Brainware’s James Zubok Interviewed
March 31, 2008
Privately-held Brainware, once a unit of the German high-tech content management vendor SER Systems AG, is expanding rapidly, the company told Stephen Arnold, managing partner of ArnoldIT.com. The company uses a patented system and method anchored in numerical processes.
James Zubok, an attorney and the company’s chief financial officer, said in an interview on March 30, 2008: “In less than two years we’ve experienced remarkable growth. Our sales have grown by more than 900 percent and we’ve doubled our sales force.”
The complete interview appears as part of the Search Wizards Speak series available on the ArnoldIT.com Web site.
Brainware has a patented method for processing text. In sharp contrast to the dozens of vendors who index by key word and then try to discover metadata. The technique involves trigrams or three-letter sequences. Mr. Zubok described the system in this way:
When we index the word “BRAINWARE” we store a representation of the following trigrams: “BRA”; “RAI”; “AIN”; “INW”; etc. We create a similar trigram representation of all of the text in a search query. During a search, instead of trying to match up entire words, we match the trigrams, which allows our application to be incredibly fault tolerant. Even if some of the trigrams are not a match, our search yields relevant results without relying on any dictionaries or other pre-defined rules.
The system lends itself to some high-value applications; for example, patent application and patent analysis, email discovery, and competitive intelligence activities.
One interesting aspect of the Brainware approach to content processing is its work flow functions. Mr. Zubok said:
We have workflow solutions for our intelligent data capture offerings (they have embedded search capabilities). We have two workflow applications: WF-distiller, which is our principal workflow component that is used for creating and managing workflows of all types of complexities; and A/P-WebDesk, a specialized workflow module built using WF-distiller but used specifically for Accounts Payable management. A/P-WebDesk (which includes A/P-WebDesk for SAP, a version built specifically for seamless integration with SAP) provides an easy-to-use interface to manage the entire invoice processing lifecycle.
The company’s system can be “tuned” using additional word lists and knowledge bases. You can read the complete interview with James Zubok here. More information about Brainware is available on the company’s Web site. You can download a trial version of the desktop build of Brainware’s search and content processing system from the Brainware.com Web site.
Stephen Arnold, March 30, 2008
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