Ask Jeeves, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement under which Kanisa, Inc. will acquire Jeeves Solutions, the enterprise software division of Ask Jeeves. Jeeves Solutions’ search technology and analytics will enable Kanisa to offer a larger, more robust suite of customer service solutions. With the sale, Ask Jeeves will focus solely on its growing Web-wide search business. Under the terms of the agreement, Kanisa will acquire substantially all assets of Jeeves Solutions including the JeevesOne technology and its approximately 40 corporate customer accounts. Kanisa will pay a purchase price of $4.25 million, of which $3.5 million will be paid in cash on closing and the remaining in a one-year promissory note for $750,000, which is subject to certain conditions. The sale is expected to close in July 2003.
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Northern Light has emerged from the Divine bankruptcy. C. David Seuss, former CEO of Northern Light, purchased the company in Divine’s 26-hour marathon bankruptcy auction held three weeks ago. After the acquisition, Seuss contacted the corporate customers for Northern Light’s SinglePoint Market Research Portal that had not fled during the Divine era and assured them that their customer support would soon return. Seuss also plans to market the never before released Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine, a 64-bit enterprise search solution, featuring Northern Light’s taxonomy and classification capability that uses Northern Light’s clustering technology. It is unclear what the plabs are for the Northern Light Web search engine. www.northernlight.com
Mercado Software Inc. announced it has released its Enterprise Search & Navigation (ESN) solution. Designed from the ground up for a web services enterprise architecture, ESN provides a solution for locating information scattered across multiple information repositories and stored in disparate data formats. ESN provides a single point of information access for users to explore all organizational information, whether it is structured, semi-structured, or unstructured content. ESN utilizes linguistic tools and hierarchical indexing that uses structure in addition to text to optimize relevancy ranking for all content types. ESN’s modular architecture is adaptive to existing systems and new data sources and is customizable. Its XML and SOAP architecture simplifies integration and maintenance. The solution is scalable to any data volume and user load, and features a quick update capability that helps keep search indices fresh. www.mercado.com
Autonomy Corporation plc announced an OEM relationship with Novell. Autonomy’s technology will be embedded in Novell exteNd Director, an interaction and portal server that enables IT organizations to deliver and maintain rich, personalized Web applications. Autonomy enhances Novell exteNd Director with its ability to analyze and rank concepts within unstructured information within its content management system. With the addition of Autonomy’s technology in Novell exteNd Director, documents and Web pages in the content management systems can be categorized, linked and delivered wherever it is needed to provide customers, partners and employees with the relevant and up-to-date information they need to be successful. www.autonomy.com
Convera announced the commercial availability of RetrievalWare 8, a new knowledge discovery platform that helps large organizations automate their knowledge management and discovery processes using an infrastructure that can be optimized for specific industry and government applications. RetrievalWare 8 integrates Convera’s enterprise search with industry-specific taxonomies and new categorization and dynamic classification software, delivering techniques for searching, navigating and discovering knowledge, including hidden relationships, patterns and trends. With RetrievalWare 8, customers have a single integrated platform that categorizes and organizes all content including unstructured text, image, video and paper assets, in addition to a variety of structured data sources. Using Convera’s dynamic classification software, end users can launch a search and automatically classify the results based on pre-defined or dynamically generated classifications made possible through the combination of multiple taxonomies. Convera has also certified ten partners as part of its new Taxonomy Developer Certification Program, including Access Innovations, Advanced Technology Systems (ATS), Bleuphish, Creative Technology Inc., IBM, KAPS Group LLC, Mitre, MZM Inc., SRA International Inc., and Veridian. www.convera.com
Plumtree Software announced the general availability of the Plumtree Portlet Framework for PeopleSoft, which allows portal managers to create portlets for displaying, searching and updating data from any PeopleSoft 8 system. The Framework can integrate virtually any PeopleSoft service into the Plumtree Corporate Portal without coding. Customers can create applications within a Plumtree portal based on services from PeopleSoft as well as services from other systems, including the search, content management and collaboration capabilities offered as part of the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite. The Portlet Framework for PeopleSoft provides a graphical environment for creating new Plumtree portlets against any standard or custom PeopleSoft Component Interface (CI). Plumtree also offers frameworks for building portlets for SAP R/3 and Siebel. These portlets can be embedded within portal applications that combine resources from many existing systems, as well as new services for collaboration, content management and search that systems such as PeopleSoft may lack. www.plumtree.com
Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity K2 Developer (K2D) release 5.0. The new version of its platform is for ISV’s that need to add discovery, organization and personalization capabilities to e-business applications such as content management, CRM, supply chain management, portal infrastructure, online commerce, and other enterprise-level programs. An important part of this latest release of Verity’s OEM technology is the Verity Organization Developer’s Kit (ODK), a set of APIs that can be integrated into enterprise applications whose performance and value will benefit from content organization and recommendation capabilities. This release of K2D also includes enhanced capabilities of Verity’s Recommendation Engine, including recommendation of queries, category recommendations, federated recommendations, Open Navigation and Dynamic Taxonomies. Interfaces are now available to allow the editing of any entity, which enable ISVs complete control over the information managed within the Recommendation Engine. www.verity.com
Autonomy Corporation plc announced an agreement with CNSI, an IT innovations provider to government agencies and businesses worldwide, to provide enterprises with effective and intelligent information management and delivery systems. www.autonomy.com, www.cns-inc.com
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