Smartlogic Semaphore Limited

Smartlogic Semaphore Limited is a Software company. Smartlogic specialises in information retrieval software concentrating on adding Semantic capabilities to enterprise search and content management systems. The company's trading name is Smartlogic. The Smartlogic semantic middleware platform is called Semaphore.

Smartlogic Semaphore Ltd was founded in 2007 following a management buy-in of APR Smartlogik, an infomation management specialist. Smartlogic has offices in London and Cambridge in the UK. The company was founded on the idea of using controlled vocabularies such as taxonomies and ontologies to drive automatic classification of information as well as search navigation. This approach delivers user Findability, enhances an information asset with metadata according to a standard, improves the accuracy of search and enables content integration.

The company's product - Semaphore is agnostic to the search engines or content management systems that the client has deployed and seeks to augment and enhance these existing investments. Semaphore is used by organsations that need to harness the information asset. Example users include NASA, National Health Service, ABN Amro, Bank of America and Office of Public Sector Information.

The product is fully integrated with Microsoft Sharepoint, Google Search Appliance, Apache Solr, FAST ESP and many other information management platforms. Reference-able customers of Semaphore are large corporations, government agencies and NGO's who have in common a high regard for the value of their information assets and who need to harness the information that these assets contain.

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Awards
Best Integrated Product - 2007 - Google

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See also

Information retrieval
Enterprise Search
Information Management
Middleware