Knowledge Tree: Just There Search
November 7, 2008
On November 6, 2008, a person told me that the addled goose should take a gander (no pun intended) at Knowledge Tree’s document managmenet software. My information about Knowledge Tree here was that it was another open source software player. I poked around and discovered a feature list here. The company has an extensive line up of partners who install, customize, and support the product in most major population centers. You can find the list of partners here.
On November 4, 2008, the company issued a news release here explaining that the company had signed on as an Intel partner. This particular Intel program ‘validates software security, interoperability, and Intel multi-core processor compatibility. This benefits software vendors by reducing support and development costs, whilst providing end users with increasing confidence in the security and quality of software optimized for Intel platforms.’
The San Francisco based company asserts:
KnowledgeTree is document management made simple: secure, share, track and manage the documents and records your organization depends on with ease.By leveraging an active and innovative open source community, Knowledge Tree provides an easy to use and production-ready enterprise document management solution for use by corporations, government institutions, medium to small business and many other organizations. KnowledgeTree’s open source architecture allows organizations to easily customise and integrate their document management system with their existing infrastructure, providing a more flexible, cost-effective alternative to proprietary applications.
I fiddled with the system, ran some basic queries, located information. The behavior of the system suggested that the underlying search plumbing was Lucene, not a negative by any means.
The reason I mention this system is that open source continues to be a hot topic in a country without vowels in its name. The logic is that extensibility and freedom from vendor lock in is important for some organizations.
The other hook that snagged my attention with the smooth integration of search into the main program function. Search is ‘just there’. As a result, users are getting what is an embedded search function that can provide acceptable access to content processed by the system. For many organizations, this approach is acceptable.
If you want to look at how software vendors will address the problem of search, take a look at Knowledge Tree. I will keep my eye opened for other vendors of systems with ‘just there’ search.
Stephen Arnold, November 7, 2008
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