RE: Hummingbird's Fulcrum Knowledge Server

Interesting, but I've never researched their product, Ian.

January 2000
Hummingbird launches Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit

TORONTO - Hummingbird Communications launched the Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit, a toolset that provides enterprises with the ability to construct compelling knowledge portals. The Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit is a complete solution designed so that it can also easily plug into Hummingbird's Enterprise Information Portal (EIP), scheduled for beta release next month.

"This announcement is a key part of our roadmap toward a true Enterprise
Information Portal solution," said John Bellegarde, director of product management for document and knowledge products, Hummingbird Communications.
"It not only gives users the access they need to unstructured data, but also
places this data in the most relevant context. The Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit helps knowledge workers receive the most current, complete, and significant information needed to make crucial business decisions that can determine the success of an entire enterprise."

Priced for the first time as one bundle, the Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit consists of DOCSFulcrum 3.0, Hummingbird's powerful Web-accessible enterprise knowledge management offering; Fulcrum SearchServer 4.0, the latest version of the company's information retrieval software; and the new Knowledge Manager Workstation 1.0 (KMW), which uses neural network technology to automatically create a business taxonomy. KMW adds the power of document mining to the DOCSFulcrum product family, making it easier than ever before to offer users a portal into the unstructured information stored in corporate repositories.

KMW also permits an organization to modify the generated taxonomy to conform to its own particular terminology. Automated taxonomy generation saves an enterprise the many man-hours that would otherwise be required to analyze the business knowledge from a variety of information sources such as file systems, the Web, Microsoft Exchange, and Lotus Notes.

"Organizations increasingly need to leverage their unstructured information
the same way they currently mine their structured information, hence the need for unstructured data to be organized into an easy-to-access taxonomy," said Andrew Warzecha, senior program director, META Group. "When considering the volume of disparate unstructured information available within companies, fully automated taxonomy generation becomes essential. Hummingbird's Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit is one of the first products offering this capability."

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian MacGregor [mailto:ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 1:54 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Hummingbird's Fulcrum Knowledge Server

Yesterday I received the folloewing from someone in our Mechanical Design Department:

 We are considering a site-wide document management system by Hummingbird (who recently bought PCDocs and CyberDocs). They can run on our Oracle db on the backend.
 In order to provide different look-and-feels for each 'Project' within our system (GAST, NLC, Etc.), each project will require a separate 'library' which boils down to a separate instance of the db.
 It's possible to build a system that has only one schema, but that can handle periferal data outside of the main DMS (doc mgmt sys), which may help, but the easiest way to provide each group with their own interface is through separate instances.  Your thoughts?

Is anyone using this product? Different instances, just because you want a different looking interfaces is patently absurd. Perhaps the MDD guy is mistaken. I'm waiting for him to provide documentation on the Knowledge Server.

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_slac.stanford.edu

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