| Putting it Together With “Meshin” |
| Friday, 01 October 2010 18:18 | |||
 Palo Alto, California, October 2010 — A new search tool, designed to act more like a human personal assistant than a plug-in, was introduced this week by Meshin, a start-up funded by Xerox Corporation. The new tool, also called Meshin, uses semantic technologies to reach beyond keywords and metadata and gather information via meaning and context. It is the first time semantic technology has been applied to a search tool that scans not only email messages, but also RSS feeds and social networks inside email. www.meshin.com
As a result, when Meshin is downloaded onto a personal computer, it can help – for example – a vice president of sales prepare for a last minute customer meeting by pulling together relevant emails and document exchanges, Tweets, blog postings and the customer’s company news. “Our challenge in the workplace is not only about having too much information. It's also finding, linking, reconciling or organizing multiple pieces of information logically and rapidly so we can use this information to do our jobs effectively,” said Chris Holmes, CEO of Meshin. “That’s what Meshin does.” Incubated at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), A Xerox company, Meshin is part of Xerox’s effort to develop technologies that help businesses gain back productivity that has been lost when trying to manage the overload of information bombarding today’s knowledge worker. “Meshin is a great example of the next wave of human-like search tools that are more in tune with the way people actually think, work and relate to others,” said Sophie Vandebroek, chief technology officer and president, Xerox Innovation Group. “We are developing tools like Meshin because they help typically overtaxed and overwhelmed professionals focus on the content and connections that really matter.” Meshin is being launched as a Microsoft Outlook plug-in in a public beta release. “We have rolled out our semantic technologies with Microsoft Outlook because email is so core to how work gets done in offices of any size, anywhere,” Holmes said. “However, our technologies are platform-agnostic and can be applied beyond Outlook.” Meshin provides the first-ever semantic and natural language processing technologies to manage all your communication streams from email messages and RSS feeds to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Meshin draws on years of semantic research to pinpoint contextually-relevant information about companies, people and document attachments in Microsoft Outlook. Available now in Microsoft Outlook as a public beta, Meshin quickly and accurately pulls together information about companies, people and even document attachments in email and across the web to save you time, help you work smarter, and streamline business processes and improve team collaboration. Xerox Corporation is a leading global enterprise for business process and document management. Through its broad portfolio of technology and services, Xerox provides the essential back-office support that clears the way for clients to focus on what they do best: their real business. Headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, Xerox provides leading-edge document technology, services, software and genuine Xerox supplies for graphic communication and office printing environments of any size. Through ACS, A Xerox Company, which Xerox acquired in February 2010, Xerox also offers extensive business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing services, including data processing, HR benefits management, finance support, and customer relationship management services for commercial and government organizations worldwide. Xerox® and the sphere of connectivity design are trademarks of Xerox Corporation in the United States and/or other country. SOURCE: Xerox
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