Announcing Future Point's Integration of the dtSearch(R) Engine into the Starlight(TM) Comprehensive Visual Analytics Platform.BETHESDA, Md. -- Future Point Systems, a market leader in Visual Information Systems (VIS), and dtSearch Corp., a leading supplier of enterprise and developer text retrieval software, announce the integration of the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine into the Starlight[TM] visual analytics platform. Developed in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ), Starlight[TM] is a comprehensive visual analytics platform for advanced information management and analysis in both military and commercial settings. Starlight uses the dtSearch Engine to perform the critical function of indexing XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. data. "dtSearch provides the core search capabilities used in our Starlight visual analytics product," explains John Risch, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Future Point Systems. "The coupling of visual knowledge discovery tools with dtSearch's fast indexing and retrieval capabilities provide our users with an unprecedented ability to manage and understand extremely large quantities of complex information." Starlight. Starlight is software for "sensemaking," the process of creating situational awareness and understanding in situations of high complexity or uncertainty in order to make decisions. Starlight automatically organizes and summarizes large collections of information, and then presents the results in easily interpretable graphical formats. In this way, the application tames information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. and enables users to extract new value from information of all kinds. The Starlight Visual Information System[TM] consists of the Starlight Server and Starlight Client visual analytics application for providing advanced information management and analysis capabilities. Starlight's XML Engineering Environment[TM] (XEE XEE Lac Edouard, Quebec, Canada - Lac Edouard / via Rail Service (Airport Code) XEE Xml External Entity XEE Xml Enterprise Edition XEE Xml Query Execution Engine ) enables the rapid development of custom information retrieval and processing solutions. Together, these components form a complete visual analytics solution that couples information visualization technologies with advanced information preprocessing A preliminary processing of data in order to prepare it for the primary processing or for further analysis. The term can be applied to any first or preparatory processing stage when there are several steps required to prepare data for the user. ,storage and retrieval capabilities. dtSearch Engine. The dtSearch Engine provides native 64-bit and 32-bit developer access (including .NET, C++ and Java API access for Windows and Linux programmers) to dtSearch's terabyte indexing and searching. The software can index over a terabyte of data in a single index--as well as create and instantly search an unlimited number of indexes. The dtSearch Engine has over two dozen search options, including Unicode support covering hundreds of international languages. The dtSearch Engine also provides developer access to dtSearch's file format support. The software can display web-ready content (HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. , XSL/XML, etc.) with highlighted hits and with all images, links and formatting intact. Proprietary built-in HTML converters offer hit-highlighted display of other popular file types like MS Office, OpenOffice, ZIP, etc. For database formats like XML and SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. , the dtSearch Engine has precision searching, with support for BLOB data. A .NET Spider API (in both 32-bit and native 64-bit) provides developer access for web-based distributed or federated searching. The Spider can search public sites, secure content HTTPS (1) (HyperText Transport Protocol Secure) The protocol for accessing a secure Web server. Using HTTPS in the URL instead of HTTP directs the message to a secure port number rather than the default Web port number of 80. , password-accessible sites, and forms-based authentication sites to any specified level of horizontal or vertical depth. The Spider supports both static and dynamic (ASP.NET, MS CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. , SharePoint, etc.) content. The dtSearch Engine offers integrated relevancy-ranking of Spidered and non-Spidered data, including WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. display of web-ready content with highlighted hits. About Future Point Systems Founded in 2006 in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Future Point Systems specializes in software for visually managing, understanding, and deriving new knowledge from massive quantities of heterogeneous and complexly related information. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices in Washington, Oregon and Washington DC. For more information please visit Future Point Systems online at www.futurepointsystems.com, or join the Future Point Systems User Forum discussion boards to learn about the latest developments with the Starlight platform. About dtSearch The Smart Choice for Text Retrieval[R] since 1991, dtSearch offers 17 years of experience in text search. The dtSearch product line includes enterprise and developer text search products, meeting some of the largest-capacity text retrieval needs in the world. dtSearch products have received hundreds of excellent press reviews and case studies. (Please see www.dtsearch.com for these.) The company has distributors worldwide, including coverage on six continents. |
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