Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that the company has acquired Kopek AS, a developer of a secure online content access platform. The content access platform incorporates security, transport, identification, access control, personalization, payments and clearing, all in one solution. The system works transparently with all types of media and content, including Web pages, Web services, images, email, live video streams, audio, applications, and Internet network access, across all device types. http://www.fastsearch.com
Category: Enterprise search & search technology (Page 47 of 62)
Research, analysis, and news about enterprise search and search markets, technologies, practices, and strategies, such as semantic search, intranet collaboration and workplace, ecommerce and other applications.
Before we consolidated our blogs, industry veteran Lynda Moulton authored our popular enterprise search blog. This category includes all her posts and other enterprise search news and analysis. Lynda’s loyal readers can find all of Lynda’s posts collected here.
For older, long form reports, papers, and research on these topics see our Resources page.
Endeca introduced the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP) – a new platform built specifically to address an emerging market that is attempting to change the way people access and interact with information. The platform is designed to help people find, analyze and understand information in ways not possible with search engine, database and business intelligence solutions. Powered by Endeca’s MDEX Engine technology, it fuses the ease of search and browsing with the analytical capabilities of business intelligence. The Endeca Information Access Platform aids information-based problem solving across a wide variety of business processes, including eCommerce, marketing campaign analysis, product design and parts reuse, knowledge management, and customer service. To meet specific industry and application requirements, Endeca offers a range of Market Solutions, each designed to accelerate time-to-market. These solutions combine the benefits of the platform with unique application modules and deep market and application-specific services expertise. In a related announcement, Endeca has also unveiled a new, expanded line of these solutions. http://www.endeca.com
Also courtesy of Bob Doyle, we can point you to video podcasts of a session on taxonomies with experts Theresa Regli and Seth Earley. This was part of the CMPros Summit last month held in conjunction with the Boston Gilbane Conference.
Yahoo jumps into the deep end of the pool. This puts the big three (Yahoo, Microsoft, Google) even more on the same path. Competition is a good thing, of course, and here it means that the expansion of content being indexed will only accelerate.
I have commented before on research done by vendors. Such research is not independent of course, but sometimes you look at the results, and some of it makes perfect sense. Take this chart from a presentation by Jonathan Bruce, XQuery Evangelist for DataDirect Technologies. Jonathan was the featured speaker at a recent meeting of The Washington Area SGML / XML Users Group.
If you are interested in XQuery, I would recommend downloading the whole presentation.
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced an OEM partnership with EMC Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, FAST InStream will be integrated into the recently released Documentum 5.3 platform. FAST InStream provides XML searching, multilingual support to Documentum 5.3. Supporting both structured and unstructured data, FAST InStream is for all types of software applications, including enterprise portals and intranet sites, ECM systems, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, Business Intelligence (BI) suites and applications, as well as storage and archiving solutions. http://www.fastsearch.com
Inxight Software, Inc. announced that it has completed its purchase of the federated search and alert technology product line, formerly called Enterprise Discovery Suite, from Intelliseek, Inc. The product line has been renamed Inxight SmartDiscovery Awareness Server. Inxight SmartDiscovery Awareness Server helps users derive insight and intelligence from hundreds of information sources through a single interface. Alerts automatically inform users of new and updated information. SmartDiscovery Awareness Server is preconfigured out-of-the-box to search and track relevant data from hundreds of online sources, including deep web sources such as patent databases and SEC filings and public web sources such as CNET and MSN Search. Enterprises can also create brokers to new information sources rapidly through a point-and-click interface, extending the searching and alerting capabilities to a wide-range of subscription and enterprise sources. Inxight SmartDiscovery Awareness Server is generally available now.
For Immediate Release:
Microsoft, DocSoft, Idiom, Solace Software Join Impressive List of Sponsors, Exhibitors
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Alexandria, VA and Cambridge, MA, May 12, 2005. XTech 2005 (formerly XML Europe) and the Gilbane Conference on Content Management today announced four new industry sponsors for their conferences, being held concurrently 24-27 May, 2005, at the Amsterdam RAI Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) joins Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) and Blast Radius at the Gold Sponsorship level. At the Silver Sponsorship level, DocSoft, Idiom and Solace Systems have been added to a list of sponsors that includes Antenna House, Astoria Software, AuthorIT, Exegenix, Fast Search & Transfer Inc., Immediacy, O’Reilly, Percussion Software, Quark, Quasar Technology, Syncro Soft, and Vamosa. Justsystem Corporation is the Diamond Sponsor of both events.
“The list of sponsors and exhibitors at these events is truly a ‘who’s who’ in XML and related technologies,” says Marion L. Elledge, Vice President of Information Technology Alliances and Conferences, IDEAlliance. “From industry giants to smaller, cutting-edge firms, they cover the full spectrum of what’s happening in XML and content management today.”
“We couldn’t be more excited about the companies participating,” says Frank Gilbane, Gilbane Conference Chair. “Combined with the educational and networking opportunities of the two conferences, no one in the industry can afford to miss this unprecedented joint event.”
For information on presentations, sponsorships, exhibiting and other marketing opportunities at XTech 2005, visit http://www.xtech-conference.org. For general information and to register to attend, visit http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/registration.asp.
For more information on the Gilbane Conference on Content Management, visit: https://gilbane.com/Amsterdam_05_program.html
About IDEAlliance
IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership organization. Its mission is to advance user-driven, cross-industry solutions for all publishing and content-related processes by developing standards, fostering business alliances, and identifying best practices. Founded in 1966 as the Graphic Communications Association, IDEAlliance has been a leader in information technology – developing Document Markup Metalanguage (GENCODE), sponsoring the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and fostering eXtensible Markup Language (XML). IDEAlliance builds on these languages to create specifications that enhance efficiency and speed information in all aspects of publishing and content-related processes. Learn more about IDEAlliance at www.idealliance.org.
About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. serves the content management community with publications, conferences and consulting services. The Gilbane Report administers the Content Technology Works program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Technologies, Atomz, Astoria Software, ClearStory Systems (OTCBB:INCC), Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM ), Idiom Technologies, Mark Logic, Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX), Trados, Vasont, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). www.gilbane.com
About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars’ events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration.
www.lighthouseseminars.com

