Partners
Knowledge Focus has forged firm partnerships with internationally renowned organisations in the information retrieval and knowledge discovery industry.
Follow the links below to find out more about the companies.
- FAST
- Search Technologies
- Kapow Technologies
- Blue-Order
- DIVArchive/Front Porch Digital
- Cube-Tec
- :mediaproxy
FAST, a subsidiary of Microsoft is a comprehensive enterprise search offering in the marketplace to meet the needs of all organisations. FAST is viewed as synonymous with innovation and customers across the globe have long counted on FAST to solve their most difficult business problems and unlock even tough-to-reach revenue and ROI with the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP).
FAST’s offerings don’t just return results– they guarantee confidence and protection. Current customers can vouch for the productivity and profitability gains they obtain and the improvements and accuracy they see, in their business.
Search solutions have enormous value in every industry and in every market that you can think of. Whether it involves locating, filtering and presenting the data that can help a bank to improve loss avoidance or providing rapid recommendations that boost the loyalty of online shoppers.
Whether it be a solution for your business or an industry specific solution, there will be a FAST solution to meet your needs.
Visit the FAST Search Homepage (www.fastsearch.com)
Search Technologies are the premier independent provider of search software expertise and integration services. Operating internationally, Search Technologies helps clients to gain business advantage using search. They advise on product selection and deliver efficient, effective implementation and support services for search applications.
Their technical team of more than 70 experts is the most experienced group of search implementation professionals globally, and this mitigates risk for their customers. Their executive team has been selling, supporting, implementing and managing sophisticated search projects since the mid 1990s and they provide authoritative leadership for their clients' projects.
Their award winning methodologies for success is a customer assessment process that keeps implementations focused on business goals. Search Technologies' pragmatic approach based on hard-won experience ensures that their projects are delivered on time, and on budget.
In short, they are the experts at fine-tuning search software to deliver business advantage.
Visit Search Technologies (http://www.searchtechnologies.com)
Kapow Technologies eliminates the barriers to accessing, enriching, and serving timely enterprise and public web data. Kapow Web Data Server is a patented visual development and web data automation platform that enables Fortune 1000 companies to create high-value business applications with no coding required. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Kapow currently has more than 400 customers, including Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, Intel, Vodafone, and Audi.
Visit the Kapow Technologies homepage (www.kapowtech.com)
Knowledge Focus is the South African master distributor of MAM solutions from German-based Blue Order, which focuses on all the content-related aspects of media business.
Blue Order has developed technological solutions that bridge the analogue and digital worlds of applications as varied as TV and radio broadcast, public archives, corporate brand management, production services, e-commerce, distance learning, scientific research, surveillance and more. Blue Order integrates systems and aligns operations throughout the enterprise in ways that support both editorial creativity and time-critical production schedules. The toolsets are built to collect, index, catalogue, retrieve, manipulate, distribute and protect the copyright of audiovisual and multi-format materials, are built to professional standards and have won accolades for being functionally intuitive. Blue Order’s industry-leading Media Archive MAM platform is already established as a critical component at several broadcasting sites across the globe.
Visit the Blue Order homepage (www.blue-order.com)
Front Porch Digital is the global leader in content storage management (CSM) solutions and, with the 2008 acquisition of SAMMA Systems, it is now the global leader in the migration and preservation of videotape to digital files as well. Having merged operations with SAMMA, Front Porch provides an end-to-end solution for cost-effectively digitizing, accessing, and preserving media past, present, and future. Front Porch Digital now can accelerate migration of vulnerable videotape — on an unprecedented, global scale — to optimize and secure digital storage.
Visit the DIVArchive page on Front Porch Digital's homepage (www.fpdigital.com)
Cube-Tec focuses primarily on solutions for sophisticated Professional Audio Production and in the transfer of current and historical Audio know-how to the World of Information Technology.
HDA was founded in 1990 and began manufacturing the AudioCube DAW, best known for its ultra-high quality mastering and restoration modules called Virtual Precision Instruments (VPIs) in 1997. The company then went on to develop other innovative professional products including the QUADRIGA audio archival system, which has become a world standard in automated, quality-controlled audio archival of analogue sound carriers. Recent additions to the product range include the Media-Inspector series for the archival for digital sound carriers, the CubeDVD-A, a professional solution for DVD-Audio Authoring and Foenics, a new restoration and analysis suite specialised for forensic purposes.
Today, Cube-Tec products are used by many of the world's most prestigious mastering, restoration and archival facilities. QUADRIGA archival systems are installed in over 70 facilities in 13 different countries - well on the way to becoming a worldwide standard.
Visit the Cube-Tec homepage (www.cube-tec.com)
:mediaproxy© is an award winning company, providing complete solutions for the monitoring and logging of rich-media. Video, audio and real-time data sources may be reviewed and managed 'long after the event' for legal and commercial compliance requirements and competitive analysis.
Located in Australia with a global network of broadcast integration partners, :mediaproxy is an affiliate of the XENON Technology Group (XTG), a leader in high-performance hardware platforms and customised software solutions for broadcasters and digital content creators.
:mediaproxy's Enigma LogServer™ has established itself globally as the leading solution for professional broadcast monitoring and logging.
Visit the :mediaproxy homepage (www.mediaproxy.com)