Divine Launches Athena 5.4 to Provide Single Access Point for Data

📅 December 3, 2001 - divine, inc., (divine.com) has introduced its divine Athena 5.4, which provides a single point of access and control for all of an enterprise's unstructured knowledge resources and a platform for collaborating around that information.

divine Athena captures, stores and indexes documents created from throughoutthe enterprise and makes them available from a single point of access.Available as a stand-alone application or integrated into any portal orintranet, divine Athena can deliver its functionality to any touchpoint withcustomers, partners or employees. The company says its sophisticated searchagents allow users to browse and retrieve documents from a variety ofinternal and external sources, and its access control capabilities protectknowledge assets. This search technology also remembers past searches anduses this intelligence to serve up relevant content in future searches. Inaddition, divine Athena identifies users who share common interests,creating communities of interest where users can collaborate and shareinformation.
"As companies extend their systems and business processes beyond theenterprise to customers and partners, it is more important than ever thatthey efficiently harvest and apply the knowledge contained within theirorganization," said Ron Bienvenu, president of divine Software Services."divine Athena unlocks the valuable knowledge that now resides in multipledatabases and individual user's desktops, enabling companies to deliverrelevant information to the right people when they need it and promotingbetter, faster decision-making."
Taylor Woodrow Construction, a division of The Taylor Woodrow Group and aninternational supplier of construction and engineering services, implementeddivine Athena across its global construction business that extends fromAfrica to Europe and North America. Taylor Woodrow migrated its knowledgebase to divine Athena, providing its work teams with an intuitive system foraccessing relevant information on projects and the worldwide constructionindustry.
"Our investment in divine Athena has improved our ability to collect andshare vital content, and collaborate effectively with our work teams aroundthe world," said Iain Sayers, project manager at Taylor WoodrowConstruction. "This new version of divine Athena, with its improved look andfeel and increased usability, provides us enormous efficiencies byeliminating fruitless queries and allowing us to share and re-use the mostcurrent, relevant information."
The key features of divine Athena 5.4 include:
Enterprise-wide access to unstructured content, including documentsand databasesAutomatic profiling enables users to identify subject matter expertsProactive information delivery of relevant documents to usersAutomatic document categorization and creation of community ofinterestSecure knowledge storage and comprehensive document, agent andprofile security to control information accessOrganized knowledge cycle allowing users to version, organize andsearch for documents in different waysOffline access to documents and automatic synchronizationEasy knowledge harvest from desktop applicationsAvailable as a stand-alone application, or integrated into thedivine Enterprise Portal or other portals or intranet platformsSeamless integration with divine MindAlign, divine's enterprise levelreal-time collaboration application