Category: Enterprise search & search technology (Page 54 of 61)

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

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

Fast Search & Transfer and Momentum Solutions announced a VAR agreement, providing Momentum Solutions with FAST Master Reseller status worldwide. FAST Data Search will be integrated as the core technology of Momentum’s enterprise content management solution, Momentum Enterprise. Momentum Solutions will integrate additional enterprise-class tools, including the FAST Data Search real-time filtering capabilities, to build a solution suite for commercial and government applications. www.momentum-solutions.com, www.fastsearch.com

Convera announced the release of twenty domain-specific semantic network cartridges to enhance enterprise search accuracy, relevancy and personalization. The plug-and-play cartridges, which come from Convera’s recent acquisition of Semantix Inc., allow customers to work with vocabularies more relevant to their specific business or industry. The new pre-packaged cartridges plug into Convera’s RetrievalWare enterprise search, retrieval and categorization solution, and join Convera’s existing selection of cartridges that support a wide range of languages. The twenty semantic network cartridges, supported by RetrievalWare’s concept-based searching method, include thousands of terms and concepts unique to the following industries: Army, Biology, Chemistry, Computers, Electronics, Finance, Food Science, Geography, Geology, Health Sciences, Information Science, Law, Mathematics, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), Petroleum Natural Gas & Petrochemicals, Pharmacology, Physics, Plastics, Rubber, and Telecommunications. www.convera.com