Webmind is a Java-based software system with a very simple purpose: to help you answer questions.
-- It absorbs information from your intranet, data feeds and the Net at large
-- It answers and poses questions regarding the information it has absorbed
-- It constantly thinks about this information to improve its future responses
This is not merely another souped up search engine or data mining tool. Interacting with Webmind is less like using a typical software product than it is like dialoguing with an impossibly knowledgeable human being, with tremendous analytical powers.
This is an interactive, self-organizing system that works with you to help mold and shape your search for information in specific ways.
Using ordinary language and an intuitive pictorial interface, users pose questions involving concepts, text documents or numerical data, in much in the same way as they would approach another human individual with a query. Asking its own questions when your queries are not clear, and bringing the full breadth of its knowledge to bear on each answer, Webmind helps you to creatively construct the answers you need.
Intranets, document archives and databases are huge and unwieldy, containing large chunks of data, only small parts of which are relevant to your inquiry. Search and data mining products provide only limited guidance, pushing your quest for answers in directions determined by their ignorance rather than by your own goals.
Webmind is capable of understanding your question, accessing relevant information and analyzing it -- and responding, not by dumping long lists of possibilities on the screen, nor by presenting you with unexplained results, but by dialoguing with you about your inquiry to help you make relevant choices. It understands, like you, subtleties in the evolution, flow and internal relationship of information to itself.
These capabilities catapult Webmind far beyond the realm of data seeking and analysis into a brand new world of intelligent human-computer partnership. Webmind is not bound by a set of iron rules and limited analogy techniques. Rather it can do what any sophisticated employer wants their employees to do: "think on their feet."
Using Webmind, you are not required to spend vast amounts of time plowing through mountains of unrelated information for the useful specifics -- and then struggling to locate the correct inferential technique for drawing the conclusions you need. Using ordinary software, critical threads of information, opening up valuable but unknown avenues of inquiry, remain permanently closed. Webmind finds the critical data, then enters into the heart of it, applying its reason and intelligence to ferreting out the optimum response along with fruitful directions for further investigation -- cunningly adaptive and skillfully wise in getting you what you want and more.
Finally, as you develop a relationship with Webmind and as it is given access to wider and wider networks of information, this software exhibits yet another innovative, unprecedented dimension: it truly learns. As you grow informationally through using Webmind, so does Webmind grow informationally. This is not in the static, limited sense of storing new information, nor in the trivial sense of adapting its parameters based on experience, but in the dynamic sense of evolving, growing, self-creating intelligence. It will keep pace with your demands and constantly upgrade itself to offer answers that reflect this mutually enriching frame of dialogues. Just as you achieve inspirations and conceptual breakthroughs at times and places outside the normal confines of an office or boardroom, so too Webmind is always operating in the background to enrich its understandings of the kind of information you want, to create better ways to combine and make more probable the relevant utilization of that information.
Furthermore, Webmind's unique learning dynamics makes use of the most exciting development in modern computer technology -- network computing. Java makes the slogan "the network is the computer" a reality; Webmind takes this one step further, proclaiming "the network is the computer is the mind." Implemented on a small network of powerful computers, it reaches out across the larger network in which it is embedded, gathering information from websites, document archives and databases, sharing insights and experiences with other Webminds, transforming an intranet into a digital nervous system, and the World Wide Web into a World Wide Brain.
-- Access to data in specific, user defined ways through natural language
-- Intelligent answers, inferentially enriched and expanded through an ongoing dialogue relationship
-- Leveraging of Java network computing into serious intellectual power
-- A partner whose knowledge grows with you to support your efforts at success
This is not merely mind over matter but mind over what truly matters to you!
It is your time, the precious time of your employees and ultimately your bottom line that we are talking about. An expanded capacity to access and analyze information, and a capability to make suggestions about even more creative usages of information, means that the power of modern network computing is finally applied to what is really important to YOU.