WAND Delivers Taxonomy to Business Intelligence Professionals

Mark Leher, Vice President of Business Development for WAND, Inc., recently participated in an exclusive interview with Ron Powell and the Business Intelligence Network (www.BeyeNETWORK.com). In this interview, Leher describes WAND's extensive taxonomy with vocabulary for classifying products and services and talks about why taxonomies in general are valuable business assets.

"Taxonomy is simply becoming a critical component to discovering information that is locked in unstructured textual information within the enterprise," noted Leher. "Taxonomy can help identify key concepts within the text and put context around that content so knowledge workers can find answers. Business intelligence professionals should examine taxonomy with a long term strategy in mind."

"Unstructured data is having a huge impact on business intelligence ," says Ron Powell, Cofounder and Editorial Director of the Business Intelligence Network. "WAND taxonomies provide strong value because they make information more findable and actionable."

To listen to the interview, please click here (http://www.b-eye-network.com/spotlights/wand_0308/propackage_wand_0308.html).

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About WAND, Inc.:

Since 1995, WAND, Inc. (http://www.wandinc.com/main/default.aspredir=1) has developed structured multi-lingual vocabularies with related tools and services to power precision search and classification applications on the internet. From our custom travel, jobs and skills, and medical taxonomies to our cornerstone and product and service taxonomies, WAND's taxonomies are well-structured, deep, precise and best in class. The WAND Taxonomy is available in 12 languages.

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Contact:

Business Intelligence Network

Katie Rostermundt

krostermundt @ b-eye-network.com

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Contact:

WAND, Inc.

Mark Leher

mleher @ wandinc.com

1-303-623-1200 x267

WAND Delivers Taxonomy to Business Intelligence Professionals