This post was written by Daniel Halloway
Recommind has launched a version of its enterprise search product designed to boost the relevancy of searches and find internal and external documents with a single query. MindServer Search 6.0 could help improve relevancy by offering the ability to screen results by history, author, length, or other specific factors found in the metadata. The new version also lets users prioritise ‘Best Bets’, or preselected files linked to particular queries, as well as files created by the user or those close to that user, so that these documents appear higher in the results list.
Exalead has launched a new version of its search and information application development platform designed specifically for independent software vendors (ISVs) and software-as-a-service providers. CloudView OEM Edition 5.0 has been designed with improved performance and reduced total cost of ownership in mind, and aims to speed time to market for software product teams by making it easier to embed into existing offerings. CloudView can scale to support over 500TB of data per server cluster, and more than 100 million documents on a single server.
Vivisimo Inc., a provider of enterprise search software and expertise, has launched the Velocity Discovery Module, an addition to the Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform that expands the ability of organizations to quickly and automatically classify all data by topics and themes. The new module also adds improved collaboration tools that speed the process of accessing, reviewing and sharing search results. Vivisimo noted that the launch of Velocity 6.0 in 2007 delivered a key advancement of adding essential social software tools to enterprise search.
Funnelback, a leading Internet & Enterprise Search engine company, has just released version 8 of its search engine technology. Key new features and enhancements include:
X1 Technologies Inc. has unveiled a new enterprise search suite for Symantec Enterprise Vault. X1 Search Suite for Symantec Enterprise Vault provides an intuitive graphical interface to find, preview and act upon documents, email and attachments regardless of location. Howard Silver, Vice President of Engineering, X1 Technologies said
Elmo Solutions announces the official launch of Agni Enterprise Search Portal 2009 for Microsoft SharePoint. This unique Knowledge Management solution for Microsoft SharePoint is a unique and affordable enterprise search solution designed to meet the distinct needs of CAD and Engineering users and senior managers. It is designed to enhance efficiency and productivity by dramatically reducing the time spent by knowledge workers looking for CAD and imaging documents through highly accurate search results. Agni Enterprise Search Portal 2009 is rich with features such as the ability to display document thumbnails on the results pages.
Natural Speech Communication Ltd. has announced the upcoming launch of MSE, its Media Search Engine for Enterprise Market applications. Accurate and fast multimedia search becomes significantly more important as Enterprises and employees are rapidly increasing their usage of media content such as watching video clips, conducting video conferences and webinars and creating presentations. The MSE product provides a first of its kind solution for effective search within corporate media, improving the search experience and directing users to the exact point in the media file which is relevant to their needs.
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.