Teragram Launches MyGADs Enterprise Edition.Collaborative Wiki Application Combines Easy Web Editor with Direct Answers Search to Allow Enterprise Users to Create, Share and Retrieve Information on the Web and Mobile Devices CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Teragram, the leading provider of multilingual natural language processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as technologies, announced today the launch of MyGADs Enterprise Edition, a collaborative technology that allows corporate users to work together on a unique, searchable "wiki" (a popular Web 2.0 publishing and collaboration tool A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. , most notably used in Wikipedia) to share information among groups and retrieve data through multiple formats. Additionally, Teragram's patented Direct Answers technology allows members of the group to search the stored information, returning the answer a user is seeking. For example, if one asks, "What is Bob's cell phone number?," MyGADs will search the user's pages and return the actual number. This search and retrieve capability works not only from an Internet browser See Web browser. , but also from mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs, as well as through common IM services. A group of users can create a GAD Gad, in the Bible, son of Jacob and Zilpah and eponymous founder of one of the 12 tribes of Israel. Its allotment was half of Gilead; this was the land best suited to the pastoral life, which Gad, like Reuben, continued after the years in Egypt. page using a simple Web editor within MyGADs.com, and access, edit, update, search for and share documents through Internet browsers, smartphones, mobile PDAs, J2ME-enabled devices and cell phones. Much like the consumer version of MyGADs.com, launched in March 2007, MyGADs Enterprise Edition allows users to query the information they store, using a personalized question-answering search engine. As opposed to traditional search, where a user receives a set of links as a result of a search query, Direct Answers returns a simple answer. "E-mail is often an inefficient way to work together on a document or project- that's why wikis See wiki. have become increasingly popular for businesses," said Yves Schabes, Ph.D., president and co-founder of Teragram. "But, until now, there's been no real way for people to search the contents of their wikis on a mobile device. Direct Answers makes the most of the limited real estate on a mobile device, giving the searchers only the results they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . This type of technology is extremely important for today's mobile workforce. Information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. can get the most of people while they're on the road, but now they'll have the ability to search their information wherever they are." Possible Uses for MyGADs Enterprise Edition According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a March 2007 survey of 2,847 executives from McKinsey Quarterly, 75 percent of respondents use Web 2.0 technologies, including wikis, to manage internal collaboration, while 70 percent use them to interface with customers. MyGADs Enterprise Edition provides a means for enterprises to collaborate with their customers, prospects and partners. Examples of ways in which companies can use the software include: * Trip, event and tradeshow planning * Enterprise knowledge base * Customer lists * Prospect and sales tracking * Expense reports * Frequently asked questions * Corporate handbooks * Contacts and directories * Research and development * Contract management Taking the Wiki Mobile Enterprise users can create wiki pages and search their information using BlackBerrys or PDAs, J2ME- and Windows-enabled devices, and nearly all SMS-capable mobile phones. For example, using a mobile browser A mobile browser (earlier referred to as a microbrowser or minibrowser) is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA. Mobile browsers are optimised so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable on a BlackBerry device, a user can log into his or her GAD account, add information, edit documents and communicate with co-workers - all in one centralized location. All of the information that's added to the GAD is saved to the account, so changes are visible to anyone that logs in with permissions to view the GAD. For instance, if a user added information to a corporate GAD wiki about the address of a trade show, a co-worker could query the information on a BlackBerry using a simple search form. By typing a sentence, question or phrase (such as "Address for trade show") into the GAD search engine, a user would receive Direct Answers from the corporate wiki. In return, the user would receive only the address of the conference center. How It Works A GAD consists of a collection of Web pages, documents and applications shared by a group. This information can be accessed and updated by members of the group on any Internet browser or mobile device. A GAD can be kept private, or can be used to share information and collaborate within a group of users. Using a simple word processor, users can quickly and easily create Web pages, and upload documents, images and videos - without learning HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. or other complicated programming languages. Rather than working via e-mail by sending document attachments back and forth, MyGADs makes collaboration efficient: documents are centralized in a single location shared by the group, pages are easily created and viewed, records are created for each user's version (each version can be easily compared) and information can be accessed and created from a computer or mobile phone. Central to MyGADs is the powerful, patented Direct Answers search engine, which provides precise answers (instead of full documents or links) to search queries. A traditional search engine retrieves documents that match a keyword query, and presents these linked HTML documents to the searcher in ranked order. However, most end-users are not looking for documents - they want precise answers to their questions. With standard search engines, users must first sift through numerous documents to find exactly what they're looking for. Teragram Direct Answers shortcuts See Win Shortcuts. this process and turns compact devices such as mobile phones into powerful answering systems. In addition to processing information stored in a GAD, Direct Answers technology can also connect to third-party applications such as online weather data, world clocks, enterprise databases, enterprise search engines, Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. and more. MyGADs connectors (Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. or application programming interfaces) easily connect to third-party or existing information systems. For a full list of features included in MyGADs Enterprise Edition, go to: http://www.teragram.com/solutions/mygads.htm For documentation or to schedule a demonstration of MyGADs Enterprise Edition, contact us at: http://www.teragram.com/info Technorati Tags: Mobile applications, enterprise 2.0, PDAs, search engines, wiki About Teragram Founded in 1997, Teragram Corporation (www.teragram.com) is a software company that has been developing and licensing natural language and search technologies to major enterprises, publishers and search engines. The development of MyGADs required five years in R&D, resulting in three patents, with 12 additional pending. MyGADs is a natural evolution of the technologies Teragram has developed over the past 10 years, which are used behind the scenes in many major corporations. Teragram's search technologies currently help consumer-facing companies deliver faster, richer search experiences. Customers range from AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Monster.com, Sony Playstation Sony Playstation - Playstation Global, Ask.com and Yahoo!, to top news portals such as CNN.com, ABCNews.com, Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , Forbes.com, Washingtonpost.com and The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Corporation (nytimes.com). Teragram's enterprise applications drive more efficient searches and organize information in 30 languages. Enterprise deployments include government organizations, publishing, pharmaceutical, telecommunications and financial leaders, such as The World Bank, Reed Business Information Reed Business Information is a large business publisher in the United States, United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia and Asia. It is a division of Reed Elsevier. In 2005, Reed Business Information started the Quill Awards, a literary award broadcast on NBC. and MIT's Lincoln Laboratories. |
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