Expert System and WAND Partner for a More Effective Management of Enterprise Information

BARRINGTON, ILLINOIS--(Marketwired - Oct. 7, 2014) - Expert System US, Inc., a leader in semantic technology, and WAND, Inc, the leader in the development of enterprise taxonomies, today announced a partnership that will enable businesses to implement a simpler, more accurate organization of data and documents.


Making internal and external information more "findable" allows enterprises to be more innovative, to manage the relationships with their customers more effectively and to minimize operational risks. In summary, to make them more competitive. Expert System and WAND will increase the findability of information by effectively integrating the three most important steps in the content management process:

1. Taxonomy selection: WAND offers the biggest library of out-of-the-box taxonomies available on the market today. By selecting one of the available sector specific taxonomies, customers can speed up significantly their implementation time without compromising their specific classification requirements.
2. Automatic Classification based on the selected taxonomy: once the customer chooses the taxonomy, Expert System makes a full set of tools available to define the semantic based categorization rules and the engine that enables the automatic categorization of all the enterprise content.
3. Native integration with the most common document and collaboration systems, including Microsoft SharePoint.

The combination of the strengths of each company, on one side WAND's unique expertise in the development of enterprise taxonomies and Expert System's Cogito on the other side with its unique capability to analyze written text based on the comprehension of the meaning of each word, not only ensures the highest quality possible, but also opens up the opportunity to tackle the complexity of enterprise information management. With this new joint offer, companies will finally have full support for a faster and flexible information management process and immediate access to strategic information.


About Expert System
Expert System is a leader in semantic technology and the creators of the patented Cogito semantic technology. Cogito is based on an advanced semantic analysis engine and a complete semantic network, enabling the deep understanding of any type of text with speed and precision. Cogito exceeds the limits of conventional keyword technology and provides more effective management of the growing volume of information companies manage, turning it into accessible, usable knowledge.


The products and solutions based on Cogito offer a complete set of features including: semantic search and natural language search, text analytics, development and management of taxonomies and ontologies, automatic categorization, extraction of data and metadata, and natural language processing.


Expert System is headquartered in Chicago, with locations in Menlo Park, California and Washington, D.C.


About WAND, Inc.

Since 1983, WAND has developed multi-lingual taxonomies to improve the way our clients search and organize unstructured and semi-structured information. WAND is the premier source for industry vertical taxonomies, business taxonomies, and specialty domain specific taxonomies. The breadth and coverage of WAND's taxonomy library is unmatched, and, for years, WAND Taxonomies have been used by thousands of companies around the world to organize information.

Applications where the WAND Taxonomies are being deployed include enterprise content management, e-commerce, spend analysis, enterprise search, behavioral targeting, big data, text analytics, business intelligence, semantic technologies, local search, online yellow pages, and business directories.

WAND's taxonomy professional services practice offers taxonomy development and customization, taxonomy mapping, and data classification services. Our professional services team makes sure that our clients are successful when deploying taxonomies.

WAND is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.