Provides Context Views

Provides context specific views of information and people:

• Unparalleled capability to quickly view and access information in context.
• Unified view of all relevant information regardless of where it is stored.
• Provides concise relational view of the meaning of information for easy understanding.

• Click on the Context button to instantly see the context of your messages, contacts, tasks, calendar events and files - all in one easy step.

Provides Concept Views

Filters unwanted information. Eliminates clutter. You see what matters to you.

• Enhances your ability to find relevant information related to your taxonomy.
• Easy to manage and understand information by conceptual chunks.
• Provides a browsing tool for conceptual exploration and discovery.
• Provides conceptual views specific to projects, topics, tasks at hand, meetings, or business objectives.

• Click on the MyConcepts button to see taxonomy of concepts. The categories in your domain are structured in a hierarchy for ready access.
• Pre-built Concept Templates jump-start your knowledge organization. You can customize your Concept Map to meet your business needs.
• Gain access to a context view directly from a selected concept.

Automatic Concept Matching .

Clusters your information and saves you time in discovering the matching concepts:

• Performs automatic categorization.
• Saves time over manual classifying.
• Shows you the key phrases and matching concepts.
• Provides ability to fine tune matching by selecting key phrases and concepts.
• Learns from your decisions to better match incoming information.

• Click on the Idea button to automatically categorize an incoming message.
• You will see the ranked key phrases and suggested concepts that best match best the message content.
• ContextPortal™ matching supports cross referencing of information with multiple Concepts.

Find relevant information - see only the information that useful to your task at hand.

• All your messages are searchable in context.
• Save time by retrieving only contextually relevant information.
• See specific context to quickly judge the information.
• Directly access information regardless of its location in Outlook, your file system, or the Internet.

• Point to a message, concept, contact, task, etc…; then click on the Search button to get search results in context.
• You can perform a Context Search by concepts, roles, and information items.
• You can refine your searches by selecting From, To, and choosing information types (files, e-mails, tasks, etc.)

Provides you with rapid understanding of significant concepts and key phrases hidden in text.

• Helps you to rapidly understand the content.
• Focuses on the key phrases contained in text.
• Handles summarization in six languages.
• Creates a summary as short or as long as you want it to be.
• It summarizes e-mail messages, Word documents, web pages, Microsoft file formats, and text from the clipboard.

• Click on the Summarization button to automatically summarize an incoming message or attachment.
• Drag-and-drop a document from your file system to get a summary.
• Drag-and-drop a URL address to summarize a web page.
• Cut-and-paste any text chunk to summarize it.

Certified for Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2000XP and 2003

• Easy installation via download.

Uses standard COM Add-Ins interface to integrate with Outlook.

All metadata resides in MSDE or SQL.

Seamless integration

• Enriches your normal use of Outlook.
• Turns Outlook® into a knowledge creation and discovery application.

All functions are provided as buttons on the menu.

Familiar user interface.

• Switches gracefully between Outlook and ContextPortal™ screens.

Easy to configure your personal look-and-feel of ContextPortal™ screens.

Information in Outlook is stored only once

• The Outlook information remains intact.

ContextPortal™ does not copy any information from Outlook - it only creates indexes to them.

Use of Taxonomies

Clusters information by similarity of content for easy understanding and identification.

Provides visual navigation by concepts and sub-concepts.

Intelligently suggests where information best fits.

Automatically organizes information by concepts and similarity of meaning.

Use of Ontologies

Makes information easier to understand and interpret.

Shows how information is used in projects and tasks. Shows who uses information.

Provides context specific views of information and people.

Provides visual navigation by relationships.

Guides the users to explore what they could discover and learn.

Conveniently provides users with an ability to annotate the meaning of information.

Accommodates multiple roles for information to allow users to remember different contexts.

Understanding information

Places similar items into meaningful categories.

Shows relationships among categories

Helps users make sense of large collections of text.

Facilitates rapid understanding of documents: shows the concepts, roles and key phrases with ranking.

Supports pattern identification

Accommodates different users’ interests and expertise.