software founded 1997 headquarters palo alto california u.s. key people david gilmour founder and ceo products activenet illumio number of employees 30 2007 website www.tacit.com tacit software was a company that provided expertise and knowledge search software for enterprises and consumers . it was acquired by oracle corp in november 2008 and its assets were rolled into the oracle beehive collaboration platform . 1 2 tacit was founded in 1997 as tacit knowledge systems by david gilmour the founder of giga information group now owned by forrester research and was headquartered in palo alto ca. 3 the company was funded by draper fisher jurvetson steve jurvetson was a company director woodside fund alta partners and the royal bank of canada rbc . in q tel was also an early investor in the company . the firm was acquired by oracle in november 2008 . 1 contents 1 company history 2 intellectual property 3 references 4 external links company history edit tacit s first product knowledgemail was released in late 1999 . knowledgemail was an expertise location system that automatically read email and other documents to form profiles of user interests and expertise . in 2003 tacit introduced activenet a browser based version of knowledgemail . in 2003 2004 several companies trialed activenet and tacit s underlying technologies including glaxosmithkline northrop grumman and lockheed martin . 4 lockheed martin for example piloted tacit over five other expertise location vendors and later rolled the product out in its space systems division . ron remy the deputy cio for space systems said we had a beryllium welding problem solved by linking up two people who worked down the hall from each other and they didn t realize that one had the answer the other one needed to solve this very serious technical problem that was holding up the entire project . we deemed the pilot to be very successful . 5 in 2006 tacit introduced a new product called illumio . illumio made tacit s expertise location technology available to everyday internet users . tacit was acquired by oracle in 2008 . oracle shut down the product in 2010 . intellectual property edit tacit holds 13 patents . 6 these patents pertain to the following creation of user profiles with public and private components assigning confidence levels to topics as they relate to users methodologies for accessing user profile information references edit a b silicontap.com 1 http www.oracle.com us corporate press 017678 en davidson paul . june 13 2004 usa today tacit finds matches in company e mail kaihla paul . january 1 2004 business 2.0 the matchmaker in the machine d agostino debra . july 9 2004 cio insight web extra who s on first united states patent office patents 6115709 6421669 6154783 6205472 6253202 6377949 6405197 6640229 6647384 6668251 6711570 6832224 6970879 external links edit official website tacit.com wayback machine pc magazine startup illumio asks hey can you help me find this activenet 3.2 review application development tools tacit makes the collaboration connection computerwire tacit puts process spin on expertise location retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tacit software & oldid 677347268 categories companies based in palo alto californiasoftware companies established in 1997software companies based in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 august 2015 at 17 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view