Concept Searching Announces Launch of New Webcast Series

Concept Searching, the global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, taxonomy management software, and developer of the Smart Content Framework™, is pleased to announce a new webcast series focusing on metadata management in SharePoint and Office 365. The series was developed to provide viewers with an understanding of the issues of metadata management in Microsoft products, and how to leverage the native features from a best practices point of view.

The bulk of the series is non-product related, and offers viewers an understanding of both the business and technical approaches that must be understood to fully leverage metadata in either an on-premise or a cloud environment, specifically Office 365. These webcasts fill a need in the marketplace to educate viewers on the best approaches and pitfalls relating to enterprise metadata management.

Organizations are now realizing the importance of metadata and how capture, reuse, and management can drive search, records management, security, intelligent migration, text analytics, social networking, collaboration, and eDiscovery, FOIA, and litigation support.

Concept Searching will be adding to the series on an ongoing basis. The webcasts currently available include:

Microsoft SharePoint – Native versus Non-native Solutions
This webcast enables viewers to obtain an overall understanding of why organizations should be evaluating the reasons to fully leverage the capabilities of an information management system, such as SharePoint 2010, 2013, and Microsoft’s ‘off-premise’ platform Office 365. In addition, the business benefits are discussed, and the question that many decision makers at the executive level ask their IT staff “do we really need a ‘tagging’ solution?” is answered.

Microsoft SharePoint Term Store and Managed Metadata Services
This webcast looks at how the SharePoint Term Store and Managed Metadata Services deliver advanced foundation capability above and beyond existing tagging solutions. It examines what Concept Searching provides to enable the streamlining of manual SharePoint processes, to drive the full utilization of native SharePoint enterprise capabilities.

conceptClassifier for SharePoint Differentiators
This is a product webcast about conceptClassifier for SharePoint, and highlights three important capabilities that set Concept Searching technologies apart from others. It provides advice to organizations that are evaluating integrated taxonomy management solutions for SharePoint.

conceptClassifier for SharePoint Online & Office 365 Technology Differentiators
conceptClassifier for Office 365 is currently the only solution available that fully addresses information governance in an Office 365 or hybrid environment. This presentation explains how conceptClassifier for Office 365 interacts with Microsoft’s ‘off-premise’ platform Office 365, and provides an understanding of why conceptClassifier for Office 365 addresses key challenges that organizations are evaluating before moving to the cloud.

Searching with Metadata and Searching without Metadata
This webcast looks at how Concept Searching’s technology platform can be used to deliver high- precision search results, while at the same time build a managed metadata environment.

Concept Searching’s conceptTaxonomyManager
In this webcast, using conceptTaxonomyManager, various paths that have been taken by organizations in an effort to create a managed metadata environment are compared and contrasted. These approaches not only increase data transparency and findability, but also enable the implementation of an automated information governance compliance framework for organizations.

“We are pleased with the ability to publish these webcasts to provide additional insight into SharePoint, Office 365, and focus on the importance of metadata,” said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching. “These webcasts were designed to answer our most frequently asked questions and the methods to build a managed metadata repository. They cover not only the technical issues but also the business benefits. We hope they are of value to the SharePoint community as a whole,” he concluded.

Future webcasts will include in-depth examinations of the business and application benefits that can be achieved with enterprise metadata management in the Microsoft environment.