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RESOURCES FOR EVALUATING ENTERPRISE SEARCH TECHNOLOGIES
July 11, 2007

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New in the Demo Center -- Cognition Linguistic Search
Call for Papers - Enterprise Search Sourcebook 2008
IBM Combines Collaboration and Search
Elsevier Partners With FAST
Fifth generation knowledge sharing
Fios Upgrades Prevail Application
Nexidia Releases Language Assessor
ISYS Search Software Announces Search Integration with MOSS 2007
Basis Technology Announces Entity Extraction for Microsoft Live Search
Vivísimo Velocity Expands Support for Windows Search Technologies
eZanga Selects Pixsy Media Search Platform For Video Search
Knowledge from Tacilent
Yahoo! Acquires Rivals.com

New in the Demo Center -- Cognition Linguistic Search

Since the Enterprise Search Center launched about a year ago, we've added more than a dozen search engine demos--all free to registered users.  This week, we welcome Cognition Technologies to the demo space with a beta version of their new linguistic search engine, CognitionSearch. 

Here's how the company describes itself and the demo you are about to go see:

Cognition Technologies, Inc. is a search company that has created the next evolution in text search technology. Through its patented linguistic search architecture, known as CognitionSearchTM, the company is able to deliver significantly greater numbers of relevant search results than is possible with currently used search technologies.  Linguistic search technology employs a unique mix of linguistics and mathematical algorithms which has, in effect, "taught" the computer the meanings (or associated concepts) of nearly all the words and the frequent phrases within the common English language. Unlike all of the popular search engines in use today, which utilize mathematically-based pattern-matching technology (i.e., they search for a particular word pattern), CognitionSearch understands the meaning of words in context; in both the query and in the document base. Therefore, the results delivered to the user are more precise, relevant and complete. CognitionSearch is the only commercially available linguistic search engine on the market.

Click here to check out the demo.

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Call for Papers - Enterprise Search Sourcebook 2008

Enterprise Search Sourcebook 2008

Call for Submissions

Here’s your chance to share what you know with peers, colleagues, and the industry at large.

Information Today,Inc., the producer of Enterprise Search Summit—the first and leading event focused on deploying search technology within organizations—is looking for people with strong feelings, deep opinions, and exciting tales to tell about deploying search technology in the enterprise.

We’d like to publish your thoughts and observations in the 2008 edition of our Enterprise Search Sourcebook.

Our editors are looking for articles (of from 1200 to 2500 words) to include in the 2008 edition.  Articles can be on any topic related to the general subject of enterprise search.  See some suggestions, below.

So, if you have general observations to make about the state of enterprise search or its role in your organization, let us know of your interest by filling out our online submission form

The deadline for telling us you'd like to write an article for EnterpriseSearch Sourcebook is August 31.  

Dick Kaser
ITI, VP., Content



 

Enterprise Search -- Topics of Interest to our Editors

You should feel free to propose any topic that is related to the subject of enterprise search.  Here’s what we’ve selected to cover in related venues. 

Enterprise Search -- General Topics

  • Classification & Taxonomies
  • Content Management & Search Technology
  • Entity Extraction & Other Automatic Processes
  • Faceted Navigation & Search
  • Project & System Management
  • Results Display & Visualization
  • Search Analytics
  • Systems & Information Architecture
  • Tagging & Metadata
  • Tools for Discovery

Trends & Themes We Published About in 2007

  • Convergence of search and business intelligence
  • Mobile enterprise search
  • Adding social network analysis to search
  • The future of findability
  • Using analytics to improve search
  • Principles of effective search
  • Restoring browse to the enterprise
  • Search and information architecture
  • Search appliances in practice
  • Taxonomies, metadata and search
  • Desktop search
  • Case Studies:  Searching your enterprise

Issues Addressed at Our Conferences

  • Integrating search with dynamic content systems
  • Building an effective search interface
  • Deploying an enterprise-wide search platform
  • Search and business intelligence
  • E-discovery and compliance
  • Searching enterprise e-mail
  • Search for decision-making
  • Blending folksonomies and taxonomies
  • Desktop search in the enterprise
  • Tuning search engine metrics and log analyses
  • Mining data to improve the user experience
  • Search engines as a platform for applications development
  • Semantic search
  • Faceted search in the enterprise
  • Tends in enterprise search
  • Contextual search and text analytics
  • Designing search results pages
  • Integrating enterprise data with search results
  • Open source & search solutions

Don't be limited by the items on these lists.  Our editors are open to whatever you think is important to share with the 20,000 readers of Enterprise Search Sourcebook.


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IBM Combines Collaboration and Search

IBM has introduced enterprise search software designed to allow users to search intranet portals, databases, public Web sites, and file systems to obtain results highly-relevant to their individual needs. The new version of IBM’s OmniFind Enterprise Edition search software provides a dashboard for enterprise search, discovery, and analysis for IBM Lotus Domino environments. Also announced today are new security and search capabilities for WebSphere clients.

Using a single search interface to provide full-text indexing and search of Domino databases, users can find and access information stored in IBM Lotus Document Manager, IBM Lotus Quickr and in IBM Lotus QuickPlace documents, as well as other enterprise information from applications, repositories and shared files from across an organization. New Web 2.0 features in the OmniFind Enterprise Edition administrative console make it easy to customize the search application and preview changes immediately.

With extensive server-side support for Lotus Domino, the new software enhances search and sharing of business-critical information like collaborative documents, presentations, specifications and other files. IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition indexes all Lotus Domino fields including attachments, as well as fielded search. It also understands the structure of Lotus Notes databases and comes with pre-built support for Lotus Quickr, Lotus QuickPlace and Domino.Doc databases, Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Exchange as well as the ability to crawl IBM Workplace Web Content Management.

Additionally, the software provides scalable and secure enterprise search directly from within IBM WebSphere Portal. This provides WebSphere Portal clients the ability to scale to millions of documents and provides secure search of non-Web enterprise content sources. It also allows WebSphere Portal clients to conduct searches through the familiar WebSphere Search Center portlet or the OmniFind portlet directly through WebSphere Portal using native security.

(www.306.ibm.com/software/data/enterprise-search/omnifind-enterprise; www.ibm.com)

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Elsevier Partners With FAST

Elsevier has announced a partnership with Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) to create a new free online resource for the scientific community. Hosted on Scirus, Topic Pages will pull together a variety of relevant academic information on a particular scientific topic of interest to researchers on a single web page. The Topic Pages will utilize search capabilities from the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP). Topic Pages are designed for scientists to communicate. Each Topic Page will provide researchers with summaries of a specific topic written by an authority in the particular subject area, with direct links to relevant scholarly papers, abstracts and citations, supplemented with relevant websites, and other online resources from Scirus. In the initial phase, authors for Topic Pages are invited through an editorial process facilitated through Elsevier publishing staff. As more pages are developed, additional authoring options will be considered.

The functionality of the Topic Pages has been designed to allow scientists and researchers to alter the content and provide feedback, allowing each topic to be shaped by the suggestions made by the research community. Based on this community approach, Topic Pages might be expanded to include capabilities such as the ability for researchers to link to their bibliographies and comment on other researchers’ works. The Topic Pages is designed to serve as a place to find peers, communicate with other scientists, upload and rate relevant sources, and help shape and influence the tools and information provided on the Topic Pages themselves.

(www.scirus.com; www.fastsearch.com; www.info.scopus.com; www.elsevier.com; www.reedelsevier.com)

For More information, see: http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=36744

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Fifth generation knowledge sharing

Altus Learning Systems has introduced Version 5.0 of its Xtreme Knowledge Sharing platform (XKS 5.0). The company reports the new offering incorporates community enablement capabilities, such as enterprise collaboration, searchable video technology, blogs, wikis and other enterprise social networking functions.

Altus says the benefits of XKS 5.0 include:

  • capturing the best social networking features such as searchable video, podcasts, blogs, wikis and RSS feeds, bringing those capabilities inside the enterprise to facilitate collaboration, knowledge sharing and on-demand information management;
  • sophisticated video synching and search;
  • the creation of video learning portals to share the corporate knowledge captured from video training, meetings, conferences, PowerPoint presentations, etc.; and
  • features such as Custom Content Builder, Top 10 Presentations Repository, Community Ratings and Comments, and Architecture Tools, which allow employees to create their own personal home page in the knowledge portal.

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Fios Upgrades Prevail Application

Fios Inc., a provider in delivering electronic discovery and litigation readiness services, has unveiled enhancements to Prevail, the company’s web-based review application. The upgrades are targeted for public release in early Q3 2007.

Highlights of the most recent upgrades, include: Real-Time Duplicate Management, which provides reviewers more visibility to the number of duplicates in each results list and lets them apply categorizations to primaries and duplicates in a single process. With this automation, users can apply categories to all items in a duplicate group; bulk categorize to a list of items, including duplicates; categorize duplicate chains; and update item descriptions or custom properties of duplicates in real time; Intuitive Category Management, which features a more intuitive user interface with increased management controls, enabling reviewers to classify and track evidence throughout the discovery process; and greater Search Controls, where reviewers can set the maximum number of items a search should return, enabling them to control the number of documents reviewed at one time. In addition, Prevail offers the ability to change the default from "all documents" to "not reviewed" when filtering search results. Lastly, Prevail users can see a summary of the applied search criteria displayed from the results list.

(www.fiosinc.com)

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Nexidia Releases Language Assessor

Nexidia has announced the availability of Nexidia Language Assessor, designed for organizations to automate language assessment as part of CSR (Customer Service Representative) recruiting and ongoing training. Nexidia Language Assessor automates the language skills assessment process, with application of language standards. Nexidia Language Assessor has been designed to compare candidates’ recorded reading of a script to the phonetic standard of that language, measuring the quality of pronunciation and fluency. Call centers will also be able to use the technology for ongoing training to assist CSRs’ language skills by showing exact areas where improvement is needed. Nexidia Language Assessor is available in all 33 languages supported by Nexidia.

(www.nexidia.com)

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ISYS Search Software Announces Search Integration with MOSS 2007

ISYS Search Software, a global supplier of enterprise search solutions for business and government, has announced integration of ISYS:web 8 into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). ISYS:web 8’s SharePoint integration capabilities are designed to enable users to take advantage of the advanced search features offered by ISYS. Administrators can create an environment in which users can instantly find information via ISYS’ search capabilities and subsequently act on it by using SharePoint’s document management and collaboration tools. In addition, ISYS’ integration within SharePoint maintains the full functionality of both products and is designed to enable users to simultaneously search across multiple sources of content, from MOSS to network drives, websites, and more.

(www.isys-search.com; www.microsoft.com)

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Basis Technology Announces Entity Extraction for Microsoft Live Search

Basis Technology has announced that Microsoft has licensed its Rosette Entity Extractor (REX) to enhance the user experience on Microsoft Live Search by adding news results to specific user queries. REX is designed to help organizations use information locked in unstructured data that cannot be found through simple keyword matching. Advanced statistical algorithms are designed to enable discovery of entities like names, places, dates, and other phrases that establish the real meaning in text. Live Search processes web documents through REX to create a list of "names in the news." When user’s queries match this list, Live Search knows it could be related to the news and adds news to the results display.

(www.basistech.com)  

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Vivísimo Velocity Expands Support for Windows Search Technologies

Vivísimo, a provider of search software and expertise, has announced the expansion of its Velocity platform with support for Windows Search technologies, including the integrated desktop search capabilities in Windows Vista and Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows XP. Users on the Vivísimo Velocity enterprise search platform can access and manipulate search results across Windows desktop environments as well as multiple applications and databases. By extending the underlying Windows Search platform, customers can see aggregated search results from the desktop alongside those results from other enterprise applications and data sources searched by Velocity. Through Velocity, search results are displayed in neatly organized topical categories, or clusters, for enhanced navigation. Windows Desktop Search is managed and deployed at the administrative level, designed to allow for a secure and configurable solution. Windows Desktop Search indexes more than 200 file types including .doc, .xml, .pdf, .xls, and .ppt in multiple languages.

(www.vivisimo.com)  

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eZanga Selects Pixsy Media Search Platform For Video Search

Pixsy Corporation, a media search platform that powers private label image and video search engines, has announced a partnership with eZanga, a site for people seeking answers on the web. eZanga.com was founded in 2003 to help people find information on the web. Under the agreement, eZanga will use Pixsy’s video and image search, as well as category search technology to deliver news, sports, entertainment, celebrities, travel, and more to eZanga customers.

(www.ezanga.com; www.pixsy.com)

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Knowledge from Tacilent

The Knowledge Workers Marketplace operates with Tacilent's knowledge management and analytics kernel (eKM), which is said to help companies and their personnel transform information into reusable knowledge solutions. These reusable offerings are distributed via a secure Web portal, allowing users to work together in a single collaborative environment and maintain their information and business process intelligence in a central, fully searchable repository.

Access to the Web-enabled application is granted based on a user’s role within an organization, allowing for several permission levels within a project or program initiative, says Tacilent. This role-based access provides multiple levels of security and lets project members respond to and perform evaluations online at their convenience, the company says, which further claims all responses and evaluations are consolidated and reconciled automatically, providing the real-time reporting necessary to perform complex analytics.

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Yahoo! Acquires Rivals.com

Yahoo! Inc., an internet company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rivals.com, an online destination for college and high school sports and recruiting information. The acquisition will expand the editorial and community offerings of Yahoo! Sports. The terms aren’t being released but the amount is close to $100 million.

(www.yahoo.com; www.rivals.com)  

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