Platform

Your Adaptive Knowledge Network

Gain a secure, scalable, and intelligent system to unlock insights, enhance collaboration, and power AI-driven decision-making.

Turn Your Enterprise Knowledge into Advantage with APEX

APEX, our Adaptive Knowledge Network, is the platform behind Contours, KiteEdge’s unique knowledge management and research discovery tool. Now available as a cloud-hosted PaaS with Toolkit APIs, APEX enables your teams to connect and manage your enterprise knowledge graph, integrating structured and unstructured data into an Ontology-backed Decision Intelligence platform.

The problem

Information Overload, Disconnected Data

Many enterprises struggle to unify information across systems, despite investing in AI and data initiatives. Existing solutions often lack context-aware search, adaptability, and seamless AI integration.

People & Technology Working Together

APEX solves this by combining AI, knowledge graphs, and dynamic ontologies, ensuring precision, relevance, and traceability across your enterprise data.

AI-driven insights surface relevant information across all indexed documents.

Ontology-backed search adapts dynamically, replacing static configurations.

Results ranked by user relevance, ensuring personalised, high-value outputs.

User feedback updates the ontology in real-time, capturing evolving knowledge.

Faceted search and citations provide traceability and deeper exploration.

API Toolkit Features

A suite of APIs to ingest, organise, search, and manage enterprise data, enabling seamless AI integration and knowledge discovery.

Data Ingestion API

Task: Create a unified, structured data repository.
Solution: Enterprise content is ingested into cloud storage via automated pipelines—triggered manually or on a schedule.

Ontology API

Task: Build and manage a knowledge graph for enterprise data.
Solution: Entities and relationships are dynamically added, edited, and mapped to schema-based knowledge structures.

Users API

Task: Control access with granular user and team management.
Solution: Manage users and teams via APEX’s API or admin UI.
Integration: Supports enterprise SSO authentication (TBC).

Search API

Task: Search across all integrated enterprise data.
Solution: A multi-stage query process:

Integrated Enterprise Data

Unify and secure enterprise data in an Azure-hosted environment, ensuring governance, traceability, and AI-driven insights.

Secure and Compliant

Available within the Microsoft Azure Marketplace Q3 2025
Built using Microsoft’s Best Practices ‘Zero-trust’ architecture model for network security and accountability.
Data and services are hosted within the customer’s own managed MS Azure resource directory in order to maintain your data security and privacy.

Support and Maintenance

Cost and Service Level

Enterprise scaling recommendations and associated projected costs are available on request.
Projected hosting costs are available via the Azure Marketplace listing. Basic hosting capabilities will be suitable for most SMEs.
3 tiers of support and maintenance contract are available, please contact us for more details on these SLAs.

APEX PaaS Middleware Solution

A secure, zero-trust architecture hosted in your own Azure environment, giving you full control and compliance.