Relational navigation breaks down the artificial distinctions between: free text search and database “slicing and dicing”, finding and discovering, search and analytics, text retrieval and fact retrieval. Relational navigation delivers context and scope for exploration and discovery.

The true value of relational navigation can be realized around the following business issues that require reasoning capabilities and the ability to “connect the dots” either in business compliance, discovery research or an intelligence context. Examples include:

• 360° View: Ability to aggregate internal and external data sources to provide a complete view of a topic by visualizing previously unrealized relationships; providing a comprehensive inside-out exploration within scope and context of a particular business inquiry or analysis requirement.

• Unanticipated Browse: Ability to dynamically deliver scope and context as well as pivoting and sub-setting for metadata instead of hard-coding navigation into all web and application requirements allowing navigation in every direction. Delivers everything from a “bird’s eye to a bug’s eye” view of information.

• Communities of Interest: Ability to aggregate internal and external information sources in order to establish a “total topic-relevant view” for greater “brand stickiness” and/or “brand expansion”; providing a more dynamic outside-in exploration of a topic for greater collaboration.

• eDiscovery (Regulatory Compliance): Answering the question: How do I find the information I need to meet various regulatory reporting requirements? With increasing regulation, enterprises need to retain an ever increasing amount of information and retrieve that data and supply it to regulators quickly and accurately. Further complicating the landscape for enterprise IT managers are more complex storage requirements for the discovery of this information.

• eCommerce: Answering the question “How to find the goods or services that I need/want/desire?” Relational navigation provides a view to all the data related to a particular request, plus the ability to pinpoint the specific item “in context” to the request.

• Business Intelligence: Ability to aggregate internal and external information sources in order to establish a view to “what you don’t know but should on a person, place or thing”; providing a more accessible version of business intelligence applications without the need for the development of a classic data warehouse cube and unending sets of static reports for understanding concepts as well as numeric values.