eZioskills

eZioskills™: a Web-based development and delivery environment. Users manipulate knowledge without programming. Knowledge is accessed via questions and answers through a system generated executable. Implementation is multiplatform. Applications span a wide spectrum including: search, e-learning, diagnosis and repair.

CloverWorxs' eZioskills technology uses pattern-based modeling (PBM) as its foundation. This patented technology is a new tool for thinking about and working with knowledge. It enables the soft coding of knowledge by non-programmers, thereby removing the main technical barrier to the cost effective creation, maintenance, and use of your organization's valuable knowledge. PBM enables knowledge to be expressed as links between patterns in a "Problem space" and patterns in an "Answer space."

eZioskills is quickly installed, fast and easy to use, and inexpensive to run and maintain. With eZioskills, you can effectively manage the production and delivery of your knowledge assets. On-the-job real-time on-line problem solving is implemented via eZioskills unique interactive searching via your own Web browser.

The PBM technology is implemented as a search / knowledge engine in a Java platform based open architecture. This approach provides both a knowledge processing module, for storing, searching, and presenting knowledge, and a building block for the rapid development of your own knowledge-based software.

The eZioskills knowledge engine can index, store and manage virtually any knowledge including application knowledge, text/office documents, graphical data, sound, multimedia, etc. The knowledge items and index can be stored by the knowledge engine in an SQL database for example or the knowledge items can be stored in an external system with links to them from the knowledge base's index. The internally stored knowledge items can be archived and restored. They can also easily be exchanged with other knowledge systems using XML/XSLT and the open API (XML).

Your subject-matter expert uses the knowledge engine to encapsulate the critical images/data/information along with the appropriate questions and responses to be used by the deterministic search engine for searching and retrieval of the knowledge item. This process insures that the knowledge is 100% correct as certified by the expert. It also provides the quick and easy method for creating knowledge items from images (x-rays, diagrams, digital pictures, etc.) that have no associated text outside of the image and therefore cannot be "indexed" by full-text searching systems.