Comintell Launches its Collaborative Enterprise Portal Suite, Comintell Connect, with Infoseek's Ultraseek Server Embedded.SUNDBYBERG, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 1999-- License agreement between Comintell and Infoseek will help customers manage the flow of information within enterprises Comintell, a leading provider of information management solutions, today announced the release of Comintell Connect, a collaborative enterprise portal See corporate portal. suite for multinational companies. "Today, intranets have become the de-facto standard for information and communication within enterprises. However, many corporate intranets are suffering from unmanaged content and lack of organization, mirroring the early chaos of the internet," said Jesper Ejdling, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for Comintell Inc. "Comintell Connect can help enterprises to turn their intranets into a guide to the right content and to the right people, helping their employees use and re-use corporate information in order to create competitive advantage." Enterprise portals have recently emerged as one of the key tools for bringing together employees and information to help enterprises overcome 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. . An enterprise portal includes applications that enable companies to access and share corporate information via a single intranet based interface. A Collaborative Enterprise Portal (CEP CEP congenital erythropoietic porphyria. CEP abbr. congenital erythropoietic porphyria ), like Comintell Connect, combines 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. (documents, e-mail, web pages, etc) with community building. Community building is about nurturing and harvesting the information and knowledge that is created by people using structured and unstructured data. This includes developing human networks, competitive intelligence, information exchange, expert directories and collaborative tools. "A CEP is a portal with functionality and information customized for defined communities of corporate users, like competitive intelligence, purchasing, global account management, and similarly dedicated networks of people," said Ejdling. "We believe that CEP is a step on the road towards a so called Enterprise Information Portal See corporate portal. (EIP (1) (Enterprise Information Portal) See corporate portal. (2) (Extended Instruction Pointer) The program counter on x86 CPUs. ) and that these will be put in place much sooner than complete EIP systems." Comintell will integrate Infoseek Corporation's award winning Ultraseek Server and Content Classification Engine (CCE CCE Cornell Cooperative Extension CCE Corporate and Continuing Education CCE Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. CCE Commission de Coopération Environnementale CCE Centre for Continuing Education CCE College of Continuing Education CCE Certified Computer Examiner ) add-on into its Comintell Connect enterprise portal. "Corporate knowledge workers definitely have a need for an enterprise portal solution to integrate access to critical information sources, and it makes sense to incorporate the best search and content classification applications for these portals," said Andrew Feit, vice president and general manager of Infoseek Software. "Ultraseek Server and CCE are a great match for Comintell Connect, and we expect that their customers will be pleased with the overall portal solution." About Comintell Connect Comintell Connect is a "one-stop shop One-Stop Shop A company or a location that offers a multitude of services to a client or a customer. The idea is to provide convenient and efficient service and also to create the opportunity for the company to sell more products to clients and customers. " portal suite for enterprise information and collaboration that is adapted to a client organization's specific needs, leveraging existing intranet investments. Comintell Connect will offer clients a high return on investment by increasing employee productivity, providing information access to all corporate communities, focusing information usage and making intranets more attractive. Comintell Connect is not just a software suite, but is a complete information management solution that connects people and information. Comintell Connect includes the following modules; -- Needs Analysis An information needs analysis, resulting in a detailed information taxonomy that is consistent with the way the client views its environment. -- Content Retrieval Comintell will retrieve relevant information from filtered sources according to the defined information structure. -- Software Suite The software suite consists of a search engine, web-casting, content classification, personalization services and collaboration tools. -- System Integration. System integration is the core of the Comintell Connect solution, as it integrates independent information services See Information Systems. and software modules and forges them into client-adapted portal solutions. -- Community Training An advanced training and management development programme with the purpose of maximising the business value of people networks and information management, using a team based methodology. About Ultraseek Server 3.0 Deployed at over 1,200 corporations, universities and government agencies, including Boeing, Ericsson, MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and Hewlett-Packard, Ultraseek Server 3.0 delivers the searching and indexing power large sites demand. Comintell will include Infoseek's award winning Ultraseek Server as the primary search engine for customers deploying Comintell Connect portals. Ultraseek Server provides a complete search and index solution for the vast amount of dynamic information from growing corporate intranets and Web sites. Comintell customers will be able to take advantage of Ultraseek Server's indexing speed, scalability and flexibility and will gain access to easy-to-use search. Additionally, Ultraseek's Content Classification Engine (CCE) will enable administrators to organize large amounts of content into categorized topics, allowing users to both search and browse while helping them to more easily find the information they need. Ultraseek supports most common document types including 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. , 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. , Microsoft Office, Postscript and Lotus Domino. About Infoseek Infoseek Corporation (Nasdaq: SEEK), home of GO Network, is a premier global media network enriching people's daily lives by combining integrated Internet services with leading consumer brands. GO Network (http://www.go.com) has over 12 million registered users, and according to the lastest Media Metrix survey, reaches 39 percent of the US home and business market. Now one of the top five sites on the Internet, GO Network was launched in January 1999 by Infoseek, in partnership with The Walt Disney Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DIS), and is the online home of leading world brands such as ABCNEWS.com for news, ESPN.com for sports, Disney.com and Family.com for kids and family, Infoseek for search, and Disney.com and ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. .com for entertainment. In addition, Infoseek licenses its Ultraseek Server search and navigation software to companies for their own intranet, extranet and Internet sites. Infoseek is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information about Infoseek, please visit Infoseek's corporate Internet home page at info.infoseek.com or to request additional information about Infoseek, call our Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Request Line at (408) 543-6960 or visit our new investor relations web site at www.ir-infoseek.com. About Comintell Comintell Inc. is a leading provider of information management solutions. Comintell works with Global 1000 companies to build environments that turn knowledge workers into Intelligent Communities. An Intelligent Community is a network of trained knowledge workers who systematically work together to maximize the value of their combined knowledge. Comintell Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. that was founded in 1998 by the former management team of Ericsson's business intelligence operations. Comintell is U.S.-based with offices in Stockholm and London. To learn more about Comintell, please visit the company website at http://www.comintell.com or write to info@comintell.com. |
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