Each entry in the knowledge base contains metadata identifying the context, author, information type, description and location. This program also includes a bundled search engine for retrieving knowledge and an agent for delivering new knowledge. Users tailor their own views of the information, while agents alert them to new information for adding to their personal folders. The Excalibur product line tends toward classic document management, but with a twist because it incorporates digital images as well as text. FileRoom scans images for storing graphs, diagrams, handwritten comments and signatures.
Users can access both the image and the text of a scanned document from a single query.
Excalibur touts its Internet Spider as the industry s first multimedia Web crawler. Using individual profiles, it searches for topics of interest and brings users both internal intranet information and external Internet information. It can also automatically add new articles to the knowledge base. Corporate Navigator is different from most other knowledge management products in that Story Street has focused on sorting through the World Wide Web to identify and catalog resources of great business value. They have cataloged over 100,000 Web site addresses that are relevant for specific business uses, primarily, though not exclusively, in the financial services industry.