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Exalead has joined the HP Business Information and Intelligence Program, which is a specialized extension of the HP Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP). This partner program is designed for Business Information and Intelligence ISVs who, like Exalead, are developing solutions on HP Integrity, HP Neoview or HP BladeSystems. Exalead CloudView is a family of solutions that automatically collect, structure and contextualize high volumes of unstructured and structured content from a number of data sources scattered across the enterprise. Exalead customers around the globe improve information search, discovery, management, security, and storage through unified information access and search; a deeply structured view of structured and unstructured content; and a rich, contextualized presentation of information. http://www.Exalead.com

See Exalead at Gilbane Boston
Westin Copley Hotel, December 3-4 2008
http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html

Endeca Technologies, Inc. unveiled its new Digital Asset Navigator solution, a search and information access solution designed for media companies, content publishers, advertising agencies and marketing departments, and the latest addition to Endeca's media and publishing-specific information access solutions. Designed to complement and extract latent value from Digital Asset Management (DAM) initiatives, it provides information access capabilities to explore, find and evaluate images, graphics, audio/video files, and other high-value digital assets. Endeca's Digital Asset Navigator integrates related data from DAM and content management systems, as well as databases, file servers, enterprise applications and other source systems. And it takes advantage of Endeca's security capabilities, designed in collaboration with the intelligence community, to ensure that users only have access to data they are approved to see and use, decreasing legal and compliance costs. http://www.endeca.com

ISYS Search Software announced the arrival of ISYS:web 9. Through its Intelligent Content Analysis, ISYS notes key characteristics about a content collection, such as metadata patterns and entities, and leverages these facets in the interface to provide a fluid search and discovery process. ISYS' Intelligent Content Analysis manifests itself in the form of several parametric search and refinement options. At index time, ISYS notes aspects like entities in the full text; commonly recurring metadata values in semi-structured and database formats; location of files; dates and numbers; and position of words. These characteristics are then exploited either as a front-end interface for parametric search, or as refinement options within search results. Intelligent Query Expansion is designed to give users greater context and avenues to pursue, and offers suggestions based on your query and the document. ContextCogs are snippets of relevant and contextual information pulled from third-party sources and displayed alongside standard ISYS results. Intelligence Clouds enable rapid navigation of key information. ISYS:web now handles most search requests concurrently with a higher throughput. ISYS now offers both automatic and designable search forms. To expand ISYS:web's tuning capabilities, ISYS now provides administrators with the ability to adjust the weighting on entire collections of documents. ISYS automatically identifies identical documents and either removes them from the results or visually marks them. ISYS:web Federator allows customers to federate their searches across both ISYS and non-ISYS content sources; Exchange Indexing. For responding in a timely manner to discovery requests, ISYS:web enables administrators to centrally create and manage individual indexes for each user's email account. http://www.isys-search.com

Google announced they now support Microsoft Office OOXML (Office Open XML) files in Gmail and web search. This means you can now view documents created using Microsoft Office 2007: .docx documents, .xslx spreadsheets and .pptx presentations as HTML. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/view-as-html-office-open-xml-files.html

Lighthouse Seminars announced a reminder that the special "early-bird" discount for the Gilbane Boston conference to be held at the Westin Copley hotel December 2-4, is available through November 4th 7th. See http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html

ZyLAB announced the release of ZyIMAGE 5.0 Service Pack 7, which adds new features and enhancements to ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform (IAP). ZyIMAGE IAP is a complete XML-based system that provides a foundation for the archiving and long-term management of organizations' critical information assets, including digitized paper documents, electronic files, e-mail and attachments, and multimedia. The IAP's core technology enables users to find, access, and organize specific data through a standard browser. Users can add additional modules to create the exact solutions they require for specific types of projects or business processes including records management, e- discovery, e-mail archiving, knowledge management and workflow. The ZyIMAGE Internet search engine integration module enables users to post and share information available in ZyLAB Archives to Internet Search Engines such as Google and Yahoo. Sitemaps are used to alert Internet search engines about the existence of ZyLAB documents. The ZyIMAGE TIFF production module converts electronic documents into a scanned format (TIFF and XML) for archiving purposes. With Search folders, users can now create a table of contents based on predefined queries, eliminating the need to manually maintain a table of contents. With the new ZyIMAGE Service Monitor, it is possible to monitor multiple index and OCR servers and automatically recover and restart them in a network environment. There is also deeper language support for East European and Catalan added as interface languages. http://www.zylab.com

LTU technologies announced a new version of its LTU engine, that packages LTU's suite of image and video content control and search tools into one platform, using a single application programming interface (API). Designed for government agencies and commercial enterprises, LTU engine powers the technology to control, organize, search, or identify images and video within large databases. The platform now also features new local matching and color search capabilities. Local matching enables the user to detect small, common parts between two images, or logos, within an image or video clip. Color search enables the user to sort and identify images according to various shades of color, compute color palettes for collections of objects or images or suggest color arrangements based on the colors used within a collection. With the integration of LTU's multimedia content control and search tools, law enforcement agencies worldwide identify inappropriate and illegal content on seized computers, most often related to child pornography. Commercial enterprises have also deployed LTU's solutions to monitor the image and video content on their own corporate networks, as well as protect intellectual property in the form of brand logos, proprietary documents and other visual assets vulnerable to copyright infringement. http://www.ltutech.com

Autonomy announced Autonomy ControlPoint, an information governance solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Autonomy ControlPoint facilitates governance tasks, including classification, preservation or disposition of information assets based on its ability to understand the meaning of information being collaborated across different SharePoint servers and other content repositories. With the ability to understand more than 1,000 file- types, the new Autonomy solution centrally manages any information asset and applies legal hold and disposition from across different SharePoint servers and other repositories located on a company's WAN. The solution delivers a broad set of functionalities specifically designed to address the information governance challenges with MOSS, including: Integration into SharePoint environment - More than 400 IDOL connectors are available to ensure that users are able to seamlessly retrieve over 1000+ file content types in MOSS securely and efficiently; Dashboard views enabling automated information management - Customized dashboards provide alerting and transparency to information management processes within MOSS; increases visibility and streamlines governance actions like legal hold and disposition; Management of all SharePoint content in place to eliminate the need to replicate content from other servers and re-architect SharePoint environments to support governance needs. It also helps ensure that information related to a legal hold or regulatory matter is not accidentally deleted while in use; Delivers enhanced analytics, security and reporting mechanisms , ans support for clustering, faceted navigation and visualizations. http://www.autonomy.com/controlpoint

Recommind announced the immediate availability of its Insite Legal Hold solution. Insite Legal Hold helps enterprises explore, preserve and collect electronically stored information (ESI) to prepare for and comply with litigation, regulatory oversight and investigations. Insite Legal Hold allows enterprises to explore information where it resides, before it is collected and placed on hold in response to an investigation or lawsuit. This helps Insite Legal Hold improve the speed and accuracy of the legal hold process. Platform-agnostic and customizable, Insite Legal Hold features pre-integration with numerous enterprise data sources, including content management systems, email and archiving systems and intranets and portals, allowing for installation with existing network infrastructures. Additional features include: Deep analytical tools, including Early Risk Assessment technology; Search technology, including integrated conceptual, full Boolean and keyword search; The ability to manage myriad data sources, custodians and matters simultaneously; Auditability and reporting, including full exception handling and chain-of-custody reports; Built-in processing of data (i.e. de-duplication, near-duping, email threading, etc.) By using Insite Legal Hold in conjunction with Recommind's Axcelerate eDiscovery software, enterprises can protect and prepare themselves for any type of internal or external investigation or legal action. http://www.recommind.com

X1 Technologies, Inc., announced its follow-up enterprise search solution for Microsoft SharePoint 2007. In August of 2008, X1 Technologies announced a strategy to deliver enterprise search solutions to Microsoft SharePoint 2007 customers. The first product was the X1 Content Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 that works with the X1 Enterprise Server to provide for indexing SharePoint data beyond that of Microsoft Search Server. The follow-up product is a "light" Content Connector that allows X1 Professional Client customers to connect directly to Microsoft SharePoint 2007 as a target for search. Customers can search for documents, lists and sites using both X1 search terminology along with SharePoint's Keyword Query syntax. These searches can be federated (presented in a single results view) with local and remote searches to provide a unified query interface. The X1 Content Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 client is now available and can be downloaded for trial. For customers who require a rich, full feature enterprise search solution for Microsoft SharePoint 2007, X1 recommends the server based connector that goes beyond the limitations of the native SharePoint Query. Whether customers choose the Client or Server based Content Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2007, both allow them to search for any type of content that may reside in SharePoint, email, personal computers, file servers or enterprise applications. http://www.x1.com