Concept Searching Announces Support for Microsoft’s New File Classification Infrastructure

Jan. 17, 2010 - PRLog -- Concept Searching today announced that conceptClassifier now supports the new File Classification Infrastructure (FCI), introduced with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, that provides a standard mechanism for the automated generation and storage of document metadata. conceptClassifier can easily be configured as a plug-in for FCI to deliver automatic document classification using its unique and powerful Compound Term Processing  technology.  Fully integrated with SharePoint, Microsoft search products, FAST ESP, and Microsoft Office, the technology maximizes the strengths of the Microsoft platform to uniquely solve enterprise content and search challenges.  

“Our ISV community is alive with innovation, and we’re committed to helping our partners drive the next generation of software experiences,” said Ross Brown, Vice President of ISV and Solutions Partners for the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. “Adding compatibility for File Classification Infrastructure helps ISVs to stay ahead of the competition and give their customers access to cutting-edge technologies.”

“Concept Searching is excited to announce this integration,” said John Challis, CTO at Concept Searching. “conceptClassifier support for File Classification Infrastructure in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 provides a highly accurate, rules based, classification option for customers who need to automate the generation of semantic metadata using one or more taxonomy structures. Microsoft provided the plug-in architecture for FCI so that specialist vendors like Concept Searching can easily enhance the simple keyword-based matching engine provided by Microsoft.

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Founded in 2002, Concept Searching’s software products deliver concept based search, auto-classification, compound term metadata generation, and taxonomy management from the desktop to the enterprise. Concept Searching is the only statistical metadata generation and classification software company in the world that uses concept extraction and compound term processing to significantly improve access to unstructured information. Headquartered in the U.K. with offices in the U.S. and South Africa, Concept Searching solves the problem of finding, organizing, and managing information capital.