Attivio: A Wave Maker
April 13, 2011
“Attivio Software Making Waves” reported that Attivio, Inc. and Traction Software have teamed up with the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative and Cornell University to collaborate on a “community portal”. The portal will bring together members of the scientific community, including universities and agricultural organizations from around 45 countries. They will work together to study wheat rust (a fungal disease that jeopardizes wheat, barley, and rye crops) and to prevent it’s spread. The write up said:
Knowledge is typically spread through presentations and the publication of research within leading journals – a process that can slow the exchange of knowledge by months and years…Given the severity of the threat to the world’s food supply, the BGRI could not afford to operate on that kind of timeline. We needed a collaborative platform that could be easily organized and updated and be accessible from anywhere in the world.
The Attivio software has the ability to compile the information of scientists all over the globe. Scientists often use a wide range of formats and file types. The Attivio system processes a range of content types, include information in SharePoint or locked up in the unwieldy Adobe Portable Document Format. Attivio does search as well as business intelligence functions. The objective is to save scientists time and money in their efforts to stop the Borlaug Global Rust blight. Without the Attivio system , wheat rust might extend its reach.
Worthwhile effort at a time when most search vendors want to do customer support (also a blight of sorts) and shift the responsibility of finding information to algorithms (an intellectual blight of sorts).
Leslie Radcliff, April 13, 2011
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