The term bus comes from the bus in an electrical system or the backplane of a computer, both of which define a set of common connection points and a methodology for making the connections. Entopia unveiled the product, which is in the final stages of beta testing, at the Delphi Summit in Coronado, California.
Officials at Belmont, California-based Entopia say that the product is designed to address the explosion of content by connecting repositories and applications across the organization. K-Bus employs a transparent metadata layer to semantically index content, track the context and popularity of its use in real-time, and continually refine enterprise knowledge repositories. Entopia says that the first release of K-Bus will support two applications that leverage the new bus architecture: Knowledge Locator, a search and retrieval system; and K-Map (or Knowledge Map), a mapping application that provides a graphical, semantic representation of relationships between key concepts in content.
K-Bus provides a connector framework to allow third-party systems to interface with its metadata server. K-Bus has built-in connectors for the Internet, file shares, email IMAP servers, enterprise portals, and Entopia’s own Quantum KM system. Add-on connectors are provided for other KM systems, such as Documentum, Open Text and IBM/Lotus (Notes), as well as relational database systems.
Entopia also says it will release subsets of the K-Bus metadata to other applications using the DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) standard.
Source: Computerwire
