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
Category: Semantic technologies (Page 54 of 72)
Our coverage of semantic technologies goes back to the early 90s when search engines focused on searching structured data in databases were looking to provide support for searching unstructured or semi-structured data. This early Gilbane Report, Document Query Languages – Why is it so Hard to Ask a Simple Question?, analyses the challenge back then.
Semantic technology is a broad topic that includes all natural language processing, as well as the semantic web, linked data processing, and knowledge graphs.
Documentum announced the introduction of an ECM Solution for Life Sciences. This new offering is designed to meet the specialized content management requirements of biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device companies; clinical research and contract manufacturing organizations (CRO/CMO); and governing bodies that regulate these industries. The new solution is a combination of Documentum and partner products, best practices, shared standards, project templates, and consulting services. Based on Documentum’s core ECM technology, the solution enables lifecycle control of all documents, such as new drug applications (NDAs); auditing of content creation, revision and approvals to ensure regulatory compliance; sharing and reuse of project-related content for team collaboration in product development and clinical trials. The solution also supports cross-organizational collaboration. The Documentum ECM for Life Sciences automates and streamlines: R&D Content Management, Operations Content Management, and Marketing Content Management. Documentum will provide consulting services, guidance on industry best practices and industry-specific project templates and accelerators. The Documentum Life Sciences Solution is available immediately. www.documentum.com/industry/life_sciences.htm
iPhrase Technologies, Inc. and eFORCE announced an agreement to jointly market their combined solution. iPhrase will leverage eFORCE’s to further expand its reach into several vertical markets in which iPhrase is already established: financial services, retail, the service provider industry and technology and manufacturing. eFORCE’s has a standardized approach for delivering enterprise content management, customer relationship management, corporate portals, supply chain, enterprise application integration and business intelligence within a set timeframe and price. Each of these areas represents solution opportunities for iPhrase’s self-service search capabilities, particularly in the areas of enterprise content management and corporate portals. eFORCE will also work jointly with iPhrase to bring BEA Portal related offerings to market. www.iphrase.com, www.eforceglobal.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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