Active Navigation is a leading supplier of software solutions that address the needs of information-laden enterprises. Active Navigation provides software solutions that allow organisations to organise upload and retrieve the information they want, when they want it, irrespective of platform or underlying document format.

Using Active Navigation’s unique and innovative approach, organisations can intelligently manage unstructured information, enabling them to increase efficiency, reduce costs and deliver a highly quantifiable return on investment (ROI). Secure, stable, and seamlessly integrated with existing systems and infrastructure, Active Navigation’s solutions help organisations realise the benefits of their investment in SharePoint systems by maximizing usability and performance.

Active Navigation provides a range of rapidly deployable tools to assist with the classification and migration of legacy content into SharePoint Server 2007 and then enhances the search capabilities of these systems to help users to find the documents they are looking for. Active Navigation can assist with the content audit, taxonomy management, content migration and ongoing content classification.

Content Audit

Active Navigation offers Content Audit to help organisations gain an overview of what information assets they have, highlighting concepts common amongst documents, helping suggest categorisation strategies and identifying potentially duplicate documents.

Taxonomy Management

Active Navigation can be used to create metadata automatically to provide a corporate-wide perspective of large repositories to offer insight for building a relevant taxonomy from scratch. The iterative process quickly results in a comprehensive taxonomy with excellent levels of relevant coverage.

Content Migration

When faced with the task of uploading large quantities of archived content (e.g. file stores, shared drives, etc.) into a content management system, organisations often see the huge manual effort involved in assigning metadata and classification information to documents as prohibitive. This frequently means that intelligently accessing legacy data is near impossible as the migration is never undertaken or only partially completed. Active Navigation provides migration tools that takes the legacy content and then applies the relevant classifications to each piece of content to make it available for uploading into the new content, document and records management system, in conformance to the corporate Fileplan.

Ongoing Content Classification

Once Active Navigation has been used to help with the information audit and to undertake the migration of the legacy content the software can continue to be used to assist users with the classification of their documents by automatically suggesting to the users how each document, based on its content, should be classified. Active Navigation automatically extracts themes from unstructured data to enable rapid categorisation without the need for a dictionary or training sets.

Product Capabilities

• Extract meaning from documents using
  linguistic analysis.
• Generate themes and smart summaries to support rapid decision making.
• Spot where policies are failing across large information stores.
• Remove inappropriately stored information such as personal music stores, holiday photos, executables etc.
• Workflows that enable users to take control of their information.
• Removal of duplication and near-duplication so that the right information gets managed.
• Analysis of linked documents so that actions can be taken to protect link integrity.
• Design of taxonomies or file plans based upon the information to be managed.
• Generation of consistent metadata based upon document content rather than arbitrarily assigned values.
• Rationalisation of poorly managed folder structures to promote improved navigation and usability.
• Bulk information handling for fast results, increasing throughput by over 50 times against equivalent manual methods.