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May 14, 2008

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Featured Content: Best Practices in Enterprise Search
New Connectors Added for Thunderstone Search Appliances
Truviso Contributes PostgreSQL Enhancements
Ancient Hebrew collections preserved
Dow Jones acquires Generate
Intelligent social networking
A hub for travel & tourism information
LTU Technologies Releases LTU-Finder 3.0
Improving the Web experience
Strengthening open source search

Featured Content: Best Practices in Enterprise Search

KMWorld has released its fourth annual series of white papers on best practices in Enterprise Search.  Download the complete PDF.    Read the articles online.  

Enterprise Search, Vol IV [May 2008]
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New Connectors Added for Thunderstone Search Appliances

Thunderstone Software LLC, has announced the availability of new Thunderstone Search Appliance Connectors. Developed in partnership with Persistent Systems. the Connectors are designed to help Thunderstone's Search Appliance customers create search-based applications across a broad array of enterprise content.

Connectors are now available for the following repositories: Microsoft SharePoint 2003, 2007; EMC Documentum Content Server; EMC Documentum eRoom; IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 5.x, 6.x, 7.x; IBM Websphere Portal 6.0 WCM; IBM Websphere Portal 6.0 DM; BEA Weblogic Portal 10.0; Hummingbird Document Manager 5.1; SAP KM Portal; and Interwoven WorkSite.

(www.thunderstone.com, www.persistentsys.com)
 

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Truviso Contributes PostgreSQL Enhancements

Truviso, a provider of next-generation business intelligence solutions, announced that it has completed an enhancement to the PostgreSQL open source database system that extends its suitability for streaming data analysis. Truviso also announced it will contribute this enhancement to the PostgreSQL community, reinforcing the company's goal of building upon and sharing mutually beneficial improvements to open source code with the PostgreSQL community. Truviso's solution leverages PostgreSQL technology to provide high-performance, ultra-low-latency continuous data analysis. The new feature enhances PostgreSQL's performance for long-running queries and transactions. Truviso-sponsored improvements are expected to be included in the next release of PostgreSQL, scheduled for early 2009.

(www.truviso.com)
 

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Ancient Hebrew collections preserved

The non-profit Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books is using search technology from dtSearch and a multilingual optical character recognition (OCR) solution from Ligature to make two ancient collections of books available on its Web site.

One collection consists of more than 1,000 rare Passover Haggadahs from around the world, some of which date back to the Middle Ages. The collection was loaned to the Society, which in turn scanned and OCR'd it to preserve the content as PDF images.

According to a recent press release from dtSearch, visitors can search the collection in the original Hebrew using its technology. A Hebrew virtual keyboard control on the site enables visitors with any language keyboard to instantly type in Hebrew search teams. After a search, the technology jumps right to the relevant page of the collection, displaying the original page image along with search term highlights on the PDF image for easy browsing.

The second collection includes 400 original works relating to 12th century scholar and physician Maimonides, also known in Hebrew as Rambam. Both collections join the Friedberg-Ryzman collection of more than 15,000 existing books that have been preserved by the Society and are freely available and fully searchable at its site. The Society has scanned those thousands of rare and out-of-print works over the past nine years—concerned that the originals could be lost, destroyed or disintegrate over time.

Chaim Rosenberg, founder of the Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books, says, "We are very pleased to announce the addition of the Haggadahs from the Chabad - Lubavitch Library ... We are also very pleased to add the Maimonides/Rambam scholarly collection. Rambam is one of the pre-eminent, and certainly most prolific, Jewish scholars of all time. This collection of his works is unique to the Society, and we are proud to make it available for worldwide scholarly access."

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Dow Jones acquires Generate

Dow Jones & Company has acquired Generate, which says its software combines business-sensitive company and executive intelligence with relationship-mapping technology and trigger-event identification.

Generate adds that its extraction and aggregation solutions harvest company and executive data from the Web and maps the relationships among the people and organizations it finds. It spiders more than 75 million domains extracting comprehensive information from more than 4 million companies and 6.4 million executives. The software further mines, in real time, more than 100 "trigger events" of interest to business and financial professionals, such as mergers and acquisitions, senior executive and board changes, venture financing, etc. This information is integrated with relationship-mapping technology and is said to allow clients to detect competitive moves, identify prospects, optimize corporate/personal networks and connect to executives through their best and most appropriate relationship path, says Generate.

The content and technology provided by Generate will be deployed across the entire product range of the Dow Jones Media Group.

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Intelligent social networking

Trampoline Systems has released Sonar Dashboard, which the company likens to a "Facebook for the enterprise."

Sonar Dashboard is designed to increase cohesion, collaboration and innovation in large organizations, says Trampoline. Interactive network visualizations and expertise search enable users to find and connect with the people they need at work and see the social networks and information flows operating across the enterprise ecosystem.

Further, says Trampoline, it provides employees with individual profiles, a news feed of network activity and a contacts list. Additionally, the company reports, Sonar Dashboard is automatically updated through integration with employees’ everyday work, such as e-mail, via Trampoline’s Sonar Server, which analyzes the social networks, information flows and expertise located within corporate information.

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A hub for travel & tourism information

TourismROI, a source of information for travel and tourism management and investment opportunities, has chosen a Web content management solution to build a scalable site for information exchange.

The company has selected Ektron CMS400.NET to manage the site. TourismROI had sought a system that could feed massive amounts of data--including documents, images, PDFs, videos, hyperlinks and more--into a scalable, user-friendly format.

"By leveraging this solution, we have been able to easily integrate essential features such as wikis, blogs, message forums and work areas into the TourismROI Web site, all of which are extremely important to the global business model of the site," says Rick Gadd, senior developer, MMG Worldwide, which was responsible for development of the site. "Ektron also made it possible to create an advanced taxonomy structure and implement highly developed search capabilities that will be invaluable to the site's users."

TourismROI will manage more than 12,000 landing pages with the solution, according to a press release from Ektron, and more than 1 million community folders that will each include its own collaboration features. Social networking will allow TourismROI members and users to collaborate in one central location for all of their travel and tourism business investment needs.

CEO Richard Miller explains that the objective of TourismROI is to build a tool that helps governments capitalize on the potential in the travel and tourism industry, as well as create a central hub for B2B organizations to better understand the industry.

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LTU Technologies Releases LTU-Finder 3.0

LTU Technologies, a global provider of multimedia content control solutions, announced the release of LTU-Finder v. 3.0, a tool for image and video recognition in the field of computer forensics. Offered as a plug-in to Guidance Software's EnCase, a computer forensic tool for law enforcement, government, and legal professionals, LTU-Finder is meant to reduce the time required to identify and review relevant image and video files collected during a digital investigation. LTU-Finder combines LTU's image and video content recognition technology with Guidance Software's computer and enterprise investigation capabilities to increase the speed and scope of forensic and legal investigations as well as e-discovery. LTU-Finder 3.0 includes enhanced image and video recognition capabilities and introduces text data identification tools that further automate large-scale file searches in the legal, e-discovery and law enforcement fields.

(www.ltutech.com)
 

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Improving the Web experience

Vignette reports three significant enhancements to its Web Experience Platform foundation: Vignette Content Management, Portal and Collaboration.

The company says Content Management is designed to empower users to streamline the creation and management of Web content and eliminate bottlenecks associated with the delivery and publishing of that information. Features include URLs to increase search engine site rankings, skip level upgrades to reduce the steps necessary to upgrade from older environments and integration with Vignette High Performance Delivery (HPD).

Vignette Portal has been engineered to enable business users to elevate their brand identity and engage in more personalized Web interactions with key audiences. New capabilities include integration with HPD and Vignette's recently announced Community product line, which can help keep content fresh and engaging. The company adds that it continues to support implementation mashups and composite applications by enhancing support for new standards.

Vignette says its new collaboration offering helps organizations drive productivity, improve knowledge management and more efficiently direct business processes that require interaction across disparate geographic and organizational boundaries. The latest release includes new social computing capabilities including ratings, reviews, tagging and usage analysis. Additional enhancements include improved usability and performance, and enhanced support for blogs, Wikis and discussion forums. Vignette Collaboration also supports auditing and retention policies that enable organizations to more actively manage knowledge relative to compliance.

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Strengthening open source search

DieselPoint has officially announced its new open source product, OpenPipeline.

OpenPipeline is designed to tie together otherwise incomplete solutions for enterprise search and document processing. It provides a common architecture for connectors to data sources, file filters, text analyzers and modules to distribute documents across a network. The software includes a job scheduler and a full UI with a point-and-click interface.

It comes fully functional with pre-built components, but also integrates third-party modules. Plugins for crawling content management systems, parsing special file formats and performing text analytics are available.

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