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General |
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Basic
information about the product. |
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Factor: Standard |
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Product Name |
Themescape
Suite
2.0 |
Site Lens
Studio
1.0 |
PersonalBrain
1.73 |
MindManager
3.5 |
Readware
IpServer
3.0 |
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Manufacturer |
Cartia, Inc. |
Inxight Software,
Inc. |
TheBrain Technologies
Corp. |
MindJET, LLC |
Management Information
Technologies, Inc. |
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Group Score:
115 out of 190
Total Score:
677 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
110 out of 190
Total Score:
598 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
103 out of 190
Total Score:
554 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
97 out of 190
Total Score:
549 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
101 out of 190
Total Score:
467 out of 1210 |
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Add-on
modules |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Scripts for automating the map creation (updating) and
publishing are available. |
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Inxight Eureka, Categorizer, SDK, etc. |
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BrainSDK supports streaming and collaboration, and supports
Java 1.1 for cross platform deployment. |
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MindManager Expert Systems. |
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Consearch for Windows that get, sort, and filter
information. Also, depending upon the configuration, document
formats and database connectors are optionally available. |
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Display
OS |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
8
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WIN. |
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WIN. |
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WIN. |
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WIN. |
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WIN-UNIX-LINUX. |
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Documentation |
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Weight: 4 |
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Weighted
Score:
32
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Weighted
Score:
32
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Good documentation. Installation tips, two printed
documents: Guide to ThemeScape Server and Guide to
ThemePublisher. |
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Excellent. User Guide for both Site Lens Studio and Site
Lens Designer. They are available both online and as a printable PDF
version. |
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Online and printable User Manual, Tutorial, and Getting
Started With The Brain Guide. |
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Only provides basic printable online help and online
tutorial. |
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Very limited. An operational Guide, there is a small Word
document detailing Readware IP API. |
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General
Product Architecture |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Client-Server architecture using standard TCP/IP connection
protocol. Maps can be published to HTML files for service by MS IIS
web server and access using the Map Viewer applet in Java enabled
browser. |
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It
is Java based and embedded in an HTML applet. |
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Client/Server. |
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32-bit Windows program with Internet conferencing ability
via TCP/IP networking. |
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Readware is implemented in a Client/Server architecture. It
is designed to be used as a component together with operating
security, LDAP, DM, ODBC, flat-file, and other technologies to form
a complete and exceptional information system. The Readware Analyst
and indexer uses low-level file access functions based in C. Both
the Analyst and Query servers are multi-threaded. |
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Language
Availability |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Processing algorithms are not language specific. Some
success has been achieved with German, French, and Spanish.
Character set is single-byte. |
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English only. |
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English only. |
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English and German. No double-byte or multi-byte character
support. But the following codesets are supported: Arabic, Baltic,
Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Johab,
Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Western
(US). |
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English, German and French. |
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Module
included |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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ThemeScape is a suite of four software components:
ThemeServer, ThemePublisher, Web Manager, and Cartia Map
Viewer. |
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Site Lens Studio and Site Lens Designer. |
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PersonalBrain is the only module. |
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MindManager, symbol library, and spell check
dictionaries. |
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Analyst Server, Query Server, thin client and Java
Spider. |
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Platforms
Supported, Server |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Microsoft NT. |
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Windows 95, 98 and NT. |
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Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0 and 2000. |
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Win 95/98, NT. |
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Windows, most Unix, and LINUX. |
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Product
Positioning |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Cartia technology analyzes text to identify and visually
represent statistical patterns of word usage within and among
documents. By speeding access to relevant information, Cartia
empower users to spot patterns, interpret meaning, and discover new
knowledge without reading or manually indexing the material. It
allows users to navigate, investigate and interact with the
information space, exploring where their intuition and insight lead.
Cartia is dedicated to supporting the knowledge seeker in the search
for meaningful discoveries, accurately, quickly, and
effectively. |
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Site Lens Studio is a solution to web navigation problems
that enables web designers and webmasters to create, edit, and
modify information in the form of a graphical and interactive
map. |
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TheBrain is a medium for organizing and sharing information.
TheBrain gives people the ability to organized separate pieces of
information into one meaningful structure that conveys valuable
relationships in an easily understandable display. |
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MindManager is a memory and organizational tool that helps
users organize thoughts, projects, and presentations. It is being
used by thousands of people worldwide for planning and tracking
projects and tasks. |
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Readware creates an environment where focused information
resources are leveraged to enhance the human ability to read and
correlate information, to make decisions, and to take action based
upon being well-informed. |
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Software
Availability by Country |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Available for shipping worldwide, supported in US
only. |
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US
only. |
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US
offices only. |
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Headquarters in US and distributors in Alzenau, Australia,
England, Finland, Swiss, and Hong Kong. |
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The Company has representation in Europe, the U.S. and
Canada. |
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System
Requirements |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
12
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300 MHz Pentium recommended. 128 MB RAM recommended. 1GB
free storage. Requires TCP/IP connection. |
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Pentium 233, 128 MB memory required. |
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Pentium process with at least 16MB RAM, and at least 4MB of
free hard disk space. |
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Pentium 100 or higher, 16 MB RAM or higher, 12 MB disk space
+ 20 MB for symbols, 65000 colors, 1024x768 resolution, and Internet
browser/access. |
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350mhz Intel processor, 256MB main RAM is recommended. 2GB
free disk space (for virtual memory) is recommended. |
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Vendor
References in primary markets |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
4
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CIA, US Air Force, 3M, SAIC, Logicon, Ford, BG Technology,
Intel, HP, Herman Miller, Lucent, Phillips, and various
universities. |
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CNNfn, eToys, Barnes & Noble, Porche, Exodus,
etc. |
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Foxsports.com, Andersen Consulting, Columbia University,
etc. |
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HP, DEC, MCI, Unisys Corp, Honeywell Inc, NBC, University of
Pennsylvania, and University of California. |
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Bundesministerium does Inneren, Berlin Finanzverwaltung NRW,
D sseldorf FOCUS Online, M nchen Gauss Interprise AG, Hamburg
IC-Consult, M nchen Interprise GmbH, M nchen MAN AG, M nchen
Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen, Reinhausen Polizei NRW, D sseldorf
Sandoz Technologie AG, Basel Siemens AG, M nchen Siemens AG,
Paderborn Tangens GmbH, Potsdam Vision GmbH, M nchen |
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API
and SDK |
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Weight: 1 |
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
3
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
3
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No. API release planned for Fall 2000. |
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Yes, JavaScript and Java-based applets. |
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No. |
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No. |
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Yes, The RwIp API is provided for independent applications
access. The new application communicates with the Readware server,
sending commands and receiving response streams, using TCP/IP
sockets. It does not matter what language is used to create the
interface application. |
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Third-Party
Integration |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Use third-party file converter (from text-based native file
formats to HTML), document summarizer and object-oriented
database. |
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No
current plugins for product. |
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No. |
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No. |
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Compass Server Robot, and OpenText's Livelink Spider. A
Livelink DMS connector is available from a third party. Using OLE
and being aware of all Office formats with INSO filters, Readware
integrates well with Office applications and Windows-based
enterprise applications. |
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Popular
usage of the product |
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Weight: 1 |
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Weighted
Score:
3
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Weighted
Score:
3
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Weighted
Score:
3
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Weighted
Score:
3
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Weighted
Score:
2
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Business intelligence, intellectual asset discovery,
marketing research, natural language survey and consumer feedback
analysis, frontend interface to large knowledge repositories,
web-based access to large document collections. |
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Organization chart, product catalogs, family trees, Yahoo!
Type taxonomies on corporation intranets and document
collections. |
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Provide visual map of the Web. |
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Prepare for speeches and presentations quickly and easily.
Plan and track complex tasks and projects. |
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Newspapers or corporations to hold catalog and classify
documents in archives on networks, intranets, or Internet. |
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Standards Supported |
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Industry standards to which the product adheres. |
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Factor: Standard |
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Product Name |
Themescape
Suite
2.0 |
Site Lens
Studio
1.0 |
PersonalBrain
1.73 |
MindManager
3.5 |
Readware
IpServer
3.0 |
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Manufacturer |
Cartia, Inc. |
Inxight Software,
Inc. |
TheBrain Technologies
Corp. |
MindJET, LLC |
Management Information
Technologies, Inc. |
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Group Score:
56 out of 210
Total Score:
677 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
110 out of 210
Total Score:
598 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
64 out of 210
Total Score:
554 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
64 out of 210
Total Score:
549 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
108 out of 210
Total Score:
467 out of 1210 |
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Open
Standards Support |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
12
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No. |
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LDAP. |
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OLE. |
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OLE. |
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OLE, LDAP. |
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SSL
Support |
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Weight: 5 |
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
48
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
48
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No. |
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Yes. |
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No. |
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No. |
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Yes. |
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Support
for Standard Email Protocols |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Standard SMTP/POP. |
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None. |
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MAPI. |
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MAPI. |
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No. IMAP and MAPI (Outlook) planned for next
release. |
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Document
Types Supported |
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Weight: 5 |
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Weighted
Score:
48
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Weighted
Score:
48
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Weighted
Score:
48
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Weighted
Score:
48
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Weighted
Score:
48
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Approximately 250 types. Including word processing programs,
HTML, and text files. |
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All document types. Users can embed an applet into a web
page and set a node to a path or any type of file as long as the
client computer has the necessary application to open that file;
then it will be viewable by the client and the applet just links to
that specific file. |
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It
supports Rich Text Format, bitmap Image, Wordpad document, Enhanced
metafile, Flash, Microsoft HTML Document 5.0, Winzip file. |
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RTF, HTML and TXT. It reads and writes MindManager MMP and
eMindMaps EMM files. |
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200 formats. Incorporated with TextAccess from INSO Corp,
Readware can read formatted files Including Windows, DOS, Macontosh,
Unix, PDF and compressed file formats. |
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Database
Connectivity |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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No. |
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ODBC. |
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No. |
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No. |
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No. Must use Readware toolkit (SDK) to build database
adapters or pay company NRE charge to build an adapter. |
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Web Capabilities |
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The
product's features that support World Wide Web functions. |
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Factor: Standard |
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Product Name |
Themescape
Suite
2.0 |
Site Lens
Studio
1.0 |
PersonalBrain
1.73 |
MindManager
3.5 |
Readware
IpServer
3.0 |
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Manufacturer |
Cartia, Inc. |
Inxight Software,
Inc. |
TheBrain Technologies
Corp. |
MindJET, LLC |
Management Information
Technologies, Inc. |
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Group Score:
22 out of 30
Total Score:
677 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
22 out of 30
Total Score:
598 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
10 out of 30
Total Score:
554 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
20 out of 30
Total Score:
549 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
6 out of 30
Total Score:
467 out of 1210 |
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Publishing |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Users can publish a content map, document group, and time
slice to make them available to the Internet and intranet users or
other ThemePublisher users. When publishing, it is making a
read-only copy of the content map on the server. Readers can flag,
zoom, pan, and bookmark documents for future reference. |
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Users can publish their project to a local website or to a
web server. The process is really easy. One click on Publish and
then it provides the accessible directory where to copy the files
from (or FTP) and that was it. Site Lens creates the applets to show
the map. |
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Brains can be published. But it only can be published in a
category of The vendor's Think Tank web page for Internet (global)
accessing. The Notes Section as well as the files and shortcuts
users have created can be published with the Brains. Also, users can
keep some thoughts private (hidden) when publishing. |
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Yes. The MindMaps can be published on the Web through FTP,
etc. Users can use MindManager's website export feature to create
Java-enhanced websites. |
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No. Readware does not publish Collections automatically. The
Readware IP Servers work in conjunction with a web publishing
system. |
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Web
Servers Supported |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Microsoft IIS. |
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All web servers are supported. |
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Microsoft IIS. |
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All. It doesn't matter to MindManager. MindManager just
generate the HTML pages. |
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Microsoft IIS and Apache server. |
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User Functionality |
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Features on the application's client-facing side. The parts
of an application that facilitate a user's work processes. |
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Factor: Standard |
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Product Name |
Themescape
Suite
2.0 |
Site Lens
Studio
1.0 |
PersonalBrain
1.73 |
MindManager
3.5 |
Readware
IpServer
3.0 |
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Manufacturer |
Cartia, Inc. |
Inxight Software,
Inc. |
TheBrain Technologies
Corp. |
MindJET, LLC |
Management Information
Technologies, Inc. |
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Group Score:
326 out of 520
Total Score:
677 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
246 out of 520
Total Score:
598 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
277 out of 520
Total Score:
554 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
248 out of 520
Total Score:
549 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
176 out of 520
Total Score:
467 out of 1210 |
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Additional
Features |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Such as create Time slices and Groups. Users can save the
map in either two formats: JPEG and CompuServe GIF. Provides for
PERL scripting for customized source text extraction. |
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No. |
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No. |
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Internet conferencing for multi-users. Provides chat log for
all the conference sessions. TimeTask, MindManager will create
Project to manage time/task based on the start/end date of tasks.
Can mark Done and set priority. Multi-maps function that can connect
several small mindmaps with each other. |
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The administrator can run the Analyst so that it keeps a
list of terms found in files that it does not recognize. Important
terms can be added to the ConceptBase so that Readware can also
recognize how the news terms relate in the terms already captured in
the ConceptBase. The administrator can also define subject
categories by which to classify information. The administrator can
define almost any type of knowledge as a topic. Topics fit in the
Readware hierarchy. Topics can be listed at the interface. They can
collect specified information on a single click. Topics can be
nested in users' queries. One of the best query functions of the
evaluated products . Readware supports a wide range of flexibility
on how the users can accurately query the information they really
need. By providing searching format (such as: for ..) and Query
Command Language (by placing Logical positioning symbols). |
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Collaborative
Mapping |
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Weight: 4 |
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Weighted
Score:
24
|
|
Weighted
Score:
24
|
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Weighted
Score:
16
|
|
Weighted
Score:
32
|
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Yes. Maps can be shared, as long as users have access right
to the maps. |
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Yes. All files can be on a shared directory and used by
individuals with Site Lens Studio. However, they cannot be accessed
at the same time. |
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Users can upload their Brains to a part of the vendor's
website called Think Tank and be able to share with other Brain
users. |
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Yes, through the Conferencing function. This is an exciting
function. Participants share mindmaps and work on the mindmaps
together through the Internet connection. It provides an interactive
and teamwork working environment. |
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Yes, users can share Collections when given proper
authorization. |
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Advanced
Search Capabilities |
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Weight: 4 |
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
32
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Able to use single terms, Boolean expressions and literal
strings searches through all the documents in the map's database.
The search result will be automatically saved for reuse or combine
with other groups of documents. The map provides additional visual
context for search results and improves results. But no wildcard
characters support. |
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Yes, search for nodes only. Users can search for a text or
numerical string in either: the labels of nodes, the ToolTips of
nodes, and the URLs of nodes. Users can find a series of nodes in
one find. But does not support wildcard search. Replace can replace
all label text. |
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Search function is very good. Users not only can search for
thoughts , they can also search for files, and web pages. When
search web pages, users can select/custom search engines. On the
search window, users can be more specific on name contain, Keyword
included, Keyword exclude, etc. |
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When perform search/replace, users can select Match whole
word only and Match Case. Attached documents and maps are also
searchable. However, it does not support wildcard search and it does
not display messages such as not found or 3 were found. |
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The crown jewel of this product. On top of the traditional
plain text, keyword, and Boolean search, it provides unique and
impressive advance query using advance knowledge types for more
accurate and comprehensive results. They are Document subjects,
Probes (why, who, growth), Issues (trends, potential troubles), and
Topics (Politics, Health - there are 336 predefined topics
specifications around). |
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Content
Filtering |
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Weight: 4 |
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Weighted
Score:
32
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Weighted
Score:
32
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
16
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ThemeScape can include or exclude harvested documents in a
content map based on their file extension, the minimum and maximum
number of words in the document, the presence or absence of words,
or the percentage of unique words within the harvested document.
Users can set up stopwords too. |
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When crawling websites, users can enter certain file
extensions that they do not want to crawl to, such as JPEG, GIF,
txt, or PDF files, and are able to specify only the first link to
the page or all links to the page. The other way to filter is by
setting limits on crawl depth and total number of nodes. |
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Yes. PersonalBrain can filter out redundant or non-local
links. |
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No. MindManager only add content links to the
maps. |
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Yes, include or exclude specified files by extension when
defining a Readware Information Collection and exclude category from
the scope of the search; such as travel-related documents. |
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Customization |
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Weight: 4 |
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
32
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Weighted
Score:
16
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User can add or edit HTML-based content for the
ThemePublisher Feature frames to provide introductory and contextual
info, including links to documents in the content map. Users can
change default settings, such as appearance, how many documents for
a search to disclose, and display how many links to other related
documents. |
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After the map is generated, users can change more on the map
- not only the label, but also the colors (can use custom colors
too), size, font, layout, and replace all (to other text). Users can
customize the HTML page of the published map. Users can add child
nodes to the map. |
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User can set default preferences on how to create a Brain.
Users can customize the way Brain is displayed, such as: Auto Hide,
Docking, Floating, resizing, colors, font and wallpaper,
etc. |
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Can support color settings for normal text, title, and
outline frames. User can customize Fonts, Toolbar, Image file,
Template, Symbols and Sound used in the maps. |
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Java, VBScript or other scripting languages are supported.
The product is made to be a component, Perl, Java, VBScript or other
scripting or programming languages can be used to create independent
sophisticated interfaces to the intelligent text processing
functions automated by the Readware servers. Users can use Java,
VBScript or other scripting languages to implement independent
clients. |
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Mapping
Functions |
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Weight: 5 |
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Weighted
Score:
64
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Weighted
Score:
48
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Weighted
Score:
48
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Weighted
Score:
32
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Weighted
Score:
16
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ThemeScape creates a content map that users can easily use
to identify major thematic topics, which are represented as peaks;
tall peaks contain many documents, and small peaks fewer. The
similarities among topics are represented by the distance between
the various peaks on the content map. Most interesting is that it is
interactive; it displays the summary pages as the users move their
mouse. Users can create new maps based on query results. |
|
Site Lens genereates a map has a tree structure of multiple
branches, which can contain several levels of nodes. The home page
node is called the root node. There will be a plus/minus to show if
the node has children (plus means yes). Since maps can be imported,
users can build large maps from modules (branches) and separate
datasets. |
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PersonalBrain can crawl sources and automatically generates
visual maps for users. Users then can attach files, documents, email
messages, and integrates web content (each one is considered a
Thought) into collections (called Brains), and create associations
between different Thoughts. The Brain view thought relationships as
families, and its provide cross-referenced information at a
glance. |
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It
captures users ideas and presents them in a branch style Mindmap
which is then enhanced by adding colors and symbols to make
prioritizing and understanding even more easy. |
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Readware uses a Java spider to scan and analyze specified
web pages or other sources into the specified Collection. Then users
can use very strong Query tools to find the information they
need. |
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Support
for Natural Language Queries |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
6
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No. |
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No. |
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No. |
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No. |
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Yes. |
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Graphic
support |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Yes. Users can add CompuServe GIF and JPEG graphics to the
content pages. The limitation of the size is 167-200 pixels
wide. |
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Yes, users can use an image as a map's background and icon
or thumbnail of a node. |
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Yes, the content can be bitmap images. |
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Yes, image (bitmap) can be imported, but only to the text
notes but not directly into the map itself or the content. |
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No. |
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Includes
Web Crawling Capabilities |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Yes. Maximum to 20 levels. |
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Yes. Users enter their own maximum depth to crawl and
maximum number of nodes to collect, either one of the numbers has
reached, Site Lens will stop crawling. |
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Yes. PersonalBrain can spider web sites with unlimited
depth. |
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No. |
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Yes, crawling depth up to 5 levels. |
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Language
Options |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
4
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When a document collection with documents in different
languages is mapped, each language is given its own part of the map.
This happens as a natural result of the different kinds of words
used in the different languages. The more similar the vocabularies
of different languages, the closer the documents are likely to be on
the map. This is true for all languages. |
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No. |
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No. |
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No. |
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Yes, it supports cross-language search. |
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Input
Source |
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Weight: 4 |
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
32
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Local files (word processing documents or standard text
files), web pages (HTML), FTP sites, email, intranet sources, and
Internet sources. |
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Comma or tab-delimited text files, document repository,
spreadsheet, and websites. For websites, it only supports MINE type,
so if the page is not MINE, then it will not crawl. |
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Document, web page, email message, local files or the
Internet. Each Brain can hold over 65,000 thoughts. Any thought can
have 32 parent thoughts and 128 child thoughts. The Brain also can
import folders, Netscape Bookmarks, and Microsoft
favorites. |
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Source can be a web page, a Word document, an Excel
spreadsheet. However, Mindmanager simply collects and displays the
source but does not categorize nor index the source - in another
words, does not manipulate the source at all. |
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ReadWare will collect local files, URL and other sources
such as Open Text's flat files in a Collection. |
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Import/Export
to maps |
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| |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Maps can be exchanged among ThemeServers using the database
utility. |
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Only import but not export maps. Users can only view maps
not export maps. |
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User can import one brain to another brain to merge them but
not pieces of a brain. An Existing folders, Internet Explorer's
favorites, and Netscape navigator's Bookmarks can all be imported
and automatically created thought. Web graphic from Netscape can
also be imported. |
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Graphics, symbols, and images can be imported. Supported
formats are: BMP, GIF, PLX, JPEG, PNG, WMF(Windows metafiles:
16-bit) and EMF (Enhanced Metafiles: 32-bit). Recommended max size
is 20-30 Kbytes. User can export their map in HTML format, and
directly export them to the intranet or Internet. When importing
text, it has to be plain ASCII text in which the topics and
subtopics are indented. |
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No. |
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Integrated
Internet Solution |
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| |
|
Weight: 2 |
|
Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Yes. It can automatically categorize one or more websites
very quickly and provide the end result map with mountains and
valleys. Also users can add a hyperlink link to the content
map. |
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Yes. Site Lens Studio let users crawl more than one websites
(only HTTP server) by specifying more than one domain. In Designer
mode, users can only have the opportunity to update the node and not
be able to access any link. When published, it will go to the URL or
link to a specific file node. |
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Yes. PersonalBrain has an instant activation box that lets
users type in a URL to access websites. When a web page is attach to
a Thought, and the user clicks on the Thought, it will go to that
web page directly. Users can do standalone keyword search the
Internet through other search engines directly. |
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Yes. Users can define a hyperlink to a node, then double
click on the link from the map, or select the Jump To Hyperlink to
go to the website directly. |
|
Yes. Users can create or add a URL to a collection. Users
can define the starting URL and select crawling depth. From the
query result, user can click on the links and directly access the
resource page. |
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| |
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Internal
Viewing Capability |
|
| |
|
Weight: 3 |
|
Weighted
Score:
12
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|
Weighted
Score:
0
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|
Weighted
Score:
12
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|
Weighted
Score:
12
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|
Weighted
Score:
8
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|
|
ThemeScape creates a content map that users can easily use
to identify major thematic topics, which are represented as peaks;
tall peaks contain many documents, and small peaks fewer. The
similarities among topics are represented by the distance between
the various peaks on the content map. Most interesting is that it is
interactive; it displays the summary pages as the users move their
mouse. Users can create new maps based on query results. |
|
No. The map will not include any document. Only each node
represents an HTML page or data. |
|
72
child thoughts can displayed in the plex, the rest can be accessed
by scrolling. |
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Yes. However, the Internet browser has to be activated to
access a web page, and a specific application, such as Microsoft
Word, has to be installed to open a Word document. |
|
HTML and text files are displayed in the web browser with
highlighted hits. Application formats with MIME types are opened
according to their MIME type. (Hits are not referenced but should be
more obvious than the usual search engine.) |
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Mapping
Displays |
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| |
|
Weight: 4 |
|
Weighted
Score:
24
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|
Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Documents are presented as a topographical map. Users can
edit labels, create Time Slices, Groups, Feature frames, and
navigational features for other ThemePublisher users. |
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There is only one display type - interactive map. |
|
PersonalBrain screen has many display features. Users can
choose to display full screen, auto hide, dock right, dock left,
dock top, or dock button as well as floating the screen like a
regular window is also available. |
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Main topic, Branches, Movable Text, and Text notes are the
core component to present knowledge in MindManager. Users can take
advantage of MindManager's rich ways of using colors, fonts, and
symbols to make visualization of knowledge more effective. |
|
No
map generated, only a textual list of query results usually is
linked to sources that are generated from a user-defined
Collection. |
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Managing
content maps |
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| |
|
Weight: 2 |
|
Weighted
Score:
6
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|
Weighted
Score:
6
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|
Weighted
Score:
6
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|
Weighted
Score:
6
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|
Weighted
Score:
2
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|
It
is very easy to create, copy, update, and remove the content
maps. |
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Only allows total of 5 levels in a map. Users can apply
changes to all levels or partial levels of the selected branch.
Users can copy, cut, and paste to maps. |
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All thoughts are directly or indirectly related through
links. Users can 'Wiggle' a thought to wherever they want. The Brain
will rearrange the whole map. Users can merge Brains by importing
the whole Brain. |
|
Users can set up font, color of branch, priority, checkmark
of a map. There are unlimited units and sizes of the
mindmap. |
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Collections can be easily created and removed. Users can
update the source for Collections. |
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|
Spell-checker |
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| |
|
Weight: 1 |
|
Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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|
Weighted
Score:
0
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|
Weighted
Score:
4
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|
Weighted
Score:
0
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|
No. |
|
No. |
|
No. |
|
Yes. All the spell check dictionaries come with the product.
Spelling for the list of dictionaries: U.S. English, British
English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian,
Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and Portuguese.Users can add words to
their own custom dictionary. It provides a Suggestion Box and Change
To box. |
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No. |
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| |
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Content
exploring |
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| |
|
Weight: 3 |
|
Weighted
Score:
12
|
|
Weighted
Score:
0
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|
Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
12
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|
Weighted
Score:
8
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|
Hot topics will be immediately apparent (by the peaks).
Content is further explored by clicking on the contours in the map
or by clicking on document locations in the map to retrieve
summaries or the full text of specific articles. Most relevant
documents are displayed in the Top 10 list feature frame. A good
feature is the ability to display a short summary of each document
so that users can browse the summary first before getting the full
document. |
|
No. Users are not able to explore the content in a
node. |
|
When clicking on a thought, if it is active will
automatically open the web page is has attached or open the
necessary application and load the file. |
|
User can double click on a hyperlink to access the web page
or document or on text notes to open the content of the
source. |
|
It
allows complex surveys of a pool of information to be condensed in a
query and it returns highly relevant results. It reads thousands of
documents per second but goes further than search engines in sorting
them out. It classifies information for one-click access. It
simplifies access to collaborative information. |
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|
Notes |
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| |
|
Weight: 3 |
|
Weighted
Score:
8
|
|
Weighted
Score:
0
|
|
Weighted
Score:
16
|
|
Weighted
Score:
12
|
|
Weighted
Score:
4
|
|
| |
|
|
Yes. Users can add text to content maps. Features Frames is
reserved for customized content. |
|
No. A major drawback of this product is that users are not
able to add any notes or have an attachment of a document to the
node other than having attached GIF or JPEG images to any or all of
the nodes as a graphical labels. |
|
Each thought can attach detail notes. The Notes itself is a
word processor (and it supports all word processing applications).
Users can drag text, objects (picture, sounds, spreadsheets), files
(in ASCII or RTF format), and web pages into the Notes. |
|
Yes, users can add text notes, add Word document links and
web page links to a node. Users can define a hyperlink in their
mindmaps to a document, Excel sheet, a mindmap, and web
pages. |
|
Yes. Users can add sources to a collection by adding local
files as notes or attachments. However, they will not be labeled or
recognized as a note or attachment for an information
item. |
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| |
|
Edit
the maps |
|
| |
|
Weight: 2 |
|
Weighted
Score:
6
|
|
Weighted
Score:
6
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|
Weighted
Score:
6
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|
Weighted
Score:
6
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|
Weighted
Score:
2
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Label can be edited. Size and font for text can be
specified. When adding new documents to a content map, there are
choices of incremental, or full update. If using automatic update,
ThemeScape will decide the best method depending on how many
documents have been added and how much the topics have
changed. |
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Users can update a node or a branch. It is very similar to
the familiar expanding collapsing vertical trees used in Windows
Explorer. Also cut and paste or by importing the branch of the
desired map. Users can conveniently change the node attributes with
multiple nodes at the same time. |
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Editing the Thoughts is very easy. Users can create, link,
forget (remove), remember (reactivate) links. A unique function is
wiggle a Thought. User can drag a Thought and moving it around
before finally deciding where to put it. From right clicking the
mouse on a Thought, users can create parent/child, copy/forget a
Thought, and attach web pages. |
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Support undo-redo. Users can copy/paste nodes, reorder by
drag-and-drop components, change font and color of nodes, add symbol
to nodes (such as a smiling face), and change subject of the
nodes. |
|
Java, VBScript or other scripting languages are supported.
Perl, Java, VBScript or other scripting or programming languages can
be used to create independent sophisticated interfaces to the
intelligent text processing functions automated by the Readware
servers. Users can use Java, VBScript or other scripting languages
to implement independent clients. |
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The
final picture |
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|
Weight: 2 |
|
Weighted
Score:
6
|
|
Weighted
Score:
6
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|
Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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|
Weighted
Score:
2
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A
big picture or summary that is presented by a visual landscape of
information - a topographical map - to show what's inside the
collection and how related they are. |
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A
project is the overall collection of maps, images, templates, and so
on. Site Lens Studio opens a new project to include maps, plus
customized icons, thumbnails, crawl results, and templates, and then
publishes it to the Internet or to the local intranet. |
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A
map that organizes all personal information with web content and
easy to navigate to explore. |
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A
spiderlike chart that represents ideas on the mind. MindManager uses
symbols, colors, font sizes , thicker linking lines, etc. to make
the visual map even more visible. |
|
Readware creates user-defined collections ready for query
that contains source, document, web pages, websites, messages or
database stored in some type of document storage mechanism. When
users define their query, the resulting links can be displayed by
title, subject, date, rank, etc. in descending/ascending
order. |
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Spider |
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| |
|
Weight: 1 |
|
Weighted
Score:
2
|
|
Weighted
Score:
0
|
|
Weighted
Score:
3
|
|
Weighted
Score:
0
|
|
Weighted
Score:
0
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| |
|
|
Yes. ThemeServer harvester will spider File System
directories, FTP Directories, and web server links within the
constraints specified by the user and retrieve content for
mapping. |
|
No. |
|
Spider web page can go down 1-10 level deep. Performance is
very good. Spider graph is very structured and clear. It allows
users to automatically create a brain of any website, with the
number of levels of drill-down and links completely configurable by
the user. (However, spidering did not work well on sites that use
frames.) |
|
No. |
|
No. This product does not generate spider graphs. |
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| |
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Online
Indexing |
|
| |
|
Weight: 2 |
|
Weighted
Score:
6
|
|
Weighted
Score:
6
|
|
Weighted
Score:
6
|
|
Weighted
Score:
0
|
|
Weighted
Score:
6
|
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|
Topics are indexed and sorted alphabetically or by
frequency. It will display how many documents contain each topic.
The documents then can be accessed by clicking on a topic. |
|
Yes. This product is doing a good job indexing the source
information. It presents the information through indexing the web
pages (if the source is a website) or directories (if the source is
a file). |
|
Yes. If users give keyword to Thoughts in TheBrain to make
searching so much easier. |
|
No. |
|
The full text of documents is indexed by literal term, by
phonetic name, by concept group, and by types of knowledge
referenced in the text. |
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Reporting |
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Environment for retrieving and manipulating stored
reports. |
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Factor: Standard |
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| |
|
Product Name |
Themescape
Suite
2.0 |
Site Lens
Studio
1.0 |
PersonalBrain
1.73 |
MindManager
3.5 |
Readware
IpServer
3.0 |
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Manufacturer |
Cartia, Inc. |
Inxight Software,
Inc. |
TheBrain Technologies
Corp. |
MindJET, LLC |
Management Information
Technologies, Inc. |
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|
Group Score:
24 out of 40
Total Score:
677 out of 1210 |
|
Group Score:
8 out of 40
Total Score:
598 out of 1210 |
|
Group Score:
16 out of 40
Total Score:
554 out of 1210 |
|
Group Score:
24 out of 40
Total Score:
549 out of 1210 |
|
Group Score:
8 out of 40
Total Score:
467 out of 1210 |
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| |
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General
Reporting Capabilities |
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| |
|
Weight: 4 |
|
Weighted
Score:
24
|
|
Weighted
Score:
8
|
|
Weighted
Score:
16
|
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
8
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When printing a content map, ThemePublisher prints the
content as it appears in the map windows. The Summary page and Top
Ten list are not printable, other than a screen print. Search result
maps are printable. |
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Users can hit shift + print screen then paste clipboard to
any Word program and print the screenshot. |
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User can print out an image of the plex window. |
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Users can print mind map as a graphic, to-do-list, branch
note and in word processor 'outline' format. User can set how they
want to print the mindmap, such as a single or double color line
border. User can set page margin to scale while printing. |
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Users can print the query result (in descending rank or
other sequence). Administrators are able to print server-related
logs, etc. All Microsoft Exchange/Outlook formats will be supported
in the next release. |
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Administration |
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The
features and functionality that facilitate the management of the
product. |
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Factor: Standard |
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Product Name |
Themescape
Suite
2.0 |
Site Lens
Studio
1.0 |
PersonalBrain
1.73 |
MindManager
3.5 |
Readware
IpServer
3.0 |
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Manufacturer |
Cartia, Inc. |
Inxight Software,
Inc. |
TheBrain Technologies
Corp. |
MindJET, LLC |
Management Information
Technologies, Inc. |
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Group Score:
34 out of 50
Total Score:
677 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
8 out of 50
Total Score:
598 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
0 out of 50
Total Score:
554 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
4 out of 50
Total Score:
549 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
16 out of 50
Total Score:
467 out of 1210 |
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Access
Controls |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
4
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There are only two types of users in ThemeScape:
Administrator and User. Only Administrator can create and manage
content maps, to administer user names and passwords, and to assign
permissions to content maps on a server-by-server basis. Map
publisher can also set authorized users in map-by-map setting with
password control. |
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No. There is no access control to use Site Lens Studio to
create or update the map, but after the map is published, then it is
dependant on the web server and HTTP settings. |
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No. |
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No. |
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Security access rights are defined by the Operating system.
Currently a Collection can require authorization defined through the
Analyst Console Server and encrypted within the
Collection. |
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Backup
Capabilities |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Map file backup utility is provided. ThemeServer provides
backup/restore procedure to back up the ObjectStore server.
ThemeServer stores history data to ensure that it does not include
multiple copies of the same document in a map. |
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No. |
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No. |
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If
user selects the Create Backup Files option, then it will create a
backup file when a user saves his map document. An auto-save
function is provided, too. |
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The system features built-in redundancy. Corrupt indexes can
be rebuilt with internal functions. On last resort, original sources
can be recompiled using stored collection specification
files. |
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Ease
of Administration |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Weighted
Score:
8
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Log files are generated that document all harvesting and map
generation processes. Administrators can create, edit, and remove a
user. |
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Yes. It provides some server log files that is an extremely
valuable aid to Site Lens studio users such as error log, status,
etc. However, there is no user management. |
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No. |
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No. And no user management either. Only has license control
on per PC. |
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The system logs all actions and errors that assist in
diagnosing performance problems. Administrative tasks include
checking on and deleting daily and task logs that are written in
plain text; checking on the server, and; It performs self-diagnostic
checks maintaining collections and compacting them after many
changes. However, Readware does not control users. |
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Ease of Use |
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The
product's straightforwardness in terms of intuitiveness, logic, and
user interface. |
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Factor: Standard |
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Product Name |
Themescape
Suite
2.0 |
Site Lens
Studio
1.0 |
PersonalBrain
1.73 |
MindManager
3.5 |
Readware
IpServer
3.0 |
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Manufacturer |
Cartia, Inc. |
Inxight Software,
Inc. |
TheBrain Technologies
Corp. |
MindJET, LLC |
Management Information
Technologies, Inc. |
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Group Score:
100 out of 170
Total Score:
677 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
94 out of 170
Total Score:
598 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
84 out of 170
Total Score:
554 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
92 out of 170
Total Score:
549 out of 1210 |
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Group Score:
52 out of 170
Total Score:
467 out of 1210 |
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Ease
of Installation |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
2
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Easy, in 10 minutes with all 3 components, but requires 200
KB free space minimum and Java Runtime Environment 1.2 (provided).
No configuration required. |
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Installation went very smoothly. There is no configuration
tasks needed to set up before using the product. Users start a new
project by using one of the following four ways: opening a blank
project, crawling a website, importing a data file, copying an
existing map file, and copying an existing project. |
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Yes. Very smooth and fast. No configuration needed to use
the product. However, users change default settings such as how to
dock the TheBrain window, etc. |
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Very easy, installed in 3 minutes. There is no required
configuration to use the product. |
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The product requires some set up through DOS commands and
HTML programming after download. The Readware Analyst Server has to
start through a simple DOS command. Also Java JDK 1.1.8 has to be
installed. The default installation forms implementation sets up the
Readware Servers as a search engine for files or data that can come
from various sources and in various formats. |
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Ease
of Use |
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Weight: 3 |
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
12
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Weighted
Score:
8
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It
is easy to use. There are only a few main screens that are involved,
which are all very clear in the labeling of all the options and
function. The undo/redo command is useful. |
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Yes, it is fairly easy to use. Maps (Site Lens) are easy to
create; customizing and updating the maps are easily handled through
the robust Site Lens Designer tool. Publishing is easy,
too. |
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It
is easy to quickly generate a visual map with links to web pages and
files. |
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Very easy to use. Functions included in Tool bar and menu
bar, and the right mouse click is easy to comprehend. Users can zoom
in to work on one particular area of the mindmap. Auto save function
will save workspace automatically make user's data very safe.
Movable Task is supported for a window. |
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Yes. It is easy to use. The screen is self explanatory. The
product accepts plain language inquires and lists results. Some
experimentation is sufficient training for the Query server and The
Guide for the Analyst server. |
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Online
Help |
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Weight: 4 |
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Extensive help files are in HTML format and are available
for both interfaces. But they are not content sensitive and are not
keyword searchable. Online FAQ is also available from the vendor's
website. |
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Context sensitive and searchable on-line help (which is the
User Guide) is available for Site Lens Studio. |
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Online help file is printable but not content sensitive or
keyword searchable. |
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Online help only provide very short and basic information.
They are not content sensitive nor searchable. There are a few typo
in the text. |
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None. There is no online help, only a reference file that
can be read online, |
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Technical
Support |
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Weight: 4 |
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Weighted
Score:
32
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Phone support: M-F 9:00AM - 5:00 PM PST. Email support is
very efficient. |
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Standard hours aren't necessarily set. Response time is
within 24 hours. The support team is very responsive and
professional. |
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Online FAQ, and online reference areas are available.
Telephone support 9:00AM to 6:00PM PST. |
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Support is available via email and the website. Online help
also provides InfoCenter which is the FAQ of MindManager. |
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Phone support is 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST. Support is
professional and helpful. |
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Templates/Wizards |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
2
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ThemeScape uses map setup wizard to lead the user through
the map creation options. ThemeScape also comes with a template
that'll extract fields such as title, author, and date from source
documents. Users can create customized templates. |
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No
pre-defined template comes with the product. Users can save their
map settings as templates. Wizard is used in accepting users'
parameters in the Crawling process. |
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Users can create basic templates of file format to work
with. PersonalBrain will name the file name for templates so users
won't accidentally overwrite the templates. |
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Yes, users can save a favorite map layout as a template.
Users can set a symbol with words, so when a word is inserted, the
associated symbol is automatically attached. No wizard. |
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HTML forms for creating and updating collections and for
querying those collections are included. |
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Tutorials
and Training |
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Weight: 2 |
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
6
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
4
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Weighted
Score:
0
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Quick Tour tutorial is available for Map Viewer and help
files are available for ThemePublisher. |
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Tutorial is provided, available both online and as a
printable PDF version. |
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Online tutorial is available to view using Macromedia Flash
player 4 or Real Player. |
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Tutorial and Guided Tour are included in the online Learning
Center. It provides short and basic information and a few sample
maps. There are a few typos in the text. |
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No. There are no real Tutorials and a guided tour in the
product; however, on vendor's website, user can test drive to create
a Collection. |
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User
Interface |
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Weight: 4 |
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
24
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Weighted
Score:
16
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Toolbar and menu bar come with clear text label; therefore,
there is no guesswork. Navigation is very straightforward, and the
user interface is friendly. |
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SLY provides easy to identify short cuts for entry mode,
such as Icon entry mode and Label entry mode. Users can show/hide
toolbar, display vertical/horizontal, or make it undock to users'
preference. Tools for changing multiple node labels or color are
there, too. Users can also change the node display option. |
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Easy to navigate. Users can add wallpaper, change color of
font size of nodes and links. |
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Tool and menu bar with adequate function. Follow Windows
95/Office 97 look and feel. |
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Very limited; however, still easy due to this product being
sold as a component. It is expected that the Administrator will
integrate the servers and the forms according to corporate or
enterprise-style standards using Internet browsers as the means of
interface. There is no online help, nor is user able to browse for
file functions when selecting a local file. Local Word documents or
spreadsheets are opened in their respective application. |
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