Taxonomy Software Acquisition
Earley and Associates, a consultancy firm in information architecture, content management and taxonomy, has acquired Wordmap Limited, a vendor of enterprise taxonomy management software with US offices in Needham, MA, for an undisclosed sum.
Wordmap has been a leading vendor of taxonomy solutions since its launch in 2000
Wordmap Incorporated will continue to develop and support the Wordmap range of products, which includes: Wordmap Designer – a system dedicated to the management of enterprise taxonomies. Content Tagger, Intelligent Text Classifier, an advanced statistical text classifier based on Support Vector Machine algorithms. . and Navigator – a tool that takes published taxonomies from Wordmap Designer and converts them into HTML browsing interfaces.
Seth Earley, Earley and Associates’ Principal, says: “For some time we have seen Wordmap as a point of technical excellence in this field. Earley and Associates can strengthen that capability with the knowledge and experience we have of designing and compiling taxonomies. Wordmap’s customers have some of the most advanced taxonomy integrations we have seen. They are already using the software in sophisticated and highly granular indexing applications, as well as in search and navigation. Making taxonomies operational in content management and search is a focus for Earley and Associates, and we look forward to working with existing Wordmap customers as well as other large enterprises looking for a holistic approach to taxonomy – a solution rather than just a product.”
Bill Hutchison, Wordmap CEO comments: “This is a very exciting opportunity for Wordmap to make the most of its innovative technologies. Our colleagues at Earley and Associates will allow us to bring together an outstanding software product with some of the best taxonomy consulting skills in the market, and these will complement each other and help our customers achieve a much better result, more quickly. Taxonomy is about much more than technology, and we think that we now have the mix of software and skills to make taxonomy work for the enterprise.”
Seth adds “An interesting aspect of the Wordmap suite that differentiates it from many products on the market is the integration with content tagging and search. After all is said and done, taxonomies are only useful if they are presented to the user in a meaningful way. Wordmap modules have the ability to do that without a lot of API level coding. The tagging module overcomes many limitations of content management tools in presenting and applying taxonomies for tagging. The navigation module is an easy way to add faceted search (also called guided navigation) without having to acquire additional faceted search tools. In these ways, Wordmap adds value to existing search and content management environments.”
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