Verity K2 Enterprise

You already have the answers.
All you have to do is find them.

Answers to most of the pressing questions facing your business can be found hidden in the wealth of intellectual capital spread across your enterprise. They're in the files that are created and stored in your databases, content management systems, file servers, web servers and a host of other applications. They are in the paper and electronic forms that capture customer and process information, and the knowledge and experience of your customers, employees and partners.

Unfortunately, the answers must be pieced together from bits of information in various sources. Without the ability to bring together complete answers, opportunities are missed because your employees, partners and customers don't have all the information they need to identify them and take action. Business cycles are slowed by the re-creation of existing work instead of accelerated by its reuse. And otherwise good corporate citizens suffer the consequences of not complying with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and a growing list of other regulations.

Verity K2 Enterprise from TERMINALFOUR gives you the ability to bring together the complete answers you need to identify and capitalize on opportunities, accelerate business cycles, and implement and execute effective strategies.

Total Information Access & Security

Intellectual capital is spread across your enterprise in file systems, content management systems, databases, email and a wide range of business applications. In order to manage it all together, you have to be able to access it. Pre-built Verity Gateways provide this access to most common enterprise information repositories, while a Gateway Developer's Kit that allows you to build custom gateways to virtually any application. Most importantly, Verity K2 Enterprise enforces your existing security models including the native security of applications accessed by Verity Gateways' to ensure end-users can only view the information they're authorized to access.

Complete Taxonomy & Classification Capabilities

Context is what gives information its value. If you don't know how information fits into the big picture, you don't know how to use it. Verity K2 Enterprise lets you augment automatic classification with domain expertise to organize enterprise information into taxonomies that reflect the way you organize your business. It also lets your employees, partners and customers organize information to support their individual, team or project needs by creating Personal and Collaborative Taxonomies with a single click. Pre-built Verity Taxonomies are available to let you either jump start your taxonomies from scratch or enhance your existing taxonomies with industry standard categories and definitions.

High-value Recommendation

The value of intellectual capital is increased by its relationships with the people who created and use it. In fact, your most valuable intellectual capital is locked in the minds of your people. The Verity Recommendation Engine actively and passively captures the expertise of your employees, customers and partners, and uses it to automatically enhance search relevancy, recommend documents, categories and queries, locate experts and bring together communities of practice.

Integrated End-user Search & Browse

Employees, customers and partners need more than a search box to find the information they need. Verity K2 Enterprise delivers the most complete range of end-user access tools available including full-text search, parametric selection, relational taxonomies and federated search to let you implement applications that best suit your information assets, business processes and end-user needs. Verity's Open Navigation also lets you combine access tools, classification and recommendation features to dynamically lead individual users to the information they need.

Real-time Monitoring/Alerting

The addition of Verity Profiler to Verity K2 Enterprise provides your content evaluation applications with real-time monitoring and alerting capabilities. As soon as new content is created, Profiler evaluates it, determines who in your organization needs it, and automatically alerts them, whether the information is about a support case escalation, an engineering change order or an email that violates a regulatory compliance policy.

Insightful Reporting & Analytics

Real-time analysis of how people are using your intellectual capital management system allows you to see what they're looking for, what content they're using the most, and what information they're looking for but not finding. This can expose holes in your enterprise knowledge base, reveal market trends in their early stages and identify which content or information sources aren't being used and can be archived. It also gives you the insight you need to optimize both your Verity K2 Enterprise system's performance as well as that of the repositories and applications it is accessing.

Lower TCO & Higher ROI

Verity K2 Enterprise easily accommodates growth of users, information and queries while maintaining the highest levels of performance and delivering 24x7 reliability. This both protects your Verity investment and enables you to grow your business without worrying about your technology keeping up. K2 Enterprise's integrated design also delivers lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than is possible with point-solutions that must be integrated into complete solutions.