AltaVista Software Announces Support for Interwoven MetaTagger 3.0; AltaVista Software and Interwoven Team to Enhance Content Infrastructure Platform.Business Editors PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2001 AltaVista Software, a division of AltaVista Company, today announced plans with Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. (Nasdaq: IWOV), the leading provider of Content Infrastructure, to integrate AltaVista Software's industry-leading indexing and categorization functionalities with Interwoven MetaTagger 3.0 software. In support of Interwoven's comprehensive Content Infrastructure platform, AltaVista Software will deliver a powerful integration module to provide indexing and full text search of Interwoven's managed content via MetaTagger 3.0. "By integrating with AltaVista's powerful indexing and search technology, Interwoven now enables customers to intelligently search Web content in a production environment," said Kevin Cochrane, vice president, product management at Interwoven. "The integration will also allow Interwoven customers to pair MetaTagger's content recognition, content classification and controlled XML-based vocabulary features with AltaVista's search technology and skip the additional work of building and re-building a search index that is properly integrated with new Web content and categorization details." The integration will incorporate Interwoven MetaTagger's content recognition, content classification and controlled XML-based vocabulary features into AltaVista's search technology. By integrating with Interwoven, AltaVista will allow for enhanced search capabilities and the ability to index and search Interwoven managed content and allows for newly published editions of TeamSite content to be automatically and immediately indexed by AltaVista's search engine. "Interwoven's Content Infrastructure and AltaVista Software's technologies will be seamlessly integrated to deliver a next generation content management solution," said Phil Rugani, executive vice president, AltaVista Software. "Together, we will enable companies to turn the ever-increasing mass of information into intelligence." Today's launch of MetaTagger 3.0 strengthens Interwoven's extensive metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. framework by extending leading-edge technology to automatically apply complete and consistent metadata to content. With MetaTagger 3.0 Interwoven leads the industry with taxonomy taxonomy: see classification. taxonomy In biology, the classification of organisms into a hierarchy of groupings, from the general to the particular, that reflect evolutionary and usually morphological relationships: kingdom, phylum, class, order, discovery, visual vocabulary development Vocabulary development is the process whereby speakers of language enhance their working vocabularies with new words. The average persons' vocabulary consists of 10,000 words, regardless of native tongue. Usually, this represents a mere fraction of the lexis of that language. and full integration with Interwoven's Content Infrastructure, providing a complete, easy-to-use solution for customers. About AltaVista Software AltaVista Software (solutions.altavista.com), a division of AltaVista Company, organizes and turns unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. into valuable information for businesses, improves online customer satisfaction and provides a universal view of information across one platform. AltaVista Software's award-winning technology powers more than 1,200 companies, including Amazon.com, Ariba, Reuters, Buy.com, DaimlerChrysler, Procter & Gamble and Siemens. About AltaVista AltaVista Company (http://www.altavista.com) is the world's leader in search technology. Our patented technology continues to set the pace, making AltaVista the preferred search engine among Web users and the leading provider of search software to enterprises. AltaVista's search site delivers one of the most powerful search resources on the Web. AltaVista licenses its search software to more than 1,200 of the world's leading e-commerce firms, portals and enterprises. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., AltaVista is a majority-owned operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. of CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) , Inc. (Nasdaq: CMGI). About Interwoven Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV) is the world's leading provider of Content Infrastructure software. Its content infrastructure product suite includes content aggregation, content collaboration, content management, content intelligence and content distribution. Its products are the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for more than 700 Global 2000 companies including British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. , Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , General Electric, General Motors and Philips. Interwoven teams with the leading best-of-breed eBusiness application providers to provide customers an end-to-end platform for eBusiness. For more information on Interwoven and its proven XML-based Content Infrastructure solutions, visit the Interwoven Website at www.interwoven.com. AltaVista is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of subjects including, for example, the expected benefits of including AltaVista's patented search technology in the Interwoven MetaTagger 3.0 platform. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: AltaVista may experience difficulties integrating technologies, operations and personnel of recent acquisitions, AltaVista's products and technologies may not successfully interoperate See interoperable. with those of Interwoven or other third parties; and increased competition and technological changes in the markets in which AltaVista competes. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to CMGI's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including CMGI's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the most recently ended fiscal year. |
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