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EP Cataloging

• Architecture and System
• for Implementing and Evolving with Standards

Presentation to
POSC Annual Meeting
November 21, 2002
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About Pliant

• Enterprise Information Integration (EII) software
  firm
• Packaged solutions
• Aggregation and integration
• Content management and search
• Paper to digital conversion
• Infrastructure and toolsets for custom
  applications
• Revolutionary methods
• Architecture specific for the purpose
• Artificial intelligence tools
• 60 man-years of development portfolio of patents
• A dozen customers spanning a diverse range of
  industries and applications

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Pliants Specifications for EII

• Data As-Is
• Sharing rather than recreating, regardless of
  location
• Eliminating data cleansing and transformation,
  regardless of
• Structure
• Semantics
• Bolt-On
• Service any existing infrastructure, system
• No new infrastructure for implementation
• No restructuring of shared information for
  performance
• Communicate with any application or data
  federation system
• Real Time Continuous
• Terabyte scale 24x7 operation
• Sharing always real-time current
• Sources free to start/stop, add, modify, delete

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The Pliant Solution
Pliant is an enterprise scale index
EII NOT EAI (enterprise application integration)
EAI solutions are among the spokes that Pliant
works with and produces value for.
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Pliants SourceWare Architecture
Patented architecture to support intelligent data
services..

• Neutral form

• Single zero latent index for all data types
• Automated network of data relationships

• Low cost ad hoc queries, searches
• Inference engine-driven rules
• Terabyte scalability

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Intent-Based Information ManagementTM

• Comprehensive semantics -- computed
  content-specific
• Recognition, management of intent over disparate
• Styles
• Structures
• Contextual meanings
• Computed topic mappings of mixed domains of
  content
• Detailed auto-classification of mixed domain
  content
• By topics
• By any content taxonomy

Automated methods for recognizing and processing
the intent of data
Personalized expressions of data.
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What is the EP Catalog?
Flare Consultants recommendation to POSC
Source Flare Consultants POSC Presentation EP
Cataloging_sep02Cat_standards at www.posc.org
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What is the EP Catalog?
Flare Consultants recommendation to POSC
A common set of Information metadata attributes
for ALL EP Information
Global high-level management views
A filing system
A connection layer which indexes ALL Information
sources databases, document systems, knowledge
bases, process systems.
Familiar common EP language
Source Flare Consultants POSC Presentation EP
Cataloging_sep02Cat_standards at www.posc.org
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What is the EP Catalog?
Flare Consultants recommendation to POSC
A common set of Information metadata attributes
for ALL EP Information
Detailed drill-down local/special views
A filing system
A connection layer which indexes ALL Information
sources databases, document systems, knowledge
bases, process systems.
Familiar common EP language
Source Flare Consultants POSC Presentation EP
Cataloging_sep02Cat_standards at www.posc.org
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Benefits of Pliant Solution

• Resolves spectrum of structured and unstructured
  information
• 90 faster, cheaper implementations and
  maintenance
• Higher performance, 90 lower hardware cost and
  complexity
• Permanent solution that continuously adapts to
  change
• Unique intelligence features and functionalities

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Enterprise Search

• Integrates spectrum of structured and
  unstructured information
• Automates industry specific semantics
• Synonyms, acronyms, stems
• Languages
• Misspellings
• Automates manually intensive services
• Content indexing
• Content classification with/without taxonomy
  (100,000s to millions of nodes)
• Delivers personally relevant search results
• Without navigation
• Across all enterprise information

Implementations in weeks
Continuous updates and changes
1,000s simultaneous users on simple, low cost
hardware
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Experience the Pliant Search
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• Scale of system
• 40 gigabytes of medical information
• 1 million word semantic system
• gt600,000 node topic network
• Hardware (5K machine)
• Supports 100 simultaneous users
• NT/Windows 2000 OS
• Intel 800 mhz CPU 1.5 gigs RAM
• Access to search system
• Userid posc
• Password archer
• Tutorial available

http//www.growthnetworld.com/customer/pliant/inte
rnet/search_tech/tutorial.html
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Paper-to-Digital Conversion
Full Digital Value of Information Bound up in
Physical Media

• Resolves to 99.99 accuracy the complete
  digitization of content using OCR
• Automates manually intensive services
• Image content indexing
• Content classification with/without taxonomy
• Extracts database structures without resorting to
  templates
• Integrates with all electronic data and content

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Integration into Work Process
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Bills of Lading
Purchase Orders
Invoices
..with Intelligent Data processes
Replace the manual work performed throughout the
accounting A/P work process
OCR Resolution
OCR Resolution
OCR Resolution
Back Office System-Compatible Data Structure
Payments
Data Transfer
Business Processes on the data
ERP System
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Data Integration and Analysis

• Complex customer database integration in 8 days
• Complex business intelligence in 3 more days

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Read, Process Intent not Literal
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• Detect matching customers using fuzzy logic based
  rules
• Create fuzzy keys across matching customers

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For More Information and a Quote
Dr. Michael J. Massey Executive Vice
President 713-942-0666 x105
Tom Klein Vice President of Sales 713-942-0666
x109
or
Visit our Website and Download Our Whitepapers at
http//www.plianttech.com/
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Appendix Putting Data in Neutral Form
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Whitepaper available for download at
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