Expert System Wins SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award for Best Metadata Management Solution

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Expert System (EXSY.MI), the leader in cognitive technology for the effective management of unstructured information today announced that its Luxid Webstudio was honored as the best Metadata Management Solution of 2016 as part of the 2016 SIIA CODiE Awards.  Additionally, the company's Cogito solution was named a finalist for Best Text Analytics & Semantic Technology. 

The winner announcement was made by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, to an audience of over 300 leaders. 61 awards were given for products and services deployed specifically for B2B software, information and media companies.

An SIIA CODiE Award win is a prestigious honor as each award winner was reviewed by a field of industry experts, whose evaluations determined the finalists. SIIA members then reviewed the finalists and their votes were combined with the scores from the industry experts' to select this year's CODiE Awards winners.

"We are honored to be the recipient of this year's CODiE award for Best Metadata Management Solution. This recognizes our efforts in creating an industry first integration between ontology management and semantic enrichment layers" said Daniel Mayer, CEO of Expert System.  "Thanks to this, precisely governing metadata schemes and applying them to content has never been easier, resulting in the lowest Total Cost of Ownership in the industry."

Luxid Webstudio is a user-friendly web application that combines ontology management and semantic enrichment into an efficient, integrated workflow.  Ontologies and semantic enrichment are critical for efficient exploitation of unstructured content. Luxid Webstudio's collaborative ontology web application bridges this gap by integrating with the semantic enrichment layer. Based on simple and user-friendly interfaces and ground-breaking workflow features, it simplifies and accelerates end-user tasks, at a significantly reduced operating cost.

Cogito is a cognitive computing software that reads, comprehends and answers. Based on Artificial Intelligence algorithms, Cogito makes the most of your data to empower better, more informed-decision making at the speed of current technologies and at the scale of your data repository.

"SIIA's 2016 Business Technology CODiE Award winners are some of the most innovative products impacting businesses across the world. Recognized by their peers, the CODiE Winners should be proud of this prestigious accolade honoring excellence in business technology products," said Rhianna Collier, VP & Managing Director for the Software & Services Division at SIIA. "We congratulate all of this year's CODiE Award winners, and thank them for the contributions they have made to their industries."

Details about the winning products can be found at http://www.siia.net/codie/2016-Winners. 

About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology's finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence.  For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.

About SIIA
SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. SIIA represents approximately 800 member companies worldwide that develop software and digital information content. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age. For more information, visit www.siia.net. The Software & Services Division of SIIA (SSD) represents companies that develop the applications, services, infrastructure and tools driving the success of today's high-tech industry. For more information, visit www.siia.net/SSD.

About Expert System

Expert System is a leading provider of cognitive computing and text analytics software based on the proprietary, patented, multilingual semantic technology of Cogito. Using Expert System's products, enterprise companies and government agencies can go beyond traditional keyword approaches for the rapid sense making of their structured and unstructured data. Expert System technology has been deployed to deliver solutions for a vast range of business requirements such as semantic search, open source intelligence, multilingual text analytics, natural language processing and the development and management of taxonomies and ontologies. Expert System serves some of the world's largest industries including Banking and Insurance, Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals, Oil and Gas, Media and Publishing, and Government including companies such as Shell, Chevron, Eli Lilly, Networked Insights, Nalco Champion, US Department of Justice, DTRA, BAnQ, Biogen, Bloomberg BNA, Elsevier, Gannett, IMF, RSNA, P\S\L, Sanofi, SOQUIJ, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Thomson Reuters, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wiley and Wolters Kluwer. 

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