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Wiltshire County Council selects Active Navigation for data discovery
Helping to meet regulatory requirements
Southampton, February 2008 – Active Navigation, an information management software
company, today announced that Wiltshire County Council has selected its data discovery tool.
Active Navigation will be rolled out to the Council’s 5,500 employees in order to comply with
legislation such as the Freedom of Information Act and with the e-Government Interoperability
Framework (e-GIF), which forms part of a national programme to facilitate the delivery of
accessible e-government services. The software will also facilitate the merging of information
as five local government bodies are joined to form a single council under the Local Government
Review.
Using Active Navigation, Wiltshire County Council will:
- Uncover what information actually exists across the Council in unstructured data
repositories
- Identify duplication, near duplication, redundant and inappropriate content
- Facilitate file plan creation: meeting Government requirements and local needs
- Migrate content to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS and Tower Software’s
TRIM Context
Chris Tinsley of Wiltshire County Council commented, “Active Navigation will enable Wiltshire
to prepare, and assist in the reorganization required, for the One Council transformation
process as well as meet our regulatory requirements. Active Navigation has clearly
demonstrated its value and will enable us to reorganize our information assets within our tight
deadlines: something that would have been very difficult, if not impossible, to achieve using a
manual approach”.
Peter Baumann, Chief Executive at Active Navigation said, “Active Navigation’s software
intelligently manages unstructured information. In the Pilot project for Wiltshire County
Council, we soon discovered a high percentage of duplicate and near-duplicate files, which
would have hindered the Council’s efforts to migrate its documents to any new document
management system. By implementing Active Navigation’s Data Discovery solution on a wider
scale, it will mean that information will be easier to categorise and find. This is crucial in
compliance terms where it’s very important that the Council can find the right data in a timely
manner.”
This deployment arose from a successful Pilot project, conducted last year, which
demonstrated the clear benefits of using Active Navigation to assist in the Council’s
transformation process. High levels of data redundancy and duplication were discovered,
significant storage savings could be realised and significantly reduced timeframes for migration
of content were clearly demonstrated.
NOTES TO EDITORS
About Active Navigation:
Active Navigation was originally founded to commercialise innovative hypertext systems
research carried out at the University of Southampton. Since its incorporation in 2000 the
company has developed software to address the needs of today's information-laden enterprises.
Active Navigation has pioneered a unique approach resulting in a system that automatically and
intelligently manages unstructured information. This enables enterprises to extract maximum
potential from their content instead of wasting precious time trying to find it. Organisations
also benefit from significant storage savings through Active Navigation’s audit and deduplication
capabilities. Secure, stable, and seamlessly integrated, the software includes
elegant and intuitive interfaces that dramatically enhance the user experience.
Today many well-known public and commercial organisations use Active Navigation’s software.
Recent and current customers include: the Royal Air Force, the US Department of Defense, the
US Department of Homeland Security, the US Army, Halcrow Group, Greater Manchester Fire
and Rescue Service, London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority, Jane’s Information Group
and Lloyd’s of London.
Active Navigation is a privately held company with offices in the United Kingdom and United
States of America. For further information about Active Navigation, please visit:
www.activenavigation.com or contact Active Navigation on +44 (0) 23 8076 7678.
For further press information please contact Su Kent at Active Navigation on +44 (0) 23 8076 7678 or email press@activenav.com
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