While some products employ context as a piece of what they do, Verano's Illuminar is a product wholly focused on cracking the context conundrum. The product ships on Windows 95, Windows NT, and Sun Solaris running on a Netscape Web server, with Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Server support to follow. Wrapping is the process of combining a file with its associated metadata, including file system information and context data based on profiles. To wrap, you drag and drop HTML pages, word processing documents, spreadsheets, Acrobat PDF files, and any other media files stored on your computer onto the Folder, where you are prompted to provide values for required and optional metadata tags. The resulting wrappers can be organized hierarchically by department or project to reflect the logical organization of information within a company, making it possible to carefully target and find key information.
Context management goes beyond searching in several ways.
First, it promotes efficient knowledge reuse by presenting a uniform view into all company sources and maintaining the relationship of each source to the enterprise and its businesses. Context management leverages user metadata to combine proactive delivery with context-sensitive search and discovery, offering targeted data to users with access rights and a common focus. There are three optional applications you can install in the Folder. The Context Manager lets users and managers create wrapper packages and apply access control to individual wrappers, the Profile Editor provides standard metadata tags that you can modify or supplement to suit specific organizational needs, and the Tag Set Editor creates and edits tags, tag values, and tag sets. Users can deploy profile icons on the desktops as drop targets, making it easy to wrap documents with varying metadata.