Various types of obstacles exist within businesses that keep information usage low. These include:

• Too much data, making it practically impossible to locate the useful portion.

• Inability to remember or know where desired data has been archived.
• Failure to recognize the usefulness of specific data.
• Even if someone is located, who can supply needed data, this person may not be accessible at all times.
• Data in various formats are located in different systems, necessitating the use of numerous conversion systems to locate and access complete information.
• Although a company provides information management tools, most of them require changing working habits with a substantial amount of time in re-education, and thus creating an entry barrier.

Knowledge workers within a company must spend excessive amount of time performing labor-intensive tasks in order to locate useful information from a vast store. This situation results in a reduction of time that could otherwise be spent on strategic planning and creation of competitive advantages-instead of "brainless" knowledge seeking tasks!

Tornado Knowledge Retrieval System is based on sophisticated search engine core technology, complemented by powerful cross-format data analysis capabilities to extract the most critical information from large volumes of dispersed data in various formats. The Tornado technology enables knowledge workers to obtain the needed information rapidly. At the same time, it utilizes the structure of a typical portal site on the Web, incorporating automatic linking to related data, allowing business users to easily access comprehensive and precise information in the simplest way.