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Silobreaker Offers News Intelligence Software to Corporate and Government Customers
Delivers Silobreaker Enterprise Software Suite to Swedish Armed Forces
| Source: Silobreaker
LONDON--(Marketwire - October 27, 2009) - Silobreaker, known primarily for its news search
service www.silobreaker.com, has launched a new software suite for
corporate customers and government agencies looking for more effective ways
to monitor and analyze the news behind their own firewall. Before today,
most companies and agencies had two basic options: free online news search
or paid services from news aggregators or news monitoring firms. Neither
option provides the critical analytical tools to deal effectively with the
avalanche of news content available today. Silobreaker's software offers a
new option for companies wanting to combine news aggregation with
sense-making tools and graphics.
"The problem for information workers today is making sense of the
information that they are drowning in," said Sue Feldman, IDC's VP for
Search and Discovery Technologies. "Combining access to information with
tools that allow users to explore and understand should create an appealing
product for Silobreaker. The fact that they use multiple visual tools, and
use linguistic analysis, as well as pattern recognition means that they
will be able to surface concepts and names of people, places and things.
This in turn should save workers time, and help them to discover trends and
facts in the information that they didn't know were there."
Having built powerful search and analysis capabilities, Silobreaker's
software handles text, video, images, and other multimedia content and
presents results to customers through a variety of rich graphics including
Network, InFocus, 360, Hot Spots, and Trends. The robust software also
links into existing and complex enterprise taxonomies, thesauri, languages,
and other internal data to provide customers with market and industry
specific results. To see a video presentation, please visit YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B-08b7_ukY&hd=1.
"Gaining competitive advantage or critical insight from media monitoring
can only come from how well and how fast people can analyze and
contextualize the deluge of information," said Silobreaker CEO Kristofer
Mansson. "If people want to move from 'search' to 'discovery,' then we need
to change the model of keyword-only queries, which generates page after
page of lists, requiring people to manually look through headlines to find
what they think they're looking for. Silobreaker's deep content mining and
graphic results help people find things faster, make discoveries and expand
or narrow their searches easily, without having to go back to a new keyword
search. Using Silobreaker, people can quickly get to the business of making
decisions."
Silobreaker found that professional users of www.silobreaker.com quickly
realize the value of the technology and want it tailored to meet their own
needs by incorporating specific content and criteria. One such
organization is the Swedish Armed Forces (Swedish: Försvarsmakten), who in
2008 announced their plans to build a new media monitoring system and
invited Silobreaker along with several other vendors and consultants to
develop a specific solution to meet their internal requirements. The
overall contract was awarded to Swedish integration consultant LearningWell
AB who teamed up with Silobreaker and whose Enterprise Software Suite
became the central engine for the Swedish Armed Forces' news intelligence
system.
"This well-run deployment demonstrates that an undertaking of this
complexity and magnitude does not need to become an IT project that lasts
for years," explained Peter Karlsson, Managing Director of integration
consultant LearningWell AB. "Without a doubt, the Silobreaker technology
facilitated and enabled this speedy process, eliminating many challenges
and costs usually associated with the implementation of large
IT solutions."
Silobreaker Enterprise Software Suite
Available today and fully based on the constantly tested and improving
silobreaker.com engine and interface, Silobreaker Enterprise Software
combines data fusion, search, semantic and statistical text-mining with an
intuitive web interface and powerful graphics. While traditional systems
take search requests and return lists, Silobreaker presents a network of
relationships, geographical interest points, global articles, public
conversations, as well as connections between people, companies, places,
and other entities. The software suite offers a single system that deals
with the entire work flow around news monitoring; from back-end content
aggregation, intelligent indexing, classification and storage to front-end
search, analysis, quality assurance, user collaboration and decision
support.
About Silobreaker
Combining news aggregation with killer search and rich, graphical
representations of the news, Silobreaker provides insight by finding and
reading the news like a person does. It recognizes people, companies,
topics, places, and keywords; understands how they relate and puts them
into context. The visual presentation -- similar to an online newspaper
with analytical benefits -- allows people to naturally view connections,
trends and topics or navigate deeper into personal, relevant stories.
Pulling content from ~15,000 news, blog, research, and multimedia sources,
Silobreaker's engine is focused on finding and connecting related data in
the information flow. Providing "Insight as a Service," Silobreaker's
award-winning combination of search, news aggregation, and unique graphical
representation helps everyone in their quest for knowledge and current
events. Please visit www.silobreaker.com -- tell us what you think.