Applied Relevance announces the immediate availability of the AR product suite.   This release includes many enhancements,  new features and bug fixes.

AR.Taxonomy

AR.Taxonomy is a windows tool for authoring and managing taxonomies.   It is designed to be easy to use yet powerful. 

The AR.Taxonomy tool has undergone a complete refactoring of code to make it more responsive and efficient.  Here are some highlights:

- The background services are more efficient and have idle detection logic to prevent them interfering with normal forground processing.

- A new Find Node feature allows you to quickly locate nodes in the taxonomy tree.

- The preview pane is more robust, and more appropriatedly reflects the current UI state.

- A new object model for .artx files makes importing and exporting of taxonomies from different systems more efficient.

- Tested on Vista and Windows Server 2008 in addition to XP and Windows Server 2003.

AR.Server

AR.Server has been renamed from AR.Pipeline in previous releases.   This Windows service is a taxonomy server that decorates documents in any repository with powerful taxonomy metadata based on document content.  

- Support for caching of taxonomy and node counts in the server itself.

- Improved performance.

- New WCF-based API decouples modules from .Net dependency.

- Support for relevance enhancements in search results.

AR.WebParts

The AR web parts taxonomy visualization components have been greatly enhanced from the previous version.

- New TaxonomySearchResults web part builds on CoreSearchResults and adds the ability to render results from the internal web service in addition to the core object model.

- TaxonomyNavigator component now has more options for counting nodes and provides new flexible display methods.