Plumtree Software announced the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite, a solution for building a volume of Web applications on a variety of infrastructures, managed within a single environment. The Enterprise Web Suite is based on new versions of every major Plumtree product: the Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0, Plumtree Search, Plumtree Collaboration Server 3.0 and Plumtree Content Server 5.0. The suite also features a new product, the Plumtree Enterprise Web Development Kit (EDK), for creating applications from Web services running on different platforms. A new version of Plumtree Studio Server, for building database-driven forms and services in the Enterprise Web without coding, is anticipated to be available in the summer. Plumtree has scaled its portal to act as an enterprise-wide framework for building, managing and using a large number of these applications. The Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite is now available in a beta release, and is expected to be generally available later this quarter. www.plumtree.com
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Inmagic, Inc. announced the release of Inmagic Content Server, which combines the advantages of a database management environment with high speed search and categorization, to make finding relevant information fast, easy and precise. Inmagic Content Server allows the business user to create content as well as integrate existing content from internal and external sources, deploy that content to Web pages on intranets, extranets and the Internet, and organize and manage information flow so the databases they create drive the content for end-users to access. A logical extension of the Inmagic core technology that has been developed over 20 years of working closely with information professionals from around the world, Inmagic Content Server is built on Microsoft SQL Server to provide a breadth of content management solutions, from the single department or workgroup to global deployment of an enterprise-wide system. www.inmagic.com
Jeeves Solutions, a division of Ask Jeeves, Inc. announced the availability of a major upgrade to its product, JeevesOne. The ability to search multiple backend systems simultaneously and deliver results in real time, improved relevance with Precise Answers, and an easy-to-use Administrative Console are among the featured enhancements. JeevesOne 3.0 is an enterprise search platform, offering a comprehensive combination of fourth generation natural language processing (NLP) search technology, analytics and enterprise connectivity. Whether the answer resides in unstructured Web content or structured data sources, JeevesOne can make information accessible in real time and in one place through its Enterprise Integration Server (EIS). JeevesOne 3.0’s flexible output determines both how information is presented and what information is presented, returning the best answer available to a user’s question. www.jeevessolutions.com/products/index.asp
Vivisimo, Inc. unveiled a free online service that automatically categorizes the search results from FirstGov.gov – the U.S. Government’s official web portal. Vivisimo’s new service helps citizens find government information quickly and easily by organizing FirstGov search results into meaningful subject categories. FirstGov provides a comprehensive search of government information including over 51 million web pages from federal and state governments and U.S. territories. A FirstGov search can produce 1000 or more search results in a long ranked list. Vivisimo’s automatic document clustering technology improves the FirstGov search and helps users sort through the results.
Convera and Intelliseek announced a partnership designed to extend distribution and bring greater functionality to their current product offerings. Under the agreement, Convera will add new federated search capability to its product line by offering Intelliseek’s Enterprise Search Server (ESS) solution as an optional component of Convera’s RetrievalWare search and categorization platform. Intelliseek will become a reseller of Converas RetrievalWare product to add indexing and search of internal content to Intelliseeks product line. Intelliseek’s ESS solution is pre-configured for over 1,000 different Internet and legacy search engines. Customers can purchase an optional Agent Development Kit featuring a point-and-click interface to create new adaptors for additional sources. www.convera.com, www.intelliseek.com
Inxight Software, Inc. announced a new alliance with Plumtree Software. Plumtree has licensed Inxight’s language processing technology, Inxight LinguistX Platform, to expand the multilingual search capabilities in Plumtree Search Server. Plumtree Search Server queries and indexes content including project documents stored by Plumtree Collaboration Server, Web pages managed by Plumtree Content Server, and content indexed from file systems, Web sites and document databases into the portal’s document directory. With the added multilingual functionality from Inxight, Plumtree Search Server will provide more extensive search returns for international customers. Plumtree Search Server indexes content in the portal’s document directory and frees administrators from having to manage multiple search indexes. Inxight’s technology will add advanced linguistic features for identifying core search terms in multiple languages within Plumtree Search Server. www.inxight.com
Verity Inc. announced its Verity K2 Developer (K2D) software has been embedded into ApplicationXtender, an integrated suite of enterprise content management solutions from LEGATO Systems Inc. Verity K2D complements ApplicationXtender’s foreign language support in the enhanced search capability by supporting the languages offered by ApplicationXtender — Japanese, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. www.verity.com
Endeca and ClearForest announced a partnership that will provide customers with the ability to search, explore and navigate unstructured enterprise data. ClearForest will offer unstructured data auto tagging to customers deploying Endeca ProFind enterprise search application solutions. Endeca and ClearForest have integrated their technology products to provide a more powerful information retrieval system for large corporate and government users. Through its automated creation of metadata, ClearTags transforms unstructured content and makes it as accessible as the structured information typically found in databases. In combination with Endeca ProFind, an advanced search and Guided Navigation application, users will benefit from search and navigation of unstructured data. www.endeca.com, www.clearforest.com
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