John-Henry Gross Sr. Product Marketing Manager

1. John-Henry GrossSr. Product Marketing Manager Effective Knowledge Organization Across All Media Types

2. THE BIG CHALLENGE Does your organization suffer from information overload? • The Symptoms • Frustrationof being unable to access relevant information … • Fearthat something important has been overlooked … • Failureto read, process and meaningfully act because of too many related pieces of information – The Gartner Group • The Cause • Growing volume • Many sources • Multiple media formats • Many languages • Stored in different silos • Distributed across the enterprise • Secured with complex access rights

3. THE CURE • Information infrastructure that … • Accesses all your information assets • Organizes all your data for easy browsing • Provides a single point of access to all your information • Scales for enterprise-wide deployments • Integrates readily within any environment • Respects enterprise security

4. Utilize information to make better decisions and improve performance Portal or other Applications Text & Audio Organize your information to make it more accessible Text Search Video Search Categorization Asset Management Profiling Editing Publishing Video & Image Access and monitor information repositories Enterprise Content EDMS • GroupWare • RDBMS • File Systems • Web • XML • Video • Image COMPLETE INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE

5. Relational Databases Multi-media Content is Everywhere Newsfeeds AudioSpeech Office Documents Paper Group Ware Uniform Access toAny Data, Anywhere Document Management Intranets / Internet/Extranets Experts

6. Result Integrate with all your repositories easily and quickly S Y N C H R O N I Z E R S • Making the connection • File Systems - NT and Unix • RDBMS – Oracle, SQL, Sybase, Informix, ODBC • Internet – Internet Spider • Groupware – Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange • Document Management – Documentum, FileNET • FileRoom – Paper-based documents • Toolkits to make your own

7. VIDEO C A P T U R E • Capture from any source • Analyze structure • Capture standard metadata • Add custom metadata • Capture speech and closed caption text • Upload to database or XML file

8. Result Removes security as an obstacle to information access S E C U R I T Y • Strong authentication support • Distributed - single log-on across multiple instances • Cross repository log-on • Search results include only the information a user has the right to see

9. THE AUTHOR WROTE “Rapidly expanding credit unions” YOU SEARCH FOR “Fast growing banks” RETRIEVALWARE RETURNS “Rapidly expanding credit unions” and all other relevant material Result Complete and accurate results C O N C E P T S E A R C H Bridges the gap between knowledge seeker and knowledge provider

10. Result Highest level of recall so you don’t miss anything P A T T E R N R E C O G N I T I O N Pattern Recognition • Text • Typos • Misspellings • Multiple spellings • OCR errors • Supports Image & Video • Shape • Color • Texture

11. Result Language isn’t a barrier to good search G L O B A L S O L U T I O N S Globalization and localization very visible requirements in today’s global economy and will become only more important in the future. Need to search in multiple languages and across languages

12. Result Easy to administer categories with the highest quality content C A T E G O R I Z A T I O N & P R O F I L I N G • Multimedia content in directories based on a taxonomy • Supports browsing • Supports focused search • Can associate subject experts with categories

13. IMAGE RETRIEVAL • Metadata – text search • Visual Search X X

14. VISUAL SEARCH • Functions needed to reduce an image to a condensed descriptor called a feature vector • loading, saving, cutting, pasting, rotating, scaling, dithering, quantizing, enhancing, analyzing • Indexing, retrieval, data association, and other feature vector database management operations need to be available in a form that transparently supports both client/server and local database access. • A Feature Extractor is an image analysis tool that distills the key characteristics of an image. • Color • Shape • Texture • Developer created

15. Image Search

16. VIDEO C A P T U R E • Capture from any source • Create a storyboard of the video automatically • Annotate for future searches • Capture speech and closed caption text • Upload to database or XML file

17. VIDEO E D I T • Annotate Clips and Frames • Creation of Edit Decision List & exporting • Create bins • View rough cut previews • Modify Storyboards And Create New Assets

18. VIDEO B R O W S E Intranet or Internet-based Visual search

19. MULTIMEDIA SEARCH

20. E N T E R P R I S E V I D E O Business Challenges INCREASED DEMAND • Globally dispersed employees need consistent communication and training • Travel security issues and costs • Video Applications are growing • Earnings announcements • Executive addresses • Intra-company meetings • Employee education • Customer training • Product launches • Customer service • Partner training • B-to-B collaboration

21. E N T E R P R I S E V I D E O Business Challenges DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH • Hard to integrate with other materials and media • Retrieving video is time consuming and cumbersome

22. ABC NEWS – High Velocity Searching PROBLEM • 800 deadline-driven researchers, reporters and archivists need to find the right things fast SELECTED SOLUTION BECAUSE • Advanced retrieval and ability to handle multimedia • Concept search’s ability to find all relevant materials • Needed a search engine to power MARS (Media Archive and Retrieval System), which houses program transcripts, videos, and background papers on 1.1 million items BENEFITS • More comprehensive and accurate material from archives for news production

23. SANDIA NATIONAL LABS PROBLEM • Needed a solution to convert their video libraries to digital format; that could be indexed for search SELECTED SOLUTION BECAUSE • Screening Room enables their users to quickly and accurately search for and access relevant video assets from a standard Web browser using either a desktop or laptop computer BENEFITS • Reduced labor, time and travel costs associated with video management • Improved access to video content resulting in more effective training and near-instantaneous delivery of relevant video assets • Ability to create multimedia reports • Field employees can search and view videos on laptops

24. NASA PROBLEM • NASA’s Johnson Space Center is using Convera’s Screening Room to manage video content originating with Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions to increase knowledge sharing among researchers. SELECTED SOLUTION BECAUSE • It captured, encoded, archived and managed to provide real-time and post mission analysis and re-purposing of the video over the NASA intranet. • Allows researchers to easily search for and access relevant video assets from a desktop or laptop computer anywhere in the world. BENEFITS • Reduces the time to get critical content on the web • Makes archive and search easy.

25. U.S. Department of Energy/Honeywell PROBLEM • U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) archive of photographs, x-ray images, weapons materials standards and other information. Multimedia search functionality for a database of over 10,000 weapons materials standards documents, enabling weapons engineers to quickly and easily find information critical to the development of weapons • Inventory of over 13,000 hi-resolution photographs of the people, weapons and facilities SELECTED SOLUTION BECAUSE • The ability to search across both text and image files from a central point. • The ability of the system to include technical terms in the search even when other terms are used. BENEFITS • Reduces the time to get critical information to decision makers

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