Applied Relevance

Applied Relevance was founded in 2006 as a professional services firm focussed on enterprise search. We built a good practice helping customers migrate from Verity K2 based systems to Autonomy IDOL systems that replaced it. After about 2 years as an independent company servicing mostly Autonomy clients, AR was offered a contract with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help implement the Knowledge Exchange - a search based portal to help Fund staff find the information they needed to provide technical assistance to their 187 member countries. The result of this project is the AR·Semantics software. Along the way, AR met up with WAND, Inc. which produces curated foundation taxonomies for all products, all services and all industries. WAND and AR developed a partnership to market DataFacet, a jointly developed product that provides foundation taxonomies from WAND and the taxonomy management software from AR in one comprehensive product. DataFacet is our flagship product running on the SharePoint 2010 and Oracle WebCenter platforms. In addition to DataFacet, AR produces and markets AR·Semantics software which enhances specialized enterprise search applications such as MarkLogic Server, Exalead CloudView, Apache Solr and Coveo Enterprise Search. The goal of all of these products is to provide taxonomy management and rule-based tagging for enterprise unstructured content. Well, that's not entirely true. The goal of these products is to help end users find the information they need to do their jobs. AR·Semantics and DataFacet software provides the means to do that.