Timo Honkela, PhD November 23, 2000 Novel Solutions for Knowledge Management, Information Retrieval and New Media GURUSOFT, FINLAND WEBSOM "Groundbreaking technology that we are proud of"

Timo Honkela, PhD November 23, Tools and solutions for information and documentation exploration, classification, search, and visualization -Solutions cover new media, e-commerce, knowledge management, information retrieval for internet, extranets and intranets WEBSOM TOOLS

Timo Honkela, PhD November 23, based on Self-Organizing Maps -allows detailed analysis and efficient personalization of information flows -without or with minimal human intervention GURUSOFT APPROACH

Timo Honkela, PhD November 23, Products are based on advanced neural networks and natural language processing -Self-Organizing Map technology is based on the groundbreaking research and development conducted at Helsinki University of Technology WEBSOM PRODUCTS

Timo Honkela, PhD November 23, 2000 In-depth conceptual and dynamic analysis of any domain, for instance: WEBSOM OPPORTUNITIES customer feedback business models decision making product areas

Timo Honkela, PhD November 23, 2000 WEBSOM: BASIC PRINCIPLE The items -documents- that have similar content appear close to each other on the self-organized visual map Exploration, search and filtering of large document collections

Timo Honkela, PhD November 23, 2000 WEBSOM: ILLUSTRATION flow of s search results customer contacts SOM SOFTWARE LINUX MOBILE PDA WEB