Chiliad Discovery/Alert
Data Access & Security
Discovery/Alert can search and analyze across enormous repositories of geographically distributed unstructured and structured data as if all the resources were in a single repository on the user’s own computer. Unlike the typical scenario where users have to log in and authenticate in each stovepipe application, Discovery/Alert provides a sophisticated security layer with single sign-on for simultaneous access across all of the resources that a user is authorized to view.
Discovery/Alert supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and other industry-standard methods for secure sign-on and authentication. Through integration with U.S. government-certified “trusted guard” systems, Discovery/Alert supports secure information sharing among domains with differing security levels, enabling true “all source, all way” information sharing.
Organizations that have existing investments in search engines, content management systems and databases don’t need to remove or change those applications. Discovery/Alert can index content without disrupting those systems, and can even perform analysis on items retrieved from those systems using its “smart federation” capability.
Discovery/Alert processes documents in several hundred file formats, file systems, messages, data feeds such as RSS, HTML, and relational database management systems. The Discovery/Alert Web Spider can monitor both intranet and Internet web sites. Flexible application programming interfaces (APIs) allow integration and secure searching of data managed in any content repository.
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Peer-to-Peer Architecture
Chiliad’s cooperative peer-to-peer processing architecture allows organizations to distribute instances of the search, indexing and analysis engine in a network of cooperating nodes across local or remote distributed networks. Each instance of the engine on any operating system and hardware platform is an intelligent node among a network of cooperating nodes. Each node may serve as a federator, handling query interaction with a user, and as a provider, executing search requests. With appropriate access permissions, any node can query any combination of other nodes on the fly, and a node can function both as a federator and a provider simultaneously. Highly optimized network communications ensure that nodes can cooperate with minimal network load... read more
Distributed Search
Discovery/Alert™ provides a comprehensive search capability that works seamlessly across large amounts of structured and unstructured data and consistently delivers the quality results you need to connect the dots.
Most full-text retrieval systems are optimized for precision at the expense of recall because the underlying technology is not discerning enough to do both and still avoid “false positives.” This means that, sooner or later, someone in your organization is going to miss some critically important information. Fortunately, Discovery/Alert™ is optimized for both precision and recall, and has been found in objective benchmarks to deliver the most complete and accurate results consistently... read more
Data Access & Security
Discovery/Alert™ can search and analyze across enormous repositories of geographically distributed unstructured and structured data as if all the resources were in a single repository on the user’s own computer. Unlike the typical scenario where users have to log in and authenticate in each stovepipe application, Discovery/Alert provides a sophisticated security layer with single sign-on for simultaneous access across all of the resources that a user is authorized to view... read more
On-the-Fly Concept & Entity Recognition
Most search and text mining systems extract “entities” such as people, places, organizations and other definable things from unstructured text at the time new items are processed and indexed. Discovery/Alert™ takes a more comprehensive approach and automatically recognizes more than 20 different types of concepts and entities, and the system is extensible so new concept “recognizers” can be added at any time. Most importantly, Discovery/Alert™ performs concept recognition dynamically, at query and analysis time, to provide users with the most contextually-relevant concepts focused on the most relevant portion of each document... read more
Filtering & Alerting
Reliable and accurate filtering of new data is of critical importance in both business intelligence and national security. The Discovery/Alert™ Filtering and Alerting Service is the most comprehensive and scalable system available for tracking and receiving alerts about new data in real time. Filtering agents are similar to queries that are executed against each incoming item; but filtering occurs instantly on new items before indexing to provide the highest performance, scalability and timeliness... read more
Discover Knowledge
The Discover Knowledge service is an integral component of the Discovery/Alert™ platform used for navigation and discovery. When a user performs a search or other action that creates a result set, the Discover Knowledge service uses the important, contextually-relevant concepts to construct a hierarchical “knowledge map” for the user to browse and explore. This structure is very efficient for finding information about a specific topic, but more importantly, as the user navigates through the knowledge map, connections among key concepts come into focus more clearly, helping to discover previously unknown connections and to literally connect all the dots... read more
Faceted Navigation
Discovery/Alert™ Faceted Navigation provides the ability to rapidly “slice and dice” documents and other records based on metadata from structured databases or extracted from unstructured documents.
For example, a manager searching a database of resumes for candidates to staff a project might start her search by retrieving all of the Java programmers in the system. She might then use faceted navigation to explore and analyze the result set, experimenting with different “facets” of the candidates such as years of experience, location, security clearance, current assignment status, willingness to travel, etc. With each click on a facet, the result set is reduced until only results that meet all of the requirements are left... read more
Discovery/Alert Geospatial Service
Location is a powerful organizing concept for information. The Discovery/Alert™ Geospatial Service leverages this power by providing the ability to display data such as entities and search results on a map. This service uses location information extracted from unstructured or structured content such as city, state or zip code, enabling users to see geographic information in a graphical way to help see patterns or make connections that might not otherwise be obvious. An embedded geocoder module can assign latitude/longitude properties to geographic entities and other items so that those items, and/or the documents in which they were referenced, can be displayed in a variety of geographic map interfaces... read more
Integration & Customization
Discovery/Alert™ provides a full complement of tools to customize and integrate its context analysis and knowledge discovery software capabilities with other products. Available tools range from simple modifiable templates to XML data exchange formats to a rich Java API. With these tools customers, systems integrators and Chiliad Professional Services can integrate and embed complementary software products into Chiliad's knowledge discovery system or embed Chiliad's software into other software products... read more
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