Inxight Software, Inc. announced Inxight MetaText Server 2.0. Inxight MetaText Server provides a solution for integrating vast resources of unstructured data — email, text files, Web pages, news feeds — into mission-critical business processes. The new version includes a repository for storing metadata — key descriptors collected from a document to quickly and easily identify its meaning; a collection manager for easy scheduling of Web and file system crawls to continually update information stored in repositories; simple concept search integration with third-party search engines; and the addition of full-text search, including Boolean query support for Italian, Portuguese and Dutch. The product also supports English, French, German and Spanish. Inxight MetaText Server provides interfaces for integration with enterprise portals and customer relationship management, text mining, business intelligence, content, document and knowledge management applications. Inxight MetaText Server 2.0 is available immediately. www.inxight.com
Category: Enterprise search & search technology (Page 56 of 61)
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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Intelliseek announced the release of Enterprise Search Server (ESS), version 3.6 and an enhanced ESS Bridge for Lotus. The latest version of ESS is more flexible for users, supporting either Oracle or SQL Server as database managers and enabling the rapid integration of other informational, subscription-based Web sites, such as Lexis-Nexis. ESS is an information discovery platform that enables companies and to find, organize, distribute and make use of relevant information from multiple, disparate information sources. It provides single-point access to all the vital data that can affect decision making — information found on intranets, extranets, subscription sources, document management systems, specialty databases and the Internet. New features include Oracle database support for Windows, Agent Development Kit (ADK) enhancements, and Direct Lotus Domino Name & Address Book synchronization. The new version of ESS and the ESS Bridge for Lotus are available immediately. Pricing is based on a server, seats and services model. www.intelliseek.com
IBM Corporation and Inktomi Corp. announced an agreement to provide enterprise content delivery network (eCDN) technology. The solution is designed to enable enterprises to manage and distribute mission-critical business applications, such as ERP, CRM, content management, enterprise portal, and streaming media, including webcasting, e-learning, and corporate communications. Enterprises and service providers can use Inktomi technology running on IBM’s eServer xSeries systems to help overcome network congestion without adding bandwidth and router upgrades. IBM Global Services is now reselling Inktomi software products including Inktomi Enterprise Search and Inktomi content networking software. www.ibm.com/industries/digitalmedia, www.inktomi.com
Intelliseek has acquired the technology assets of Dallas-based Coreintellect, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Intelliseek will use the technology to enhance existing products and create new ones in the fields of consumer and competitive intelligence and enterprise search applications. Intelliseek acquired the entire Core360 platform technology including: CoreAnswer, a natural language-processing technology that provides answers to frequently asked questions; CoreFilter, an information-filtering system; CoreIndexer, a full-text indexing solution; and CoreSummarizer, a content-sensitive tool that creates intelligent, targeted summaries. www.intelliseek.com
Inxight Software, Inc. announced Inxight VizServer 1.5, an enterprise solution that offers customers a method for visualizing and exploring large information collections. The product simplifies and speeds access to relevant information. VizServer is for information-intensive applications in the areas of research and development, channel and customer management, government and law enforcement. Inxight VizServer provides both Inxight Star Tree and Inxight Table Lens. The new version offers XML connectivity to Inxight MetaText Server (IMS), an enterprise solution for structuring textual data for improved access and use. The integrated product offers Web wizards for connecting visualizations to databases, metadata repositories and document and content management systems. Inxight VizServer 1.5 is available immediately. www.inxight.com
Convera announced that it has integrated its RetrievalWare search and retrieval technology with Vignette V6 Content Suite. RetrievalWare can index, search, categorize and profile Vignette-managed content. In addition, developers of Vignette-based applications will now be able to integrate RetrievalWare into their applications. Users are able to perform more comprehensive searches that encompass not just Vignette-managed content, but a broader set of enterprise sources, including data warehouses, databases, groupware systems, e-mail files, presentations, videos and other multimedia files.
www.convera.com
Inktomi Corp. announced information retrieval technology for software developers and systems integrators that will provide advanced search functionality within enterprise applications. Built with native XML support, Inktomi Search Toolkit is an OEM solution for extracting relevant data from structured, unstructured and semi-structured content. This new OEM offering will deliver enhanced information retrieval within content-rich applications such as content management, enterprise portal, CRM and commerce solutions. Inktomi Search Toolkit provides the unstructured search functionality of a keyword search engine, such as relevance ranking, natural language search and filtering for various file formats. Additionally, it delivers XQuery-based structured query capabilities that allow sophisticated retrieval functions such as parametric searching and retrieval of content based on a document’s structure. Inktomi Search Toolkit returns results that include references to documents as well as the actual documents or fragments of those documents that contain the precise information requested. Inktomi Search Toolkit is available now. www.inktomi.com/products/toolkit
Stratify, Inc. announced an alliance and reseller agreement with Inktomi Corp. Inktomi and Stratify will offer joint customers a scalable, integrated categorized search solution ideal for large, information-intensive enterprises. Additionally, Inktomi will resell the Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search through its sales force. The Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search is a categorization solution optimized for Inktomi search technology that delivers direct navigation of sophisticated topic hierarchies. The combined Inktomi-Stratify solution enables enterprises to create a unified, searchable topic hierarchy that spans the organization. The Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search is available immediately. Inktomi Enterprise Search is sold separately. www.stratify.com
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