CNet is a leading-edge software house specialising in semantic-based knowledge and content systems. We are developing systems to aquire, organise, personalise and share the knowledge embedded in web, databases and multimedia content. Our technologies achieve semantic interoperability between heterogeneous information sources and services, and allow our customers to maximise automation of the knowledge life cycle.

We are focused on content rich industries such as news and media, construction and  facility management and professional publishing, but any company or organisation that needs to improve their knowledge management and streamline information flows will benefit from our solutions.

The core in our offering is Visual Net Server, a semantic annotation server. It is used to capture knowledge from raw information and multimedia content in webs and other distributed repositories to turn poorly structured information into machine-processable knowledge. This allows our customers to improve their work flow efficiency and streamline business processes reducing their costs.

Our semantic technologies also allow our users to organise their digital assets and deliver tailor made information products and services to their customers. Other products include NewsToBuy for knowledge and content management as well as Termado for management of ontologies and term catalogues and adEtransact for information exchange in the advertising industry.

CNet strongly believes in open standards and is involved  in several standardisation activities based on XML. We are playing a main role in specifying and establishing AdsML as a standard for exchanging information among actors in the advertising industry. We have also helped the swedish building industry standardise a vocabulary, BSAB,  for semantic classification and categorisation of construction components as well as establishing a standard for information exchange, sbXML.

CNet Svenska AB is a spin-off company from Swedish IT research and was originally founded by a research group from SISU, Swedish Institute for Systems Development, which had been working in the European research project Multimedia Broker. We still keep close contacts and collaborate with different R&D partners in Europe.