AltaVista Software Wins CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Award for Best Information Retrieval Product.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)--Jan. 29, 2002 AltaVista Software, a division of AltaVista Company, 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), was named best IT product in the category of Information Retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. in Intelligent Enterprise magazine's fourth annual Readers' Choice Awards. Through a voting process exclusive to Intelligent Enterprise subscribers, an audience of more than 100,000 strategic IT decision-makers recognized those IT products that best enabled an "intelligent enterprise." Winners in 29 categories were published in the Jan. 14 issue of Intelligent Enterprise magazine. AltaVista Software was selected over industry competitors Autonomy and Verity ver·i·ty n. pl. ver·i·ties 1. The quality or condition of being true, factual, or real. 2. Something, such as a statement, principle, or belief, that is true, especially an enduring truth: , among others, to earn top honors as the preferred business intelligence tool in the category of Information Retrieval. "The Readers' Choice award is proof positive that as our product line evolves, we continue to deliver tools that meet the critical demands of our customer base," said Phil Rugani, Executive Vice President, AltaVista Software. "Search and retrieval functions are becoming a must-have for any enterprise looking to improve business processes. With heightened competition and attention being paid to productivity applications that deliver the best return-on-investment, it is an honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. to be recognized as the top performer in this niche." Intelligent Enterprise Publisher David Kalman said, "Our subscribers are highly influential in the purchase of IT products, so the Readers' Choice Awards speak volumes to the IT solutions that are helping businesses maintain an effective competitive edge." AltaVista Software provides the enterprise with fully scalable, fully customizable software to realize the power of relevant business intelligence. In delivering advanced applications that quickly access relevant data buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. within the enterprise, AltaVista Software boosts productivity and uncovers critical business opportunities. 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 600 companies, including Amazon.com, Ariba, Reuters Reuters British cooperative news agency. Founded in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, it was initially concerned with commercial news but began to serve a growing newspaper clientele after the London Morning Advertiser subscribed in 1858. , Buy.com, DaimlerChrysler, Procter & Gamble and Siemens. About AltaVista Company AltaVista is a leading global provider of search services and software. The company's patented technology continues to set the pace, making AltaVista a leading search engine among Web users and premier provider of high-powered search software to intranet, enterprise and e-commerce clients around the globe. AltaVista is a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMGI). For more information, see http://www.altavista.com. AltaVista is a registered trademark, and AltaVista Software is a trademark of AltaVista Company. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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