DataFacet is a new product from WAND, Inc, that enhances the managed metadata capabilities of SharePoint 2010 with advanced automatic tagging capabilities and prebuilt term sets.

DataFacet for SharePoint 2010 combines an available library of hundreds of pre-built taxonomies with a software add-on that extends the managed metadata feature in SharePoint 2010 to allow companies to deploy an enterprise taxonomy and document tagging in a SharePoint 2010 environment.

SharePoint 2010’s new managed metadata feature enables taxonomies to be loaded into SharePoint for the first time.

The DataFacet auto-tagging engine analyses the text of documents at check-in time and matches the taxonomy elements that are found in the document. The matching elements are added to enterprise keywords columns of the document and subsequently are used for search and faceted navigation of document result sets.

Rules can be created and modified in the taxonomy manager interface as well as previewed before they are applied to the complete corpus.

The foundation taxonomies can be customized with terminology that is specific to the enterprise. Taxonomy terms can be added, deleted and rearranged.

DataFacet also integrates with FAST Search for SharePoint, with automatic document tagging promised to enhance the parametric capabilities of FAST to provide quicker, more accurate search results.

Microsoft Senior Product Manager Ryan Duguid commented that “advanced taxonomy management and auto-classification of enterprise documents are both logical extensions and enhancements of the new features of SharePoint 2010. The DataFacet solution from WAND can rapidly reduce the burden of tagging from end users, increasing information value and making it easier to find and leverage content in SharePoint 2010.

“DataFacet is also a great solution for SharePoint 2007 customer looking to migrate to SharePoint 2010 and take advantage of the great new taxonomy capabilities by automatically tagging existing content across the enterprise.”
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