<s>
Corporate	B-Application
taxonomy	I-Application
is	O
the	O
hierarchical	B-Algorithm
classification	I-Algorithm
of	O
entities	O
of	O
interest	O
of	O
an	O
enterprise	O
,	O
organization	O
or	O
administration	O
,	O
used	O
to	O
classify	O
documents	O
,	O
digital	O
assets	O
and	O
other	O
information	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
at	O
any	O
level	O
of	O
granularity	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Corporate	B-Application
taxonomies	I-Application
are	O
increasingly	O
used	O
in	O
information	O
systems	O
(	O
particularly	O
content	B-Protocol
management	I-Protocol
and	O
knowledge	O
management	O
systems	O
)	O
,	O
as	O
a	O
way	O
to	O
promote	O
discoverability	O
and	O
allow	O
instant	O
access	O
to	O
the	O
right	O
information	O
within	O
exponentially	O
growing	O
volumes	O
of	O
data	O
in	O
learning	O
organizations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Relatively	O
simple	O
systems	O
based	O
on	O
semantic	O
networks	O
and	O
taxonomies	O
proved	O
to	O
be	O
a	O
serious	O
competitor	O
to	O
heavy	O
data	B-Application
mining	I-Application
systems	I-Application
and	O
behavior	O
analysis	O
software	O
in	O
contextual	O
filtering	O
applications	O
used	O
for	O
routing	O
customer	O
requests	O
,	O
"	O
pushing	O
"	O
content	O
on	O
a	O
Web	O
site	O
or	O
delivering	O
product	O
advertising	O
in	O
a	O
targeted	O
and	O
pertinent	O
way	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
powerful	O
approach	O
to	O
map	O
and	O
retrieve	O
unstructured	B-Application
data	I-Application
,	O
taxonomies	O
allow	O
efficient	O
solutions	O
in	O
the	O
management	O
of	O
corporate	O
knowledge	O
,	O
in	O
particular	O
in	O
complex	O
organizational	O
models	O
for	O
workflows	B-Operating_System
,	O
human	O
resources	O
or	O
customer	O
relations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
an	O
extension	O
of	O
traditional	O
thesauri	O
and	O
classifications	O
used	O
in	O
a	O
company	O
,	O
a	O
corporate	B-Application
taxonomy	I-Application
is	O
usually	O
the	O
fruit	O
of	O
a	O
large	O
harmonization	O
effort	O
involving	O
most	O
departments	O
of	O
the	O
organization	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Such	O
shortcuts	B-Operating_System
include	O
the	O
licensing	O
of	O
ready-built	O
taxonomies	O
and	O
vocabularies	O
with	O
which	O
to	O
enhance	O
their	O
search	O
results	O
quickly	O
.	O
</s>
