Press release: Knowledge as a success factor

The knowledge of the world doubles every ten years. Quantitative knowledge grows exponentially, qualitative knowledge linear. How can companies remain successful and identify relevant knowledge?

Transactive knowledge ensures success

It must be possible to generate, store, transfer and increase the required expertise at reasonable cost, at the right time, at the right place. Transactive knowledge is the knowledge of others’ knowledge. By sharing knowledge, knowledge systems emerge. These facilitate the coordination of the know-how and the task. Know-how must always be shared. For this, people must have the opportunity to exchange ideas. Teams with knowledge opportunists lose against knowledge-cooperative teams. There is no future for companies that can not create a framework in which expertise can be exchanged successfully.

Design of transient knowledge

Specialization is necessary through information growth. The tasks are so challenging that knowledge workers must join together in teams. They have to cooperate and share their knowledge generously. They have to form complex and dynamically changing networks. Lars von Thienen, of Noggle AG, is working on this topic with his tool “Noggle”, “In companies, many people have a lot of know-how and create new input. Even the colleague on the next floor has no access to this expertise. There is usually no time on a working day to be in conversation with colleagues and build up transactive knowledge. Digital tools have to close this gap by making knowledge searchable, identifying experts in the network, and highlighting their content. Networks and framework conditions for the economic transfer of knowledge can be created.”

Knowledge growth and its impact

Knowledge must always be acquired more quickly, correctly passed on, linked and re-produced. The world’s expertise is growing exponentially, doubling every 10 years. Every day almost 500,000 books are published. The distance between quantity and quality increases. It will be harder to find and filter relevant knowledge. Modern knowledge workers do not have to know everything about their profession, but they need to know how to find reliable expertise to solve a problem.

Press Release: Noggle app launches in Windows Store, for download in 242 countries worldwide

Noggle is proud to announce that it has worked closely with Microsoft engineers to pass its commercial and technical certification process – as a result, the Noggle app is now officially available for the Windows10 eco system. The app is listed in the Windows Store, offered for download to all 242 markets served by the store worldwide.
The app can be downloaded at the following location:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/noggle-knowledge-assistant/9nblggh6cp8k

The Noggle Knowledge Assistant app is free to download for PC.

“Being officially recognised by Windows is a big step forward for the Noggle brand. We hope that being available to download from the Windows Store will stamp our authority as a trusted and robust application, and make our document management software more accessible to a new audience of knowledge workers looking for a better way to organise and connect their content.”, Lars Von Thienen, CEO.

Introducing the Knowledge Bot for version 3.0.8

To coincide with its Windows10 debut, Noggle is marking this important step in its progress with further developments to the system, in the form of the Knowledge Bot. Running as a parallel feature to the application, the bot can talk to the user via email, Skype and telegram, and is now available in version 3.0.8.

Features of the Noggle Knowledge Assistant app:

  • Unified document search across different storage locations (Computer, Network, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, SharePoint, etc.)
  • Visual AI-guided search results and document clustering
  • Integrated document discovery from external science libraries and journals (Patent database, TED Talks, Springer Journals, IEEE and more)
  • Similarity search and instant document recommendations
  • Secure document and knowledge sharing for teams
  • “Personal Knowledge Assistant” Bot

 

Press Release: New Work and the need for cooperation

As a result of New Work, decentralization, flexibility and digital information, virtual collaboration tools are considered irreplaceable.

Cooperation and increasing individualization

Employees increasingly want to decide individually about their work process and flexibly determine their working time and location. By taking these wishes into account, companies can acquire motivated, productive and loyal employees. Cooperation and efficiency must not be impaired. Thanks to digital tools this can be achieved. Real-time communication and collaboration platforms create new forms of cooperation.

“Building, maintaining and sharing knowledge is an important part of successful collaboration”, said Lars von Thienen, who proceed this issue with his tool, “To find digital information on a decentralized basis is a task of digitization and the changing cooperation. For example, the digital knowledge assistant “Noggle” offers a way to answer this by presenting decentralized documents in a central search result and by cognitively sorting and linking knowledge. Finding knowledge and experts in the enterprise is realizable.”

Digitization of the working world

The digitization of the working world and processes is in progress. IT systems are getting better at analyzing information. Information is more and more digitally available and will remain structured over an extended period of time. In the medium term, all necessary documents will be available digitally and thus independent of the location. This is how digitization affects cooperation. An increasing flexibilisation, decentralization and de-marginalization of work is developing.

New Work – Cause and Target

New work, the fundamental change in the world of work, is idea and movement at the same time. Work-Life-Balance and the industrial internet of things find their fusion in this term. Knowledge growth, demographic change, digitalization and globalization have an impact on the society as well as on companies and are the cause of the discussion about New Work.The target is to change the design of work.

New work is the future of work. Companies need to adjust culturally and technically.

The digital transformation for digital document management

How digital document management facilitates remote working and a connected culture

In a constantly evolving digital culture, work is no longer just a place that we go, stay for the allotted amount of hours, and then leave behind on our way out of the office door. Being constantly connected to each other, both socially and professionally, always having access to the world at large, and with limitless information at our fingertips, work is now an ongoing activity; from checking our communications in bed, to working on reports during our daily commute, work is now something that we can do at unconventional times, and from wherever we happen to be.

Today, work isn’t just a destination – it’s a concept that we (often literally) carry with us, and rarely switch off from.

Catching up on just one more email…

Of course, the digital era is both cause and effect for remote working and the pressure to always be available; it is the very boom in technology itself that has enabled us to receive, undertake and submit work without physically being at our desk. Because these options are now open to us, more and more workers are carrying out tasks in their own time, either by choice or perceived necessity as an addition to their heavy workloads and packed schedules. With ever-growing demands on our attention, it’s important that the technological systems we use support and maximize our endeavors, and enable us to filter out information noise, improve productivity and enable content sharing for the best use of our time.

The actively mobile Millennials

Less from obligation and more from preference, a new generation of employees actively expects remote working and digital connectivity as part of their role, wishing to work from a location, device and timetable of their choosing – or at the least, working with the latest tools. Even if they are required to be consistently present at their place of work, this demographic will not be impressed with outdated modes of internal file organisation, or sluggish systems. Having become so familiar with innovation within their personal lives, younger workers anticipate the same crossovers in their careers, looking to harness the capabilities and convenience of gadgets, apps and software to provide them with a level of flexibility and productivity unavailable to previous generations – a mindset that employers, and the technology they deploy, need to increasingly strive to facilitate.

The win-win of connecting people and information

Remote working and increased digital connectivity isn’t just an advantage for employees; businesses also benefit from these rapidly changing ways of keeping in touch and accessing content. Workers who are empowered to find the files they need on the move, and who have the freedom to ping ideas to their peers remotely, are likely to attain higher levels of productivity, and be happier with their working circumstances. Embracing digital approaches to accessing and sharing work also attracts young, tech savvy workers who bring their own visions and fresh ideas, complimenting an existing and experienced team.

Giving workers access to office assets – wherever they are.

Workers may have less of a physical presence within the traditional office space, but what about the information we usually store within our workplace buildings and business spaces? Working remotely may suit your employees, and your organisation, but they will still need access to the host of documents and knowledge that form the backbone of your business, and that are kept on-site – even when your workers are not. By selecting the right digital document management solution, you’ll be giving your employees remote access to a solid base from which to source the information they need, research topics and receive recommendations, and share and collaborate with colleagues on ideas and projects. Even when remote working isn’t enabled, using technology to bring together files from disparate locations via a secure network will save time and effort in sourcing relevant content, and create a connected digital document management structure for interpreting information, immediate exchanges of ideas and knowledge sharing.

The digital transformation for digital document management

With worker expectations shifting, and a technology-led climate dictating the way we work and do business, organisations need to implement a digital strategy that responds to these changes and keeps pace with the marketplace.

Knowledge and information, and the documents that contain them, are still the core assets of your enterprise and its culture, and ensuring that you have the right digital approach to curating, locating, utilizing and sharing these files is key in giving your workers the data, and inspiration they need, at their fingertips.

A tech savvy workforce demands that manual processes for document management are automated, and that the ongoing boom in digital content production is supported for improved workflow efficiencies and convenient retrieval. In truth, document management is changing at unprecedented speed, and in order to fulfill the needs of your highly-connected workers, and to provide maximum efficiencies for your business, you need to be adopting the appropriate technology to harness the power of the digital working landscape and ensure you’re keeping up.

Noggle is the knowledge management solution that empowers any time working.

With an increasingly varied approach to working, you need digital document management software that keeps your workers connected to the knowledge they need, as soon as they need it. Noggle creates a secure peer network that syncs and connects disparate locations, so that locating and retrieving files is now the work of moments, not minutes, allowing employees to find and share document libraries. Search and share new depths of content for the digital age, and easily collaborate on inspiring ways of working for a truly connected culture.

To see how Noggle could make a difference to the way that you manage the files that matter, just install our free trial!

PDF Indexing Filter for native Windows10 applications

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If you observe that pdf files will not be indexed in your libraries, you need to check for the correct Windows10 PDF Filter. This How-To is only for Win10 – Check other PDF IFilter article for Win7.

PDF Indexing: How-To Inspect and Change the Filter Handlers

First, open the PDF Indexing Options panel in the Control panel:

Control Panel for PDF Indexing Options

Control Panel for PDF Indexing Options

Now click on Indexing Options / Advanced / File Types. This shows you the list of file extensions and the default Filter Handler registered for it. After installing an Adobe Filter, you can see that it adds a Handler for PDF that it calls “PDF Filter”.

Installed PDF Indexing Filter

Installed PDF Indexing Filter

Any indexing of PDF content at this point will use the Adobe Filter. To get PDF indexing working with Windows10 Store Universal Windows Platform Apps like Noggle, you need to use the native Windows10 pdf filter which is already shipped with Windows10. To change it, you need to know the GUID for the filter. The please take a note now:

What’s the GUID for the naitive Windows10 UWP PDF Filter?

Adobe GUID: {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}
Windows10 GUID: {6C337B26-3E38-4F98-813B-FBA18BAB64F5}

That’s great, but now what if you want to switch back and forth?

Default Handlers in the Registry

How do we find out where the Default handler is configured in the Registry? Open the registry editor by typing RegEdit in the windows search box and start the desktop command.

Let’s look at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.pdf. In my case, it contains a PersistentHandler sub-key. This GUID is a registry branch that defines the Filter Handler for PDFs.

RegEdit PDF Indexing GUID

Note: this GUID is not constant like the IFilter GUIDs are. Yours will be different.

So let’s take a look at {F6594…..382E} by searching for it. This brings us to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{F6594…..382E}:

RegEdit PDF Indexing Filter Handler

RegEdit PDF Filter Handler

And there it is, under PersistentAddInsRegistered, the (Default or Standard) key pointing to the Adobe GUID of {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}. As you’ve probably guessed, to change the default handler to the native Windows 10 PDF handler, we just have to replace this GUID with the Windows10 GUID: {6C337B26-3E38-4F98-813B-FBA18BAB64F5}. Let’s try it.

RegEdit PDF Indexing Windows 10 IFilter

RegEdit PDF Windows 10 IFilter

Now let’s take another look at Advanced Indexing Options:

PDF Indexing Win10 Filter activated

PDF Win10 Filter activated

And we’re on the Windows10 “Reader Search Handler” for PDF indexing with UWP apps. That’s it!

Summary

Here is how the registry entries are structured to define the default or standard handler:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.pdf
PersistentHandler
(Default)={PDF Handler GUID}
|
˅
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{PDF Handler GUID}
PersistentAddInsRegistered
{Some other GUID}
(Default or Standard)={Filter GUID} <– Change this

Finally, you can check if the correct iFilter is available via the SearchFilterView Tool:

SearchViewFilter Tool

SearchFilterView Tool with correct Windows10 Filter handler activated for the extension .pdf

 

References:

How To Article for Win7 / Desktop Apps:

Tool to check available filter components:

Technical Info from Microsoft:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd940433(v=vs.85).aspx

 

Internet of Things – Trend Research 2017

Internet of Things – Cognitive Clusters

Technology moves fast, and when predicting the future, it can be hard to keep up. Here at Noggle, we believe in analyzing what’s happening right now in order to gain a more accurate gauge of what’s realistically going to come into being over the next few months and years ahead.

To do this, where better to look for the ideas of the future than in the worldwide Patents database? Examining the concepts that have been submitted and protected now, gives a strong indication of where technology is heading and what innovations are taking place. Of course, not all inventions are created equal, and many patents won’t last the course and make it into our collective future conscious and culture – this is why we have produced a broad overview of recent patents, and picked up on recurring and common aspects and topics. By detecting clusters and averages of prevalent and frequently appearing themes, our findings represent a more likely look at the ideas that may be entering and shaping our lives in the not too distant future.

What’s next for IoT?

We used this approach to analyse upcoming trends in the field of the Internet of Things (IoT) for this year, and beyond. Below, you’ll see a cognitive map which depicts popular phrases, ideas and subjects for IoT in the current patents database.

IoT Trends Map Internet of Things – Bibliometrics

As you can see, proposals centre around “machine to machine” usage – which is the largest cluster in the centre of the map. So IoT is not for humans – IoT will be used by machines and will bring a new generation of robots to life. These robots may be communicating with lots of machines to make decisions that humans are not able to. That’s the core of IoT – IoT is the ‘brain’ for the age of machines. Compare that to our nervous system where synapses pass chemical signals between neurons. IoT are the synapses of machines. This isn’t science fiction anymore; the patent clusters prove it today.

Move forward in the cognitive map and not far away is the cluster “controlling a vehicle”. So the most expected use of IoT which, as anticipated is vehicles (e.g. cars, ships, airplanes) that will be controlled by machines communicating with each other. Think about a “traffic robot” so instead of a police officer managing the flow for cars on the road because the cars are communicating with each other, you could feed a central machine which decides about speed and stops. Expect this kind of smart traffic management to show up in all areas during the next 1-3 years.

We can then group these items together further. In the following visual, you’ll see how these clusters relate to each other with color highlighting.

IoT Trend Clusters Grouped

IoT Trend Clusters Grouped

By connecting these subjects, we can clearly see that immediate technological growth is also focused on powering and monitoring our living spaces utilizing intelligent switches, sensors for lights and water flows.

Discover trends at a glance

This graphic visualisation of submission patterns allows us to identify the following key trends for IoT:

1. Machine-To-Machine – Next generation robots:
Named clusters for ‘M2M’ with communicating ‘nodes’ including intelligent and connecting ‘chips’. Watch out for new robot-alike assistants. E.g. Alexa and Siri communicating with lots of devices in the years to come.

2. Vehicles – Say “Hello” to Smart Traffic:
Named clusters include ‘monitored vehicle’, ‘vehicle terminal’, ‘controlling a vehicle’ and ‘detects a vehicle’. So you wont drive alone anymore.

3. Lighting & Switch management – The Smart Home becoming the new normal:
Intelligent devices used to control lighting, with clusters such as ‘light sensor’, ‘lighting modules’, ‘lighting circuit’, ‘intelligent lighting’, ‘lamp light’ and phrases such as ‘smart home’, ‘smart home services’ and ‘intelligent switches.’

4. Water management:
Clusters show interest in areas of ‘intelligent water’, ‘water pipe’, ‘controls water’ and ‘equipped with the water.’

5. Data explosion in production processes:
Automation looks set to gain momentum in 2017, with clusters outlining ‘production data’, ‘production process’ and ‘production costs.’

Finally, we can expect to see massive growth in machine-to-machine data communication with new cloud based management and integration platforms for IoT coming into real world application in 2017, with an associated influx of new management software coming to market for the management of IoT devices in production processes.

Creating cognitive clusters

Already, our smart search and cognitive clustering has provided us with a valuable insight into the ideas that are being developed and registered in the world of IoT, some of which will eventually come to fruition and affect our daily lives. But how did we do it?

Any Noggle user can create similar intelligently curated trend diagrams – on this occasion, we simply issued a search request to the worldwide patent database on our chosen subject of Internet of Things. (A search could also be run on one of Noggle’s other third party databases, such as our comprehensive listing of Ted Talks, and open access science articles and research journals.)

We used a very generic and broad request in this example. You could even start with more specific terms to get more specific clusters. This produced over 6,000 patent results, allowing us to then run the ‘clustering’ algorithm – our artificial intelligence text processing automatically scans all of these search responses for similarities, in a manner which is not biased towards any specific clustering output. Within 20 seconds, we could see common ideas organised together in a way that is both manageable and interesting to evaluate. From a  conceptual view, it is a way of bringing the approach of Scientometrics to real life on every desktop. Scientometrics is no longer a theoretic topic for experts with huge machine power – everyone can start doing trend research today.

But the map is more than just an image – we can delve deeper into each cluster to examine the individual patents that have been grouped together. To explore the collection for yourself, Noggle clients can browse the IoT cognitive cluster map discussed within this article at: https://www.noggle.online/knowledgemap/internet-of-things-trends-to-watch-2017/

Increase your knowledge with cognitive features from Noggle.

Noggle knows that you want to spend your precious time learning and creating value – not searching for files. Our system creates a secure peer network that syncs and connects disparate locations, so that locating and retrieving files is now the work of moments, not minutes. Search and share new depths of content, and easily collaborate on inspiring ways of working. To see how Noggle could make a difference to the way that you manage the files that matter, install our free trial.

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IoT Trends Infographic

IoT Trends Infographic

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How to share, retain and protect knowledge in the gig economy

The gig economy. The sharing economy. The collaborative economy.

Whichever name you opt for, ‘on-demand’ employment is changing the way we work. Uncertain economic times are forcing companies to constantly strive to achieve better productivity using fewer resources, shifting to a transactional model of using increasingly short term and less demanding forms of labour with contractors and gig workers. In order to cut costs, freelancers are seen as a favourable replacement for the ongoing commitment of full time employees, with many workers now finding themselves reluctantly working in the gig economy for want of secure, skilled positions.

But by regularly exchanging lasting employee development  for ‘pay as you go’ stop gaps, are companies losing the core of the wider strategy they wish to execute – the institutional knowledge that is embedded into the long term workforce and culture of an organisation?

The risk of frequent changeovers

These frequent changeovers at the front-line of a business means there is a risk that valuable knowledge is retained only at the top of the hierarchy. With so many gig workers now coming and going through the doors, temporary workers are bringing, and taking, knowledge which is just that – temporary. Every time a new joiner leaves again, knowledge is lost. The type of knowledge that is escaping can be categorised as that which can be written down, and that which can’t, the latter being the form that will simply ‘leak’ out of the organisation without better knowledge retention activity.

As such, is this ‘knowledge leakage’ negating our interest in fully training and engaging with temporary staff, knowing as we do that they will be leaving us shortly? Without emphasising the need to retain knowledge at ground level, no matter how long a contract is, independent workers become interchangeable, learning nothing of the institutional knowledge that is integral to the entire operation.

As well as discouraging us to impart value through knowledge, it may be that the use of gig workers isn’t giving us the ultimate value in receiving knowledge in return.

“Are you a giver or taker? Success is not about competition- it’s about contribution.” by Adam Grant

Adam Grant just recently gave a TED Talk about strategies to promote a culture of generosity and keep self-serving employees from taking more than their share. Watch here: TEDTalk

Contractors may be hired in a targeted manner based on the outcomes they can produce and the skills and experience they bring, but is such a short time frame limiting our ability to truly discover and utilise the extent of what our freelancers really know?

A centralised approach does not work

In this light, a centralised approach to document management does not work – our attempts must be to encourage our gig workers to be transparent in the sharing of their knowledge. Contractors are unlikely to submit their documents and ‘give away’ their knowledge to centralised areas where they have no control over the end user who accesses it once they have moved on. In this new sharing economy, it is essential to have the best systems at our disposal for efficient accessing, retrieval and transfer of the things we know, and the documents they’re stored in.

But it isn’t just external knowledge workers that need to be given the most relevant and practical tools for sharing their information within a gig economy. The most accurate insights and information are often to be found from within the company – the internal workforce and management structure that experience the product, customers and business transactions on a daily basis, over the course of years are likely to provide the best ideas for the progression of the organisation as a whole. When continually outsourcing for strategies and concepts, businesses run the risk of actually outsourcing all of their knowledge, and overlooking the assets of their own network of thinkers and employee intelligence. Ensuring that these resources are located and utilised correctly with transparent information sharing will allow organisations to keep institutional knowledge alive during a gig economy, and leverage the knowledge of in-house and temporary workers alike.

Noggle is the knowledge management solution that works with the gig economy.

In a contractor climate, you need document management software that suits the way we do business today, not yesterday. Noggle creates a secure peer network that syncs and connects disparate locations, so that locating and retrieving files is now the work of moments, not minutes, allowing you to make the most of the knowledge brought to you by freelancers and employees alike. Search and share new depths of content, and easily collaborate on inspiring ways of working. To see how Noggle could make a difference to the way that you manage the files that matter, install our free trial.

Document management software: 5 smart ways to manage your files

5 smart ways to manage your files

We all use documents – documents that we store in a multitude of different places, and access in a variety of different ways. But having files spread across different locations can leave you struggling to find the content you need, when you need it, leading to a loss of valuable time and effort throughout your working day. Unfortunately, current document management software projects often fail.

Time spent searching for documents all adds up, so it’s important to make sure you’re managing your files as effectively as possible. Luckily, Noggle is on-hand to provide five simple solutions for getting your documents in order, and making the most of the knowledge that they contain.

1. Consider software that connects your content

Manually sorting, organising and locating files is a time-consuming and never-ending process – the best results for improved workflows are to be found by using dedicated document management software. Noggle connects all your file locations together, ensuring that whether your documents are in the cloud, on your desktop, attached to emails, or on the computer of a colleague, everything is instantly accessible, and easily shareable. No restructuring, reformatting or reorganising required.

2. Search for knowledge, not files

With Noggle, you’ll find more than just documents. Cognitive technology goes beyond simply retrieving files, but actively recommends new content based on your interests and needs. You’ll be shown a whole host of relevant and targeted results to support the content you’re searching for, and with external databases to search, such as Ted Talks libraries, you’ll discover much more than just documents.

3. Simple sharing in seconds

Once you’ve created a library of your documents, there’s a good chance that you’ll need to share your collection of files with others. But sharing a library of documents is about more than just passing on documents – it’s about communicating your knowledge, making your knowledge retrievable and encouraging others to communicate their knowledge with you. All of this without the need to share physical documents and or to manage “access rights”.

Whether you’re sending items to a co-worker, or collaborating on a project and all need access to the same material, our document management software will offer a speedy and secure way to pinpoint and distribute the files you need via shared libraries. Sharing your document libraries through Noggle promotes discussion and encourages the development of new ideas, whilst allowing you to retain complete control over who accesses and views your content.

4. See your information, visually

Documents don’t just have to be all about words. Sometimes, having a visual image in front of us can help us to better see exactly what we already know, and how to find out more. Noggle has created Knowledge Maps, acting as graphic representations of how your documents relate to each other – you’ll be able to view the bigger picture of content you’re searching for, with associated ideas and topics to support your research.

5. Get more out of a digital library

Managing your files using the latest technology will save you time and resources – you’ll be able to collate and curate your own digital library of the content that matters to you, all in a few clicks. Noggle uses intelligent processes to extract valuable information from large volumes of data, allowing you to have detailed insights and process content and knowledge in totally new ways.

With software this smart, you can let Noggle do the thinking for you.

Document management software has never been more intelligent. Noggle creates a secure peer network that syncs and connects disparate locations, so that locating and retrieving files is now the work of moments, not minutes. Search and share new depths of content and knowledge, and easily collaborate on inspiring ways of working. To see how Noggle could make a difference to the way that you manage the files that matter, install our free trial.

What is an “Insight Engine”?

Insight engine’s are cognitively enabled platforms. They interact with users in a more natural fashion, learn and progress as they gain more experience with data and user behavior, and proactively establish links between related data from various internal and external sources.

Gartner states:

“Enterprise search has dominated the way people find information, but significant changes in what is available and what is desired are gathering pace. Digital content leaders must embrace a new technology that is redefining the market around search, one that Gartner terms the ‘insight engine.’” (Source)

A cognitive insight engine provides a combination of indexing, natural-language processing, and machine-learning technologies to review an increasingly relevant corpus of knowledge from all sources of unstructured and structured data. These engines use naturalistic or visual query interfaces to deliver knowledge to people via text and cognitive visualizations.

How do searches via insight engines deliver relevant knowledge?

Insight engines extract valuable information from large volumes of complex, diverse data sources. It is important to tap into all available sources, whether they are internal or external, structured or unstructured, to provide deeper insights to users so they can make better decisions. Cognitive search provides this connection and provides comprehensive insights.

It provides contextually relevant information. Finding relevant knowledge across all available data requires cognitive systems that use natural-language processing (NLP) to understand what unstructured data from texts (e.g., documents, social media blogs, engineering reports, market research) and rich-media content (e.g., videos, scans) is about. Machine-learning algorithms help refine the insights gained from data. Trade and company dictionaries and ontologies help discover synonyms and relationships between different terms and concepts. That means there’s a lot of intelligence and horsepower under the hood of a system providing relevant knowledge or insight.

It leverages machine-learning capabilities to continuously improve the relevancy of search results. Machine-learning algorithms (e.g., collaborative filtering and recommendations, clusterization, similarity calculations for unstructured contents, and predictive analyses) provide added value by continuously refining and enhancing search results to provide the best relevancy to users.

Cognitive searches in insight engines give data-driven organizations a new generation of search functionality, enabling them to go far beyond the traditional search box and allowing users to get immediate, relevant knowledge at the right time on the right device.

Gartner Reviews for Insight Engine platforms: Gartner Vendor Reviews