Turn your Search Engines into Knowledge EnginesThe BA Insight Knowledge Integration Platform enables organizations to transform SharePoint into a powerful unified information access platform for rapid implementation of search-driven applications at a fraction of the cost, time, and risk of alternatives. With our platform, enterprises deliver a remarkable user experience, auto-tagging, and connectivity to a wide variety of systems. It enables IT agility, removing infrastructure dependencies and roadblocks from application projects while leveraging existing systems.

There is full flexibility in how the KI Platform can be purchased and deployed. For example, organizations at the beginning of a unified information access project can leverage the full platform for maximum benefit and value. Alternatively, each of the platform engines can be acquired and implemented separately to augment existing technology or support a phased approach that is aligned with an organization’s growing needs.

Content Connectivity Engine - provides secure connectivity to a wide variety of content systems, enabling unified views of all knowledge assets

BA Insight Knowledge Integration Platform

User Experience Engine - drives remarkable userexperiences for finding and exploring knowledge or experts via an extensible engine and a library of powerful components

The BA Insight Knowledge Integration Platform consists of three software engines that provide a comprehensive set of capabilities:

Content Classification Engine - increases findability using auto-tagging, metadata generation, and text analytics

We help IT organizations implement enterprise search FASTER, at a LOWER COST, and with LESS RISK...all while providing a REMARKABLE user experience!

The user interface makes a remarkable difference in the effectiveness of search, and tailored search applications need tailored user interfaces. Yet the effort and expertise required to do this well can be so daunting that many organizations don’t undertake it, or fail altogether. That’s why BA Insight has created software that reduces the risk and cost of crafting these applications.

The User Experience Engine enables the creation of compelling and effective user interfaces for search-driven applications via an extensible engine and a library of powerful components. The User Experience Engine provides deep and broad capabilities for data visualization, presentation, and interaction within the Knowledge Integration Platform.

Smart Previews provide visual images for quick recognition and exploration of relevant information, including features for exploring information including search inside, hit mapping, hit highlighting, and contextual actions such as copy, email, and download. This is based on Smart Preview Generation, which understands the format and structure of many file types and creates data structures for navigating inside documents and connecting across documents.

Exploration and Discovery

provide visual controls for intuitive navigation: drilldown, refinement, and exploration, with many different presentation elements such as multi-select tree refiners, graphs, and collapsing and dynamic refiners. Searching inside refiners allow users to navigate across large amounts of data quickly and with great precision.

Workspace and Content Assembly

lets you tag, remember, and share content from a search session, and then create composite documents from this. For example, users can create Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, and ZIP files using search-derived content while preserving images and native formatting.

Conversational Search Controls

create search experiences that allow relevancy to be determined on-the-fly based on user intent and context.

Dynamic Result Transformation

updates the result set, mixing in dynamic data on the fly and reordering or translating the values to deliver the best result for each user.

Content Enrichment and Metadata Creation

Consistent, quality metadata is thekey to overcoming the challenge of structuring, managing, and exploiting unstructured content.

The Content Classification Engine increases the findability of content

through the creation and normalization of metadata. It generates and extends managed metadata and provides a collection of powerful text analytics capabilities within the Knowledge Integration Platform.

Smart Mapping provides automatic mapping of metadata properties; dataset connectors that support lookup and content normalization; and flexible content processing such as on-the-fly tag creation enabling sophisticated content enrichment scenarios.

Scripting enables the manipulation of metadata fields, modification of content, and extension of property mapping in any way desired.

AutoClassification provides automatic tagging and classification of content based upon a taxonomy, using a robust rules engine.

Entity Extraction supports dictionary, rules, or regular-expression-based creation of metadata from the contents of a document.

CONTENT CLASSIFICATION ENGINE

The Content Classification Engine enriches content using text analytics and semantic processing. It creates metadata either in-place, as managed metadata columns in SharePoint lists and libraries, or during indexing, as managed properties in the search index. This allows unstructured and structured content from across the enterprise to be securely accessed, cleaned, normalized and enriched to a consistently high standard.

USER EXPERIENCE ENGINECraft Search-Driven Experiences that People Love to Use

Secure Connectivity to Enterprise SystemsCONTENT CONNECTIVITY ENGINE

Capturing content is fundamental to search - if it’s not crawled and indexed, you can’t find it! The Content Connectivity Engine provides secure, high-performance crawling and indexing for a wide variety of content sources. It manages sophisticated security scenarios, maps security entitlements from source systems into the search

system, and ensures that results are trimmed to expose only the content the user has access to.

The Content Connectivity Engine acts as a scalable hub for information integration with a set of components and capabilities plugging into it.

Web Services Connectors

integrate securely with complex business systems without installing software on production systems.

The Universal SQL connector toolkit

supports secure indexing for any SQL-based source system with the flexibility to tailor the way database content is composed and transformed into indexed items.

Smart Security Mapping

provides powerful security integration across the heterogeneous security schemes used by different source systems. ‘Early binding’ security makes it possible to deliver secure, high-performance search solutions.

Targets provide a mechanism to direct content into different places, in addition to search indexing. For example, content can be copied to a SharePoint list, along with its metadata and security settings.

MultiSearch enables end users to search against multiple search engines (back-ends) simultaneously and return aggregated results within a single search interface.

Federated Backends connect to a variety of different search engines, translate queries into the supported query syntax of each, manage different security and relevance models, and incorporate content that can’t be centrally indexed.

Connectivity to Line of Business systems requires a balance of high performance and light touch, rigorous security and easy administration across a wide range of sophisticated source systems. BA Insight has a proven architecture, a wide range of supported connectors, and extensive experience to ensure secure, successful search deployments.

Numerous Global 5000 enterprises across various industries have deployed the BA Insight Knowledge Integration Platform to transform the way they find and access information, helping them increase innovation, improve productivity, grow revenue, and reduce costs. We serve visionary organizations such as ACE Hardware, ADP, Apache Corporation, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, DLA Piper, Dow Chemical, and Pfizer.

Customers

We have adopted BA Insight as part of our architecture for delivering information. The combination of Apache’s existing technology with BA Insight’s connectivity and user interface components is helping our IT organization deliver efficient, powerful tools that match the way the business would like to see their work performed.

Travis Osborne, Director, Information Management at Apache

About BA InsightBA Insight provides software that enables organizations to transform SharePoint into a powerful unified information access platform for rapid implementation of search-driven ap-plications at a fraction of the cost, time, and risk of alternatives. Our customers leverage our platform to deliver a remarkable user experience, auto-classification, and connectivity to a wide variety of systems. We serve visionary organizations such as ADP, Chevron, Deloitte, Ford Motor Company, Pfizer, and The Procter & Gamble Company.

Capabilities of the Knowledge Integration Platform

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User Experience Engine

UI Controls • Smart document preview• Thumbnails• Workspace• Search Inside document• Search Inside refiner• Search Inside results• Hit highlighting, Hit Map• Document library preview• Hover panels• Value Mapping• Refinement item: list, pie chart,

and histogram views• Tree: term store taxonomy and the

site tree view• Date Picker: single and double

calendar views• Slider, histogram, combined

histogram and slider• Export results• Saved Queries and Query history

Content Assembly• From: all sources and supported

formats• To: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Zip

Customization & Extensibility• Javascript • Powershell• Custom UX controls• Custom linguistics• Data ‘mashup’

HTML 5.0 Cross-Browser Support

Content Classification Engine

Ontology Models• SKOS• RDF• ARTX• SharePoint• CSV

Customization & Extensibility• Powershell• VBScript• Web Services• Custom linguistics

AutoClassification• AutoTagging• Entity Extraction• Regular Expression

Matching• Extended tags• Automatic Content Type

Assignment

Content Connectivity Engine

Metadata and Crawling • Automated Metadata

Mapping• Associated Crawls• DataSet Lookup• Scripting• Target to User Profile• Target to SharePoint List

Content Platforms• EMC Documentum • EMC eRoom• HP TRIM (Context) • IBM FileNet P8 • IBM Content Manager • IBM Connections • Objective • OpenText LiveLink/RM • OpenText Hummingbird • Oracle UCM / Stellent• Lotus Notes Databases • Xerox DocuShare

Security Models• AD• ADFS• Claims (SAML/ADFS)• OAuth• Role + Attribute-based

CRM Systems• Salesforce.com• Microsoft Dynamics CRM • Microsoft Dynamics CRM

online• Lexis/Nexis Interaction CRM• Any SQL based CRM system

SQL Database• Microsoft SQL Server• MySQL• IBM DB2• Oracle Database

Hybrid Cloud Deployments• Cross-version• Geo dispersed• Interleaved results• Combined Refiners

ERP and Portal Systems• SAP • SAP DMS• IBM Websphere• Oracle WebCenter

Interaction (PlumTree)

Mailbox and Archiving Systems• Microsoft Exchange • IBM Lotus Notes • Symantec Enterprise Vault

(eVault)• Symantec eVault File

Archive • Microsoft Exchange Public

Folders • HP Autonomy Enterprise

Archive Solution (EAS, aka Zantaz)

Customization & Extensibility• Powershell• VBScript• Custom content targets• Custom connectors• Universal SQL toolkits• Web Services

Search and Cloud Systems• Office 365 – SharePoint• Office 365 – Exchange• Google Drive• SharePoint 2013• SharePoint 2010• SharePoint 2007• FAST Search for SharePoint• Microsoft Search Server

Practice Management Systems• Aderant • Autonomy Worksite/iManage• Elite / 3E• KnowledgeMill OnePlace • LegalKEY• NetDocuments• PLC/PracticalLaw• ProLaw• RealPractice