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WAND helping Information Builders analyze consumer sentiment. 4/17/2012 We are proud to have our technology as a key component to Information Builders' WebFocus Magnify consumer sentiment analysis capabilities: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/information-builders-adds-sophisticated-sentiment-analysis-capabilities-to-its-strategic-business-intelligence-platform-2012-04-17 WAND Building and Construction Management Taxonomy 4/11/2012  WAND has always had a Building and Construction Taxonomy that covered equipment, supplies, and services. But, managing construction involves much more than just equipment and services. Today, we are proud to announce that we are releasing a comprehensive WAND Building and Construction Management Taxonomy that goes beyond equipment and supplies and covers construction documents, construction Free General Business Taxonomy for SharePoint 2010 4/3/2012 Do you have a SharePoint 2010 project and wondering how to get started with managed metadata? WAND, as announced in March 2011 on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog, provides a free general business taxonomy for users of SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint Online.  Download it here and instantly get started with taxonomy content in your term store to begin to tag documents today: http:// WAND is going back to school: Announcing the WAND Higher Education Taxonomy 3/7/2012 WAND Higher Education Taxonomy I'm pleased to announce another new addition to our taxonomy library designed specifically for the higher education market.  The WAND Higher Education Taxonomy has 959 categories and 233 synonyms covering topics of importance to a college or university.  The taxonomy covers academics, university administration, admissions, athletics, campus transportation, WAND Records Retention Taxonomy 3/1/2012 WAND Records Retention Taxonomy WAND has many other taxonomies than have been mentioned on this blog to date so I'm going to start posting about some of those taxonomies so they can be easily found here.  The first one on the list is the WAND Records Retention Taxonomy.  WAND's Records Retention Taxonomy was created by organizing all the common document types that companies must keep as WAND Taxonomies and WAND DataFacet Automatic Tagging on Microsoft Pinpoint 2/21/2012 Solution pages for WAND Taxonomies and for the DataFacet Automatic Tagging Engine are now up on Microsoft Pinpoint: DataFacet Automatic Tagging Engine on Microsoft PinPoint:  http://bit.ly/Ap0erz WAND Taxonomies on Microsoft PinPoint: http://bit.ly/xUajQ6 Pre-built taxonomies and automatic tagging are powerful add-ons for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint online.  Read why you should WAND Project Management Taxonomy now available 2/1/2012 Many companies are running project management documents in their ECM or document management system, including SharePoint 2010.  Just like any other documents, these need to be tagged with relevant metadata so that project managers can have effective search, stay organized, and stay productive.  WAND has created a taxonomy just for this purpose. Project Management Taxonomy The WAND Project 6 reasons why you need a taxonomy for your SharePoint 2010 initiative 1/30/2012 Managed Metadata is the most important feature you can know about if you have a SharePoint 2010 document management project.  You should not do a SharePoint 2010 ECM project without taxonomy and managed metadata.    Here are six reasons why: 1) Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it: Enterprise content management projects often fail due to poor search. Taxonomy based WAND Oil and Gas Taxonomy 1/26/2012 We are proud to announce the release of our brand new Oil and Gas Taxonomy.  The WAND Oil and Gas Taxonomy contains 1513 terms with 270 synonyms and includes both upsteam and downstream topics for the oil and gas industry including exploration, drilling, petroleum recovery, refining, gas processing, geology, equipment and supplies, environmental, safety, and more.   WAND Oil and Gas WAND Skills Taxonomy 1/20/2012 WAND has been doing a lot of work in SharePoint 2010 since it launched providing taxonomies for the managed metadata service to help companies tag library items more effectively.  However, we noticed that managed metadata can also be used to help tag My Sites profiles so we created a skills taxonomy just for that purpose. WAND Skills Taxonomy The WAND Skills taxonomy has over 1400 different Real Estate Taxonomy now available from WAND 1/3/2012 Happy new year!  I'm very excited about 2012 and think it is going to be a great year for taxonomies.   2011 saw a ton of growth in interest and awareness of taxonomies, much of this driven by adoption of SharePoint 2010 and the term store feature, but certainly other applications as well.  I'll post more about this separately, but for now, I want to focus on the first new taxonomy launch of the Legal Taxonomy now available from WAND 12/1/2011 Our taxonomy team has just completed the most recent addition to the WAND Taxonomy Library with the release of the WAND Legal Taxonomy. The Legal Taxonomy includes 745 terms, with 136 synonyms, designed to help a company or a law firm organize legal documents and concepts including matters, area of law, legal document types, and more.  WAND Legal Taxonomy Adding relevant legal metadata to Image and Data Manager in Australia mentions WAND Taxonomies and DataFacet 11/17/2011 Thanks to Image and Data Manager (idm.net.au) in Australisa for the nice article about WAND Taxonomies for SharePoint 2010  and DataFacet Automatic tagging engine for SharePoint 2010 As mentioned in the article, and for our friends in Australia, DataFacet will be featured at the Share 2011 conference in Sydney on November 28-29th at the PowerMark stand. http://idm.net.au/article/008750- WAND Mining Taxonomy Released 10/24/2011 I am happy to announce that we've added another major taxonomy to our library. Today, we are officially releasing our new Mining Taxonomy, with 900+ terms and 200+ synonyms covering most major mining business processes including exploration, extraction, extractive metallurgy, geology, and more. We've spoken to a lot of mining companies who have downloaded the WAND General Business WAND Manufacturing Taxonomy Now Available 9/23/2011 WAND's product and service taxonomies cover all the types of products that a company may make. We have coverage of products for every industry and any company. WAND Manufacturing Taxonomy Now, we have developed a manufacturing taxonomy to cover topics about how products are made. This taxonomy is ideal for any company with a document management project, perhaps in SharePoint 2010 or Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 8/31/2011 I came across this training video about how to use Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 from the Microsoft Developer Network site.  This is a 20 minute video and worth watching from anybody who is doing content management inside of SharePoint 2010. A few key highlights: - Ability to define and share content types enterprise wide from a single site collection. Local content types can still be Need a taxonomy for an IT department? 6/13/2011 WAND has just completed the first build of an information technology taxonomy, with over 1,700 categories to help an IT department organize its content.  WAND's new IT Administration Taxonomy (is that the right name for it? I'm not yet sure) includes commercial software packages, programming languages, IT certifications, IT administration processes, and more.  The taxonomy is ready for import WAND Partners with SAS to power Classification Taxonomy Rules Kits 5/20/2011 The WAND Taxonomy are now featured in a new offering from SAS.  SAS's Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits help power more efficient classification inside of SAS Enterprise Content Categorization.  We are very pleased to be working with SAS. Managed Metadata, Taxonomy, and Collaboration Features in SharePoint 2010 4/15/2011 Previously in this blog, I've discussed the basic managed metadata capabilities in SharePoint 2010, that is, the ability to import taxonomies into the SharePoint 2010 Term Store and then tag documents with metadata from these taxonomies in a managed metadata column by browsing through the taxonomy hierarchy or using the type-ahead search feature. Or, using DataFacet from WAND, these managed How to use taxonomies and taxonomy metadata in Sharepoint 2010 - Content Organizer 3/2/2011 The Sharepoint 2010 term store has done a terrrific job of raising awareness of the value of taxonomy for organizing enterprise information.    Once people are aware of taxonomy, how can they use it?  I've discussed the basic applications on this blog already.  Taxonomy and the managed metadata feature makes a huge step forward for tagging documents in Sharepoint and for providing sophisticated List of Taxonomies for Sharepoint 2010 2/1/2011 I've had several postings about taxonomy for Sharepoint 2010 but I wanted to make sure I've provided a link to the list of foundation taxonomies available from WAND.   Taxonomies for Sharepoint 2010 These taxonomies are designed to get you started in implementing your own taxonomy.  Once you've selected a foundation taxonomy, it can be customized to include the specific terminology for your Interesting SharePoint Security Company, CipherPoint Software 1/19/2011 An interesting young company that we've run across in the SharePoint security space is CipherPoint Software. CipherPoint's products secure sensitive content in SharePoint sites, and by doing so, they solve compliance issues related to content regulated by various compliance regulations, including GLBA, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and others. There's a natural connection here to what we do at WAND with Sentiment Analysis Taxonomy 11/22/2010 Sentiment analysis, or Customer Sentiment Analysis, has become an important component for monitoring attitudes or feelings about your business, products, or reputation on the Internet. With social media vehicles such as Twitter, Facebook, product review sites, comment sections, and more, your company or product could be mentioned all over the web. It's important to understand how people feel Five ways to use taxonomy 11/18/2010 I've worked in the taxonomy space for quite a while now, but I still always speak to people who are just learning about taxonomies for the first time. Often times they have a specific project that they are working on that they know a taxonomy is needed. Sometimes, they have a challenge they are not sure how to solve, but think taxonomy may help. Other times, it's some poor person who may have DataFacet for Oracle video now on YouTube 11/16/2010 The video about DataFacet for Oracle that i mentioned in my last post is now up on YouTube, in case it is more convenient to watch it (and share it) there.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4DdqWxdSw See more at the WAND Inc. Blog