This post was written by Daniel Halloway
Tribold has announced the launch of TRIBOLD 3.0™, the latest version of its leading Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software solution. As the only third generation EPM software solution available for the Communications Service Providers (CSPs), TRIBOLD 3.0 is uniquely positioned to meet the demands of today’s hugely competitive communications industry environment, placing product firmly at the heart of CSPs’ businesses. The release of TRIBOLD 3.0 comes at a time that leading industry figures are actively endorsing the adoption of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) by CSPs.
AIM Software, a leading provider of enterprise data management solutions, has announced the new release of its flagship data management product GAIN. The GAIN platform offers extended facilities for golden copy management and new support for Windows Server 2008 / Windows Vista. The modular and scalable reference data management platform GAIN enables clients to process data of a multitude of the world’s leading end-of-day and real-time data feeds. The main challenge in reference data management lies in the reduction of manual exception handling by automatic data scrubbing rules. The newest release GAIN 4.1 offers extensions to the golden copy platform, providing advanced data consolidation functionalities along with improved usability and an enhanced user interface.
SirsiDynix has announced SirsiDynix Enterprise, a new faceted search product that is designed to provide the foundation for a range of user experience solutions. SirsiDynix Enterprise will feature fuzzy search technology, efficient search index updating, intuitive user interfaces, faceted finding aids, multilanguage support, consortia support, deep integration with SirsiDynix integrated library systems, and next-generation OPAC functionality. SirsiDynix Enterprise will be available to users of SirsiDynix OPACs, including SirsiDynix Symphony e-Library, Horizon Information Portal, iBistro, iLink, Ecole, and Web2, in 3Q 2008.
ISYS® Search Software has released its next-generation enterprise search solution for intranets, websites, Microsoft SharePoint and custom web applications, the ISYS:web 9. Coming with a number of enhancements, the new product is designed to get more accurate search results in lesser time. The ability for content mining have also been expanded to make the content more comprehensible. Using its Intelligent Content Analysis, ISYS notes the key features about content collection, such as metadata patterns and entities. Thereby, it leverages these facets in the interface to deliver a better search.
French search company Exalead has updated its enterprise search product to simplify for the search of unstructured information for workers the servers of their company. The new brand, CloudView makes the search easier for enterprise users by making them more accessible to the cloud of data. It can be on their system, on the company’s server or on the Internet. Incorporation of this external data into the searches is what the offering is all about.
The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) includes the latest performance updates and fixes for the Microsoft Office Servers. The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) includes several new Enterprise Search features for SharePoint Server 2007 and the latest performance updates and fixes for the Microsoft Office Servers listed in the system requirements section below.
Spurred by moves from its biggest rival, Microsoft Corp., and by a burst of offerings from a clutch of innovative startups, Google is tossing more resources at burgeoning enterprise search tools. While in some cases the company is applying techniques and technologies from its consumer Web searches, in others it is bringing new products and new marketing methods to win over business customers. According to Nitin Mangtani, lead product manager for Google’s enterprise search group, enterprise search is moving beyond being just an afterthought to becoming a competitive advantage and a way for businesses to attract and retain customers.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is getting a shot in the arm with an upgrade that will see it gain new enterprise search features, as well as better performance. The update to MOSS 2007 comes as part of a wider rollout of usability and performance improvements to a number of Office products. MOSS upgraded version will have enterprise search features that initially shipped in the Search Server 2008 series — including federated search capability, a move that marks continued efforts by Microsoft to capitalize on the growing market for enterprise search.
Google Inc. has released a new version of its search appliance for businesses with enhanced end-user features such as personalized alerts and results ranking. The GB-7007 hardware-and-software bundle integrates storage hardware from Dell Inc. and features a self-contained search system for managing an organization’s internal electronic files. GB-7007 can index up to 10 million documents, as compared to 2 million documents that the product’s predecessor, GB-1001, could index. The new version is available in five-box and 12-box rack versions.