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How PTFS Technologies Can Serve Tribal Nations

Across the United States, Indian Affairs serves 575 federally recognized tribes [1], and each tribal government keeps records that matter: land

How Federated Search Tools Like PTFS Knowvation Are Helping Medical Research

Medical research runs on data, but that data rarely lives in one place. Patient records sit in hospital systems, trial results in sponsor archives,

What PTFS’s Library and Records Tools Offer Schools

Schools face two information problems at once: stretched library programs and growing piles of records. In Maryland’s 2025–2026 survey, the state

The Future of Federated Search, Part 3: Trust at Query Time

Everything that makes federated search so appealing to AI also makes it harder to secure. Live access to many systems at once is exactly what an

The Future of Federated Search, Part 2- The New Plumbing

If you ask anyone who has built a federated search system what the hardest part was, the answer is rarely the search itself. It is the connectors.

The Future of Federated Search, Part 1: From Search Box to AI Backbone

For most of its history, federated search has been a quiet, practical idea. Instead of copying every database, file share, and intranet into one giant

Mapping the Where: Knowvation GS and Public-Facing Digital Collections

Knowvation's geospatial roots run deep. The 2015 rebrand was unveiled at GEOINT, and the platform's geospatial extension, Knowvation GS, remains

Six Things PTFS’s Technology Can Do That the Competition Can’t

There's no shortage of vendors selling "AI-powered enterprise search" right now — it's become one of those phrases that shows up on every homepage. So

Why Federated Search Actually Matters — And How It’s Changed the Information Industry

Anyone who's worked inside a large organization knows the feeling: you need one answer, and it's hiding somewhere across four different systems that

M-23-07 in 2026: Where the Records Mandate Stands Now

The June 30, 2024 deadline for M-23-07, the OMB/NARA memo that pushed federal agencies to ditch paper records for good, has passed. But if you assumed

A Single UAS Flight Can Generate Thousands of Files. Here’s Where They All Go.

A routine drone inspection of a bridge or a stretch of rail line can produce thousands of individual images and video clips in under an hour. Multiply

What Is Federated Search? A 2026 Guide

Data, trapped in Silos Federated search lets a single query reach across multiple, separately managed systems — databases, document repositories,