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Finding the right words isn’t always easy. If you are new to a team or company, or the information you are looking for is obscure and difficult to locate, a traditional search tool may require you to use exactly the right keywords in your search term to produce results ― and even then, things may be a little hit and miss.

But not so with Intelligent Search.

Flare’s innovative search functionality uses Natural Language Processing to analyse and understand your search term, while our comprehensive suite of taxonomies ensure that any aliases, acronyms, spelling mistakes or redundant words are accounted for when compiling and prioritising your search results. …

With over two decades of providing data and information management consultancy services to the energy industry, Flare are perfectly positioned to help you develop your information management governance policies.

Incorporating everything from process ownership and information security to establishing lines of accountability, governance is key to maintaining an effective corporate IM framework. Flare’s consultants are on hand to support you in the development and roll-out of an information governance solution tailored to your business.

Call us now if you’d like to know more. …

You know you need to tag your documents so someone can find them in the future but would you like some help doing it?

Flare’s Autotag solution automatically does the clever stuff to tag documents with the correct descriptive taxonomic terms, such as document types, well names, field names or disciplines (and others). Tags are selected by interrogating file names, file paths and/or document content, ensuring that each document is stored with the appropriate metadata and enabling better search and retrieval results.

Flare has recently released a new version of Autotag which provides greater functionality and accuracy. Multiple document type tags can now be applied to individual documents, and a new interface allows the QC of tags to be undertaken in a dynamic manner.

Get in touch if you’d like to know more. …

Intelligence Search delivers better search results based on relevancy, content and data analysis.  These enhanced results are achieved by using Artificial Intelligence to understand and contextualise not only your corporate information repositories, but also the content of the search query and the user profile of the person making it. …

Flare’s oil and gas taxonomy has set the standard for the energy industry’s document tagging, knowledge-management and free text search software for the past twenty years. Its impact has meant that information is now much easier to find and retrieve in many E&P companies across the globe.

Flare have recently extended its taxonomic coverage to all areas of renewables and associated sectors, including solar, wind, tidal, hydro, geothermal and CCUS. This means that the taxonomy can now fully support energy companies in their transition to Net Zero.

Get in touch if you’d like to know more. …

If like many companies, your content is spread across multiple repositories, it can be a challenge to find something.  You may struggle with the correct words / standards, or you may have to conduct multiple searches in different systems to be sure you’ve got everything you need.  Conversely if you are an author, where should you put your magnum opus? #InformationManagement …

Not too much news this week, so a great opportunity to wish everyone all the very best for 2022.

We’re not much for resolutions, here, but we do want to share more about our work delivering Intelligent Search, and how that can impact and benefit business.

Please reach out if you’d like to chat about what we do. …

With Christmas rapidly approaching, its that time we traditionally gather our thoughts and take stock, ready for the New Year ahead.

Following the last couple of years unique events, it can sometimes feel difficult to get to the kernel of truth/facts. But, just like a squirrel can always find the right nut, Flare’s Intelligent Search can quickly focus in on relevant information.

As an added bonus, for those who weren’t lucky enough to pick up one of our fluffy (and very popular) squirrels at recent conferences, we have created a seasonal paper squirrel for you to download and make.

As the old saying goes: “Out of small acorns fat squirrels will grow”

So, we wish you all well for the forthcoming holidays, and for happiness and health as we head into 2022! …

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Technical Language Processing (TLP) are two connected innovations that allow us to get a deeper …

Many energy companies have enterprise search solutions that allow staff to try to find and retrieve data and information from across the business. However, do you understand how good (or bad) your search solution is? Does the search give you all the correct results? Are expected items missing? Do you get swamped by poorly matched search results? Does your search tool rank the results effectively?

Flare has an established methodology for assessing how good corporate search is. We look at ranking, precision and recall, providing you with a greater understanding of your company’s search tool and its results. We provide analysis and evidence on how it may be improved to give a better user search experience, better results and a lower level of risk. …

SPDM 2021UK Online – 22nd to 26th November 2021This brand new conference is available to Society members across the globe and aims to cover data and information issues that we face in our current climate.
The presentation we will be doing at this event is schedule for 11:00 UK time on Friday 26th November:  
How Intelligent Search Can Support Digital Transformation, Lee Hatfield – Principle Consultant of Flare Solutions Ltd …

Hosted at the Business Design Centre in London, PETEX is the largest subsurface-focussed global conference and exhibition in the UK. Looking to find out more about how intelligent search works? Come along and find Flare Solutions in Booth J1. …

Achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050 will require many deep and broad changes to the way we live and work. Every sector will be affected by the transformation to some degree, and many aspects of today’s society will be unrecognisable within a few decades.  Underlying much of this transformation, advanced digital technology will act as an indispensable enabler and catalyst, supporting activities ranging from research into new materials and limitless energy sources, to monitoring and controlling the heating systems in our homes.
#COP26 #DigitalTransformation #IntelligentSearch …

This article explores why Intelligent Search has become such an in-demand technology within the energy sector and what steps you can take to transition to intelligent information management within your organisation. …

Most businesses use digital platforms to store their data due to their ease of use and versatility. Innovations in analytics …

In one of our recent papers on delivering the components of an intelligent search solution we identified the following components …