iManage, Inc. announced its new OEM program that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) and application service providers (ASPs) to quickly bring to market tightly integrated, private-labeled applications from iManage, including document management, collaboration, knowledge management and portals. The program targets ISVs and ASPs offering new content-rich applications such as eLearning, contract management, supplier relationship management (SRM) and product lifecycle management (PLM). Under the OEM program, partners can quickly add scalable and secure collaborative content management features including document version control, event notification, foldering, check-in/check-out, audit trails, integration with desktop applications and search and retrieval. iManage Worksite MP is an enterprise class, multi-platform, J2EE compliant Java-based solution, based on standards such as XML/XSL. WorkSite MP operates across Windows NT, Linux and Solaris platforms. www.imanage.com
Category: Enterprise search & search technology (Page 52 of 60)
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.
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Mondosoft announced that the latest release of its site search and reporting solution, MondoSearch 5.0, now supports Microsoft’s .NET technology. MondoSearch 5.0 enables quick and easy access to relevant data across all Web environments using the latest .NET technology for sophisticated Web managers and users. In addition to support for .NET, MondoSearch 5.0 moves beyond traditional enterprise search by providing a suite of complementary tools to manage the content lifecycle including collection and analysis; enhancement and improvement; production and management and content delivery. BehaviorTracking is a complete reporting and analysis tool that provides insights into the search activity and user behavior on a web site. BehaviorTracking collects information about users’ search queries, product requests, IP numbers and domain names, about their search success, chosen links and more. The InformationManager provides a set of tools that make it easy for site owners to improve content, adjust relevancy and customize data for greater search success and site usability. www.mondosoft.com
Nstein Technologies Inc. and Gale announced an agreement to provide Gale’s subject taxonomy through Nstein’s automated indexing software. This agreement will enhance content search and retrieval services and extend market reach for both companies in many domains, including: business/financial services, law, medicine and health, technology, and social sciences. Gale’s 70,000 node subject taxonomy will be pre-packaged within Nstein’s Intelligent Categorizer and Nfinder automated indexing and search tools. This will enable Gale, Nstein, and their partners to license and deploy a hybrid product to enterprises around the globe. www.gale.com, www.thomson.com, www.nstein.com
Atomz announced enhancements to its enterprise Web content management solution, Atomz Publish, and Web site search application, Atomz Search. Atomz Search can now crawl and index Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel file formats. Visitors at Web sites that use Atomz Search will be able to see and directly access Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents from within the search results. In addition, Atomz Search customers can utilize the Metadata Management Interface to associate metadata with Microsoft Office documents and control the positioning of these documents within the search results. Search now provides support for Korean language searching, including a dictionary and full character set encodings. Search customers can now create scripts that modify content between when it is crawled and when it is indexed. Atomz added tags that allow Atomz Publish customers to incorporate non-HTML content such as JavaScript, PHP and ASP code; to define values (including text, HTML or nested Atomz Publish tags) which may be reused anywhere on templated pages; and to display content conditionally depending on the mode Atomz Publish is in: Edit, Preview or Publish. Atomz Publish can now upload multiple files into the system at a time. www.atomz.com
Raining Data Corporation announced availability of the developer release of its TigerLogic XML Data Management Server (XDMS) V1.0 on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. TigerLogic XDMS is information infrastructure software that provides scalability, XA-compliant transactional integrity and fine-grain search capabilities, as well as the dynamic extensibility, n-tier hierarchies and ease of use and deployment. Developers use J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA), and XML Schema, XSLT, SOAP and XPath to store and retrieve information and “eliminate the need for XML to relational data mapping”. TigerLogic XDMS bridges the gap between structured and unstructured data and provides a significant gain in performance of XML data access. TigerLogic XDMS complements Enterprise Application and Information Integration (EAI and EII), RDBMS and application server software to provide a high-performance XML-querieable and extensible mid-tier platform for storage of business information and application meta-data. Developers can tap into business intelligence across structured operational data stores (ODS) residing in RDBMS as well as unstructured flat-file text documents, images, email and spreadsheets housed in shared file systems or content repositories. The developer release of Raining Data’s TigerLogic XDMS is available for Windows 2000 and XP. Product license fee pricing starts at $25,000 per server. Availability on Solaris, Linux and other platforms is scheduled for 2003. www.rainingdata.com
Verity Inc. and Inktomi Corp. jointly announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Verity will acquire from Inktomi the assets relating to Inktomi’s enterprise search software business, which includes basic search, categorization and content refinement capabilities, as well as its XML technology assets. Verity will pay a purchase price of $25 million in cash, and will also assume Inktomi’s obligations under certain existing enterprise search business contracts, including customer support obligations. The companies currently anticipate closing the transaction in the next 30 to 60 days, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Verity anticipates the transaction will be accretive to earnings per share within the first six months following closing. Under the terms of the parties’ agreement, Verity will gain access to Inktomi’s customer base of 2,500 companies worldwide. www.inktomi.com, www.verity.com
WebWare Corporation announced an integration to Interwoven 5. The integrated Interwoven Solution for Media Asset Management (MAM) will enable enterprises to access their rich media assets within e-business initiatives managed by Interwoven 5, such as enterprise portals, corporate intranets, and external web properties. The connector to Interwoven 5 enables Interwoven users within the TeamSite environment to search, thumbnail, preview, transform and aggregate rich media assets into their Interwoven managed content. Interflow and WebWare engineers jointly developed the system extension that allows Interwoven users to directly access rich media and video files from Interwoven’s TeamSite application. www.interwoven.com, www.webwarecorp.com, www.interflow.com
Inktomi Corp. announced the availability of Enterprise Search 5.0. New feature highlights include: improved relevance and query, quick summaries, spell check, and administration user interface enhancements. Inktomi Enterprise Search 5.0 is available as a standalone application and is also included in a new enterprise bundle designed specifically for large, information intensive organizations. Based on a CPU and user-based pricing model, the enterprise bundle supports indexing of an unlimited number of documents across an enterprise. The new bundle includes Inktomi Enterprise Search 5.0, Inktomi Classifier 2.0, connectors for two database servers, the Inktomi Security Module as well as full linguistic support for up to four languages. Organizations with limited document requirements can still purchase the individual products on a per-document pricing model. www.inktomi.com
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