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PointCross Inc. is a enterprise software technology company, founded in late 1999 in the Silicon Valley area of California, US. They provide strategic business process management software and collaboration software such as Orchestra and Solo. The company serves companies engaged in the exploration and production of oil and gas resources or those engaged in the R&D of pharmaceutical products.

The company's Orchestra platform uses its proprietary Ontology engine to maintain relationships among data, content, people and their expertise around business contexts which can be specific concepts, topics, or matters.

Business processes are developed using a set of tools for stage-gated processes that directly use the relationships among contexts in the ontology engine and the classes of objects within them. The classes of objects within each context includes dedicated content management systems, electronic email, people and role assignments, and their expertise. A general object model for these classes within each context allows the entire organization of business information of an enterprise to be represented as a network of homogeneously structured contexts, thereby eliminating expensive data base architecture and modeling effort. Search and discovery for information is conducted within a context and in the perspective of the user; and limited to the scope of authorization or need-to-know of that user.

The company serves knowledge workers who access disparate information about the contexts in which they work and decide whether they are online or offline. The Solo client is a companion to the Orchestra platform and it automatically synchronizes the contexts on the client computer with the corresponding context in the enterprise servers.

PointCross Inc. is privately held as of September 2007.