<p><!--[if lt IE 7]&gt;--> end javascript to email the article PR Web</p><p>McLean, VA, US and Stevenage, UK (PRWEB UK) 23 September 2012</p><p>Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software, and developer of the Smart Content Framework, has entered into a partnership agreement with Firstservis, the provider of high-end IT consultancy to some of the largest companies in Australia and South East Asia. The arrangement brings together Concept Searching's expertise in metadata generation, search, classification and taxonomy management, and Firstservis' extensive knowledge of enterprise search process and technology.</p><p>Technology from Concept Searching will complement the Firstservis Enterprise Search Practice's best practice and thought leadership in information management and access solutions across Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. As a Microsoft partner, Firstservis is unique in its focus on search and metadata and its depth of experience on the Microsoft FAST platform. Andrew Young, Information Strategy Lead at Firstservis, said, "Increasingly, enterprises are struggling to tag information with the necessary metadata for effective information governance and retrieval. As information creation becomes more and more dispersed in terms of users and devices we expect manual processes to break under the strain. For this reason we have partnered with Concept Searching to bring its unique semantic metadata management and auto-classification software technology to these shores."</p><p><a href="http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-09-23&val=511536&cat=tech">Keep reading...</a></p>