The MetaStar product suite is an integrated knowledge management system that enables the Information Professional to utilize the Internet for managing intellectual capital. Gateway provides the ability to simultaneously search one or more physically distributed data sources with a single query and merge the results into a one set of results. Gateway provides a Web-based query interface and customizable HTML templates for configuring both the query and search results pages. Data Entry provides the ability for users to insert, delete, and update XML data from desktop Web browsers. Once entered, records can be configured to follow a workflow process before being automatically published to the Web.
Repository is an administrative tool for capturing and managing XML data in a relational database.
Server is used to make data available for searching and retrieval on the Internet or intranet using the ISO23950 search and retrieval protocol. The server is integrated with a number of popular full-text search engines. Harvester is a software robot that gathers selected information from designated Web sites. Harvester can also retrieve any number of other file formats. Interchange is an authoring tool that generates XML documents from within Microsoft Excel .