In addition to the trend toward developing products to be offered via ASPs, other trends were aggregating and filtering Harking back to the old days of creating products because the inventors figured how to conquer technical problems, we found some products that contain sophisticated technical development. Invention Machine s Cobrain has a heavy helping of semantic-based reasoning, much of which came from scientists in Russia. Cobrain is designed to help users discover if others in the same company have been probing the same concepts and also supplement content on Web sites. In a similar vein, Autonomy s Knowledge Management Suite 2.0 examines a user s documents as well as email, Lotus Notes files, news feeds from the Web to discern the employee s area of expertise. It then presents relevant documents.
Autonomy draws on neural network and pattern recognition technologies.
Pictron Inc. s Video Gateway enables image and video searches on the basis of the image, not the tags. The founders are veterans of Lockheed. Those with publishing as well as Web publishing operations might want to look at Worldweb.net s Xpress, which slipstreams the process of putting Quark and other documents on the Web. A very slick looking product, Inxight Site Lens Studio creates attractive site maps that let users find desired content. The show was replete with new products everywhere.