iXmatch Inc. announced that its search software, iXfind, has been integrated with Microsoft Corp.’s new version of one of its .NET Enterprise Servers, Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, to provide customers an option for advanced search functionality. iXfind allows people to search structured and unstructured data across all areas of a Web site or network, including documents, catalog content, product details, and support information. iXfind provides advanced search functionality, including dynamic clustering, best bet content recommendations, document profiles, and auto-categorization. iXfind’s server controls allow customers to quickly deploy it with Content Management Server 2002. The software crawls, indexes, and classifies the content to make it searchable, with no further maintenance. The goal is to provide Content Management Server 2002 customers with advanced search functionality out of the box. www.ixmatch.com
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Inxight Software, Inc., announced Inxight SmartDiscovery 3.0. Inxight SmartDiscovery expands upon Inxight’s existing metatext extraction and analysis applications, adding features that include taxonomy management, enterprise-class categorization and a guided information retrieval environment. In addition, Inxight SmartDiscovery provides text analysis and retrieval capabilities that include on-the-fly entity extraction that identifies names of people, places, things and relationships from documents and groups them by category; automatic document summarization that creates intelligent summaries in a fraction of a second; a similar document finder that provides all other similar documents for a given document; concept search that organizes query results into a hierarchy of shared topics and themes; full text search that features basic keyword search and a Boolean information retrieval model for specifying the exact information needed; and multi-language support for accurately analyzing and retrieving information in 23 languages. Inxight SmartDiscovery is available immediately. www.inxight.com
Inktomi Corp. announced an integration between Inktomi Enterprise Search software and Microsoft Content Management Server. The integration enables Inktomi Enterprise Search to index and retrieve Web content managed by Microsoft Content Management Server. Inktomi Enterprise Search integrated with Content Management Server closely aligns the content development and retrieval processes. This integration allows Inktomi to instantly crawl and index content and associated metadata published and managed by Microsoft Content Management Server, providing users with real-time access to information. Microsoft now offers customers and systems integrators an evaluation copy of Inktomi Enterprise Search as part of its Internet business solution kit, which includes Microsoft Content Management Server. Inktomi Consulting services are available to optimize the deployment of Inktomi Enterprise Search software with Microsoft Content Management Server to meet each customer’s unique needs. www.inktomi.com
Vivisimo, Inc. added two new products to its software portfolio: the Content Integrator and Enterprise Publisher. These join Vivisimo’s Clustering Engine which automatically organizes search or database query results into meaningful hierarchical folders. The company’s Clustering Engine interfaces with any search engine or document database to transform long lists of search results into categorized information, on-the-fly, without pre-processing the source documents. The Vivisimo Content Integrator combines with the Clustering Engine to integrate search/database query results from multiple sources. The Vivisimo Enterprise Publisher, a stand-alone document clustering product, automatically clusters document collections into categories that are intelligently selected from the words and phrases contained within the documents themselves. It publishes the organized content in a PC folders-style interface.
Momentum Solutions announced the availability of Momentum Enterprise and Momentum RealTime. Momentum Enterprise extracts answers and insights from enterprise content, no matter what format or location, and delivers them to users in the form they prefer within fractions of a second. Momentum Enterprise allows companies to manage content across disparate systems and from separate sources and repositories without templates, tagging tools and workflows, or data replication, synchronization or transformation. The solution utilizes indexing and retrieval engines that work in real time on to distribute unlimited amounts of information across multiple organizations and locations. Momentum RealTime, a component of Momentum Enterprise, uses personalized filtering technology to enable real time access to data categories specified by the user. Once a user specifies search criteria, the solution continuously monitors information feeds and provides that user with instant alerts, regardless of the total number of users and the amount of information filtered.
www.momentum-solutions.com
divine, inc. announced the availability of divine SinglePoint Search, an engine for accessing enterprise content and Web search. The browser-based application features automatic classification and multi-factor relevance ranking. divine SinglePoint Search is a search tool for enterprise users that enables fast and accurate information retrieval of content from both internal and external sources. SinglePoint applies a robust taxonomy and multi-factor relevance ranking to integrated searches of internal and external databases. It also addresses a broad range of information and options to automatically adapt to the data type and user’s query style, and to provide Custom Search Folders that allow easy navigation of search results. divine SinglePoint Search is based on the NorthernLight technology. www.divine.com
Inktomi Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Quiver, Inc. The addition of Quiver’s portfolio of categorization and taxonomy software will further strengthen Inktomi’s enterprise information retrieval solutions. The total purchase price of this transaction will be approximately $12 million in a combination of common stock and cash. With the addition of Quiver, Inktomi can deliver information management solutions that provide both search capabilities and the ability to accurately arrange information into taxonomies. www.quiver.com, www.inktomi.com
Verity, Inc. announced a new version of its Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E) software. Verity K2E integrates search, taxonomy and personalization. Verity K2 Enterprise provides a classification solution that combines machine learning with domain expertise. Verity K2E gives users a multitude of ways to quickly find the information they need. The search tools include federated search, which brings back results from many sources to a single query, parametric search, which finds single or groups of documents with specific attributes, category drill-down to let users browse through categories and subcategories, and relational taxonomies, which enables simultaneous search of two or more taxonomies. www.verity.com
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