According to IDC, the content management and retrieval software market continues to grow rapidly despite the slowdown in 2001, and content management and retrieval software spending is expected to outpace the software market as a whole for the next five years. This growth has attracted the attention of large software vendors who are increasing their attention to this market. IDC’s forecast predicts, that in 2003, pent-up demand for the next generation of content technologies, such as multimedia and multiformat search and text mining will fuel increased spending. According to IDC, this growth will only be temporary, followed by a shakeout ending with a few large players dominating the marketplace with unified enterprise information system offerings. The products that are easily integrated with other enterprise applications will have the greatest potential for success.
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Category: Enterprise search & search technology (Page 57 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.
Before we consolidated our blogs, industry veteran Lynda Moulton authored our popular enterprise search blog. This category includes all her posts and other enterprise search news and analysis. Lynda’s loyal readers can find all of Lynda’s posts collected here.
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Obtree Technologies has announced its expansion into the United States market with the opening of its Aliso Viejo, Calif. offices and the launch of its Obtree C4 architecture and Obtree Portal Suite solutions. The company plans to work with OEM partners to market its Obtree C4 architecture and Obtree Portal Suite, combined with other enterprise technology products to medium and large enterprise organizations in the financial services, pharmaceutical, and government markets. The offerings enable IT directors and Webmasters to integrate all enterprise content and knowledge management-related applications into one system that delivers needed information in real-time. Companies can use Obtree C4 and Obtree Portal Suite to manage, edit, and access legacy customer data, dynamic Web page content, market research reports, Excel spreadsheets, marketing presentations, and customized applications – all from one browser-based system. www.obtree.com
Mondosoft announced enhancements to its site search and reporting solution, MondoSearch, to provide corporate customers with efficient and economical search and reporting across their intranets, extranets, and Web sites. With full support for Unicode, MondoSearch 4.4 provides search for 37 languages Worldwide including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai, and offers user authentication functionality for secure content delivery based on user privileges. MondoSearch 4.4 has also been optimized for use with content management solutions. Especially designed to support Microsoft Corp’s Content Management Server, the user authentication technology provides the ability for different end users to receive information based on their specific privileges and access levels. Title, department, geographic location, and customer or partner status could determine such user levels. MondoSearch’s search solution is certified for Microsoft’s Commerce Server and tested and integrated with Microsoft’s Content Management server and Solutions for Internet Business product lines. www.mondosoft.com
ClearForest announced ClearTags 4.0, a comprehensive auto-tagging platform. The new version, which includes semantic, statistical and structural tagging, expands tagging output and the understanding and value of unstructured content. A new user control panel allows the definition of different tagging schemes for any type of document stream, monitoring the entire tagging process. ClearTags allows publishers, content providers and other content-intensive businesses, to precisely identify and automatically tag multiple relevant entities, facts and events buried within large textual repositories. The process produces richly-tagged XML files. The output of ClearTags can be used to create new products and re-package content for various downstream applications and delivery methods, or for further analysis. ClearTags accepts input in a variety of formats, including PDF, MS Office, HTML, and XML, and automatically enriches each document with an extensive set of relevant meta-tags. The tags are based on three main technologies: Semantic/Linguistic Information Extraction, Statistical Categorization, and Topological Analysis. ClearTags is also used to generate a ClearForest knowledge base, to be used with ClearResearch, ClearForest’s enterprise research application, or third-party Web applications. www.clearforest.com
Convera announced that IBM is offering Convera’s RetrievalWare as the search and retrieval technology for its Network Interactive Content Access (NICA) publishing industry solution. NICA is an end-to-end digital asset management pre-press solution that provides newspaper and magazine publishers the ability to manage, archive, retrieve and reuse publishing data such as text, images, graphics and PDFs while offering integration with their production workflows, editorial creation front-end systems and industry specific business practices. NICA also provides the workflow management that allows the repurposing of publishing content either from its own repository or from an external enterprise content management repository. Convera also announced that it is creating an extension to the IBM WebSphere Portal that will enable IBM customers to integrate RetrievalWare into their portal deployments.
This implementation gives IBM portal customers the capability to retrieve all data types (text, video, images, audio) through the IBM portal interface. www.convera.com
Liquent Inc. announced a marketing alliance with Ipedo, Inc. The combined solution resulting from this partnership will leverage Liquent’s XtentT technology and Ipedo’s XML Database to provide infrastructure that can be used to transform, manage and deliver XML content to content management, portal, Web, wireless and other enterprise applications. Companies utilizing this solution will be able to automatically retrieve both structured and unstructured content from their existing data and content repositories, and use Liquent’s Xtent engine to transform the content into XML that is managed by the Ipedo XML Database. This XML can then be used to meet ongoing requirements to transform, search and assemble critical information for employees, customers, partners and electronic systems. www.ipedo.com
iManage, Inc. announced availability of iManage WorkKnowledge, a new knowledge management application that provides the ability to search disparate repositories to identify knowledge locked in business content such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations and email attachments. iManage WorkSite is an Internet-based enterprise application suite that enables organizations to securely manage and collaborate on critical business content and processes with employees, customers and partners. iManage WorkKnowledge creates a single unified environment for users to capture, store, reuse, and leverage a company’s organizational knowledge. Users can classify content by building on a taxonomy of knowledge categories provided by iManage, publicizing newly defined categories easily throughout the enterprise. By subscribing to the iManage service, “What’s New” updates, users can automatically receive alerts as new relevant knowledge enters the system. Autonomy powers sophisticated, unified concept searches across iManage repositories and other internal and external information sources. www.imanage.com
Inktomi Corp. announced enhancements to Inktomi Enterprise Search software as well as an end-to-end solution for optimizing and searching corporate content. Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 includes an interface for indexing metadata created in content management and classification applications, the ability to insert direct links to popular documents in search results and expanded support for database content. Additionally, the company introduced Inktomi Search Architect Edition, a solution that combines Inktomi Enterprise Search with content optimization tools to automate the process of developing easy-to-search content. Inktomi Search Architect Edition combines Watchfire Enterprise Solution with Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 for automating the practice of preparing content for search engine indexing. Inktomi Search Architect Edition automatically scans and analyzes enterprise content for problems that can impact its ability to be searched and quickly and accurately adds keyword metadata (such as page titles, alt tags, author tags and description tags) to improve the accessibility and ranking of that content. Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 and Inktomi Search Architect Edition are available immediately. www.inktomi.com/products/search
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