Excalibur Technologies announced a technology licensing agreement with DataChannel, Inc. The agreement gives DataChannel rights to integrate Excalibur RetrievalWare, an intelligent, Web-based, search application into DataChannel Server 4.0 (DCS 4.0). By incorporating Excalibur RetrievalWare’s search functionality, DataChannel’s XML-based portal server delivers enhanced capabilities for retrieving and categorizing all enterprise data resources for employees, customers, partners and stakeholders through a customized, personal, and secure e-business interface that delivers dynamic applications. www.datachannel.com, www.excalib.com
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Intraspect Software, Inc., announced the immediate availability of the Intraspect Knowledge Spider for Lotus Notes, an enterprise collaboration tool that provides seamless access to information held in Lotus Notes databases. The Intraspect Knowledge Spider gives companies the ability to search across multiple Lotus Notes databases, find documents, and use the information held within those documents in a collaborative fashion. Lotus Notes users have always been able to search Notes databases, but now non-Notes users can link informa
BroadVision, Inc. and Verity, Inc. announced they have broadened their OEM alliance in the e-commerce arena. Under the amended terms of the agreement, BroadVision is licensed to resell the Verity K2 Search Server, a high-performance, high-availability search system, to BroadVision customers seeking knowledge retrieval capabilities including scalability and advanced search. Verity’s core search features have been incorporated in BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise since 1997, and the amended agreement allows BroadVision to sell Verity’s latest, most scalable and most advanced system. www.broadvision.com, www.verity.com
Hummingbird Communications launched the Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit, a toolset that provides enterprises with the ability to construct compelling knowledge portals. The Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit is a complete solution designed so that it can also easily plug into Hummingbird’s Enterprise Information Portal (EIP), scheduled for beta release next month. Priced as one bundle, the Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit consists of DOCSFulcrum 3.0, Hummingbird’s Web-accessible enterprise knowledge management offering; Fulcrum SearchServer 4.0, the latest version of the company’s information retrieval software; and the new Knowledge Manager Workstation 1.0 (KMW), which uses neural network technology to automatically create a business taxonomy. KMW adds the power of document mining to the DOCSFulcrum product family, making it easier to offer users a portal into the unstructured information stored in corporate repositories. The Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit will be released on November 26, 1999. www.hummingbird.com
WholeWeb.net announced a technology licensing, integration, and distribution agreement with Excalibur Technologies Corporation. Under the agreement, WholeWeb.net obtains the rights to integrate Excalibur RetrievalWare, and the Excalibur Multimedia Spider into its next generation search application. WholeWeb.net brings a very large database (VLDB) technology to the Web to improve coverage, relevancy, and end user expectations at a reduced cost. Excalibur RetrievalWare, an intranet search system typically used in large knowledge-focused enterprise implementations, emphasizes accuracy and scalability and excels in managing multiple data types in geographically-dispersed environments. The combination of the two technologies enables WholeWeb.net to search five billion records per second. By viewing the Web as a large, unstructured information problem, and by applying extremely fast and powerful relational database technology, WholeWeb.net covers the whole Web now, maintains its breadth of coverage as the Web grows, and places powerful interactive, graphical information mining tools in the hands of end users. This underlying core technology has been used commercially for over 10 years in mission-critical applications such as telephone billing and credit card processing. www.wholeweb.net
Verity, Inc. announced the promotion of Anthony J. Bettencourt III to president and his election to its Board of Directors. Bettencourt joined Verity two years ago, and has served as Verity’s senior vice president, worldwide sales and product marketing for the past eighteen months. With nineteen years of high-tech sales and marketing experience, Bettencourt will now be responsible for all of Verity’s sales, marketing, professional services and product development activities. Bettencourt will continue to report directly to Gary J. Sbona, Verity’s chairman and CEO. Verity also announced the promotion of Joseph J. Lawless to the position of vice president, North America and Rest of World Sales. Lawless joined Verity in July 1996, and most recently served as vice president, Eastern Sales Region. www.verity.com
EasyAsk Inc. (formerly Linguistic Technology Corporation) has been formed to provide Internet and Intranet search engine software for relational databases. EasyAsk Inc. will provide a family of natural language question/answer portal solutions specifically designed to address the idiosyncrasies of indexing, searching and generating the SQL required to access databases efficiently. New products, under the brand name EasyAsk, are being rolled out for a number of specific markets including electronic retailing, data warehousing and enterprise information portals that integrate the search process for text and database sources within a corporation, and ultimately the public portal market. www.easyask.com
Excalibur Technologies announced the Excalibur RetrievalWare Power Search Plug-in’ for Lotus Notes that will deliver advanced search and retrieval functionality to Lotus Notes Domino. The product was announced in conjunction with the release of Excalibur RetrievalWare 6.7, the latest version of the company’s enterprise knowledge retrieval solution Lotus Notes/Domino customers may now elect to choose the new RetrievalWare Power Search Plug-in which enables faster indexing and better performance for simultaneous indexing and retrieval from distributed Lotus Notes servers. It provides plug-in access to Excalibur’s knowledge retrieval system, enabling advanced concept-based, natural language searching on more than 200 standard and proprietary document formats including Microsoft Office and other groupware and document repositories that frequently co-exist in Lotus Notes environments, all from a single query. www.excalib.com
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