The document discusses how search alone is no longer sufficient to meet people's information needs, as they want to find and follow relationships between information. It argues that using metadata expressed through Semantic Web standards can provide more powerful and cost-effective solutions than traditional search, by enabling relational navigation between heterogeneous objects. The document presents several case studies of companies that implemented navigation systems using Siderean Software's products to improve information discovery for customers, partners and employees.

1. Enterprise Navigation Bradley P. Allen Founder & CTO Siderean Software, Inc. KMWorld & Intranets 2007 November 7th, 2007

3. When Search Fails RAWLSTON Here's a man who might have been President. He's been loved and hated and talked about as much as any man in our time - but when he comes to die, he's got something on his mind called "Rosebud." What does that mean? GIRL What about Rosebud? Don't you think that explains anything? THOMPSON No, I don't. Not much anyway. Charles Foster Kane was a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get or lost. No, I don't think it explains anything. I don't think any word explains a man's life. No - I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle - a missing piece. RAYMOND Throw that junk in, too. Camera travels to the pile that he has indicated. It is mostly bits of broken packing cases, excelsior, etc. The sled is on top of the pile. As camera comes close, it shows the faded rosebud and, though the letters are faded, unmistakably the word "ROSEBUD" across it. The laborer drops his shovel, takes the sled in his hand and throws it into the furnace. The flames start to devour it.

4. When Search Fails

7. From Search to Navigation Relational Navigation Concept Faceted Navigation Querying “bags of words” Slicing and dicing homogeneous objects guided by trees of concepts Navigating through a network of related heterogeneous objects Keyword Keyword Keyword Search

16. Case Study: Pharmaceuticals Medical terms, test events, reports, study authors, compounds, protocols Content repositories of pre-clinical and clinical trials, clinical test DB Navigate over clinical documents and records

18. Case Study: Financial Services People, services, products, organizations, responsibilities People directory DB, IT services DB, HW/SW product DB Navigate over products and services

21. Case Study: News Media Topics, people, organizations, sources RSS/Atom feeds from multiple Web sources, proprietary premium content Navigate over aggregated news stream filtered by editorial tagging

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