Inktomi Corp. and BroadVision, Inc. announced a strategic alliance to improve access to highly customized information across enterprise networks. Under terms of the alliance, the companies have integrated Inktomi Enterprise Search Software and BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise, providing enhanced retrieval of content, including personalized and actionable information, through one search query. BroadVision plans to offer a standard solution for enterprises to integrate Inktomi’s search technology with BroadVision’s personalization technology. www.broadvision.com, .
Category: Enterprise search & search technology (Page 58 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.
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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Atomz Enterprise Search offers new capabilities that deliver control over search results including a fully integrated content mining engine and metadata management center to deliver highly efficient and precise search results. Atomz Content Mining Engine feature delivers targeted, granular search results to users seeking specific information in very large collections of data. For example, an online book retailer using Enterprise Search can deliver fine-tuned results for cross-referenced searches by “author,” “publisher,” or “ISBN number.” Atomz Content Mining Engine also provides customers a comprehensive way to classify, categorize, and relate their data into specific taxonomies to allow site visitors the most flexible and granular level of querying available. With Atomz’ exclusive Target Meta Tag, customers can ‘tag’ (using the Meta data Management interface) pages with specific target keywords whereby the associated page would always be the top search result. Within the Atomz Member Center, customers can also utilize Atomz Enterprise Search’s extensive relevancy controls. www.atomz.com
Semio Corporation announced that it will integrate Semio Tagger, its core categorization and indexing engine, with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. Information categorized and indexed by Semio can be viewed through Microsoft’s digital dashboard or through the Semio Taxonomy Viewer — which automatically names and groups concepts that share similar qualities into hierarchical categories for more navigable, browseable presentation. SharePoint Portal Server allows companies to easily find, share and publish information. Each stand-alone server offers enterprise-level search functionality (developed by Microsoft Research), integrated document management tools and flexible, easily customizable enterprise portal capabilities. SharePoint Portal Server provides a focal point for finding relevant information stored across multiple data sources, including SharePoint Team Services websites, Exchange data stores, file shares, Notes databases and Internet sites. Tagger supports a wide range of content sources, including most commercial file formats, PDF, HTML/XML sources, Lotus Notes databases, Documentum document vaults, and unstructured text in relational databases. It supports English, French, Spanish and Italian language sources, with more languages available shortly. Pre-packaged industry templates for fast-start categorization are available for the chemical, medical, legal, military, and computing industries. Semio Tagger availability for the SharePoint Portal Server platform is targeted for Q4, 2001. www.semio.com
Antarcti.ca Systems Inc. (ASI) announced the availability of Visual Net Enterprise (VNE). Visual Net Enterprise gives users an intuitive, efficient, and graphical “search and discovery” tool to organize, browse, and view large amounts of data in multiple databases and media formats. Visual Net Enterprise transforms enterprise information into large-scale data maps, and provides a navigation interface featuring context-rich visuals. VNE uses Antarcti.ca’s visual mapping technology to show relevant and related data as defined by the customer. Visual mapping of data enables users to go from merely searching for information to strategizing and organizing data. Users browse through categories of data laid out on a map to quickly understand the types of data available to them. At the same time, they get information about the most relevant data in a visual representation. This enables users to quickly see all pertinent data and determine what information best serves their needs. Visual Net offers: Navigation across multiple data sources in a variety of formats; Internationalized language capability; A customizable data display; Scalability; and Easy updating. Visual Net takes all category/object attributes, and supplements this data with metadata collected by ASI’s robot module. Based on all these attributes, the backend subsystem gives each category/object pairing a graphic representation and a unique X and Z location on a two-dimensional map. Visual Net can be utilized in a wide range of applications such as research libraries, corporate Intranets, eCommerce and retail cataloging. Visual Net is offered as a standalone application or as part of custom applications provided directly or through ASI’s partner channel. Visual Net Enterprise and Visual Net for Libraries, launched April 2001, are available immediately. Pricing varies based on application. www.antarcti.ca
ALPNET, Inc. announced the release of GLOBELIX, a fully integrated translation database system. A client-server application for enterprise-wide globalization and localization management, GLOBELIX allows companies to get their products faster to worldwide markets by significantly reducing the time it takes to translate product information. GLOBELIX connects an unlimited number of translators and users in a globally networked environment, offering significant advantages over first-generation translation memory and productivity tools, which provide isolated functionality on a workstation level. GLOBELIX also allows linking of language resource data in an unlimited number of languages and allows searches of language combinations in all directions. The technology can be integrated into most enterprise applications, like content management, ERP systems, and corporate Intranets. GLOBELIX allows translators, authors and information users to connect to a central database and share localized content over the Internet and VPNs. GLOBELIX uses Oracle’s 8i engine as the translation database backbone. It provides the functions of alignment of text and management of language resource data on various component levels. A complete Unicode-based model, GLOBELIX is SGML/XML-optimized and compatible with most other business document formats. It can easily be integrated within corporate workflow systems, content management and authoring systems, and other enterprise application systems. The GLOBELIX Editor is a thin Java-based ‘client’ software program that allows translators to utilize all the power of the GLOBELIX technology on their remote workstation without having to load and maintain the hefty functionality on their local PC. www.alpnet.com
IXOS SOFTWARE AG, announced a new release of its IXOS-DocuLink solution. IXOS-DocuLink organizes documents in structured folders and provides users with uniform access to both SAP data and non-R/3-related documents. The new release, IXOS-DocuLink 3.0, is integrated with mySAP.com Workplace. IXOS-DocuLink 3.0 fully supports the functionality of the new enjoySAP and mySAP.com Workplace user interfaces, and provides users with an intuitive and user-friendly environment. IXOS-DocuLink complements the process-oriented mySAP.com search and navigation functions with its document-oriented view. Companies today need quick and easy access to specific documents that are linked to business processes – such as inquiries, offers, orders and delivery notes. IXOS-DocuLink enables such results with its document-based approach so often required to access company-internal information. With IXOS-DocuLink, group-specific document views, such as customer files, can be easily configured and customized without additional programming. DocuLink does not require R/3-specific knowledge to access information. Users with little or no SAP knowledge can easily access and use all of the enterprise-wide information and/or documents. With IXOS-DocuLink, employees can link web-based mySAP.com Workplace R/3 data to non-SAP-related data to integrate them in a uniform view. In addition IXOS-DocuLink supports mySAP.com Workplace functionalities such as “drag and relate.” So, with IXOS-DocuLink, users can simply “drag and relate” to link an R/3 customer number to a process — and then quickly view all the documents for that specific customer number. IXOS-DocuLink 3.0 is immediately available to customers worldwide. IXOS-DocuLink 2.0 customers will receive a free upgrade to the new IXOS-DocuLink 3.0 version. www.ixos.de
Inxight Software, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Inxight Categorizer. Categorizer is an application that efficiently and automatically classifies unstructured information, such as web pages, e-mail, word processing documents, presentations and text, into pre-defined categories to significantly increase the quality and accuracy of online searches. Using patented technology, Categorizer takes classification beyond simple methods such as rule-based systems and pure pattern recognition techniques. Categorizer advances its technology by combining linguistic processing engines with patented mathematic algorithms. For example, the word “ground” can mean ground pepper, the ground that you stand on, or the ground for a wire. Categorizer is able to distinguish between the meanings of the three “grounds” in its context. Another example is the word “teach.” Categorizer identifies and associates words that have the same meaning, depending on how the word is used, like teaches, teaching, and taught. Demonstrating contextual understanding of word “meanings” and relationships of words in sentences directly benefits the accuracy and speed of the categorization process. Moreover, Categorizer maintains its scalability even as the number of categories or documents grows. (For a detailed white paper on Categorizer, go to www.inxight.com/categorizer.pdf). Features of Categorizer include: Scalability to 100,000 documents per day with a single server; Supports over 70 major document formats including HTML, word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail files, Lotus Notes and plain text; True linguistic support for Western European languages; Out-of-the-box advanced natural language engine categorizes documents based on keywords, concepts and full language analysis; Accuracy improves automatically using an active category learning process; Built-in intelligence adapts to dynamic taxonomies; Supports Oracle data store for high-availability environments; and XML compatibility enables integration to most enterprise portal applications. Inxight Categorizer is available immediately through Inxight corporate sales. www.inxight.com
Hummingbird Ltd. announced the release of the latest version of its DOCS Open document management solution. This latest version delivers significantly enhanced functionality, augmenting an enterprise architecture and product family from Hummingbird that is designed to enable organizations to customize their document management environment. A highlight of the new release is the full integration of SearchServer, the leading full text indexing and retrieval engine from Hummingbird. DOCS Open Release 3.9 includes new application integration offerings, enhanced desktop functionality, and updated documentation and online help. DOCS Open 3.9 is available immediately. www.hummingbird.com
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