Information intelligence refers to an emerging data ans semantic infrasstructure which will enable organizations to create a new generation of business applications. This new class of applications will build on the rich set of assets already available inside the organization. In facing up to the challenge of managing the organization's increasingly merged data, content, and knowledge operations, executives in government and industry are beginning to re-engineer information-based business process. The key to their success lies in learning the capabilities and practices of the information intelligence platform. Taxonomy and classification provide a key new practive - an opportunity to change the investment return profiles for current IT assets as well as to deliver rapid returns on new application investment.

This Delphi Research report is one of an ongoing series examining the state of the technology and the level of business practice in the critical and related areas of information architecture, taxonomy/classification, and search and retrieval.

Report scope ; Table of figures ; Introduction ; Why taxonomy ; Towards an integrated information architecture - taxonomy and search ; The challenge of taxonomy desigh and construction ; Taxonomy and classification market analysis ; Taxonomy and classification technology ; Determining your taxonomy and classification requirements ; Standards ; Taxonomy software suppliers - market mindshare ; Appendix A - research population statistics ; Technology profiles and use cases ; Autonomy - autonomy IDOL server ; Convers - retrievalware 8 ; Indraweb - procinQ server ; Stratify - stratify discovery system ; Teragram Corporation - teragram categorizer ; Verity - k2 enterprise ; End note.