Oobian: Insight, Share, Logic, Connect

February 16, 2012

Founded in 1994, Maisis started out servicing the telecommunications market. Since 2004, the Portuguese company decided to take its experience in software and networks management and focus its activities on the document and enterprise content management and enterprise knowledge management sectors.

Maisis’ flagship product is Oobian. Released in 2009 after four years of development, it is a knowledge management system based on an intelligent navigation user interface developed in Microsoft Silverlight. The tool’s semantic interpretation capacity is based on an approach using ontologies. Oobian is able to link structured and unstructured data inside or outside firewalls. It can also automatically interpret metadata. Key features include a Web client rich user interface that has drill up and drill down features, various connectors and add-ons for Microsoft and open source applications; and support for all World Wide Web Consortium semantic Web recommendations, like OWL and RDFS. The 1.5 release in October 2011 added profile management and notification management. It also includes external Web search integration.

In May 2011, Maisis was named a Microsoft Gold Independent Software Vendor. Its Oobian clients include the Martifer Group, a multi-national engineering group, Portugal Telecom’s PT Innovation unit, and consultant Gestamp. Competitors include Ontopia, IBM, Fabasoft, and Oracle.

Stephen E Arnold, February 16, 2012

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.