Corporate Profile for Outride Inc., dated Dec. 8, 2000.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services.
Published Date: Dec. 8, 2000
Company Name: Outride Inc.
Address: 3600 Bridge Parkway Suite 101
Redwood City, CA 94065
Main Telephone
Number: 650/486-2000
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.outride.net
Chief Executive
Officer: E. Casey Roche III
Investor Relations
Contact: Jaqui Le Blanc
Business number: 650/486-2000
Public Relations
Contact: John Tomakin -- The Weber Group
Business number: 415/616-6164
Industry: Internet Infrastructure
Company description: Today, we live and work in an ocean of information. The Web already has more than a billion pages, and the average enterprise stores multiple gigabytes of digital content on servers, intranets, and PCs. This data represents a tremendous resource but poses an equally tremendous challenge for users: finding the right information at the right time with minimal effort. To make sense of the data deluge Deluge (dĕl`y  j), in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of Noah and the creatures in his ark. , users need relevance -- which is exactly what Outride out·ride tr.v. out·rode , out·rid·den , out·rid·ing, out·rides 1. To ride faster, farther, or better than; outstrip. 2. delivers. Outride is a spin-out from the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Palo Alto Research Center - XEROX PARC (PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA, www.parc.com) Founded in 1970, PARC is a Xerox subsidiary involved in high-tech research and development. Although Xerox's headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, and manufacturing and marketing are in Rochester, New York, PARC is ). Our company was created to apply state-of-the-art relevance technology to the challenge 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. . We are commercializing a powerful suite of patent-protected software and services that help businesses of all kinds -- from Web portals and e-commerce sites to enterprises that have embraced intranet technologies -- serve their users more effectively. By embedding 1. (mathematics) embedding - One instance of some mathematical object contained with in another instance, e.g. a group which is a subgroup. 2. (theory) embedding - (domain theory) A complete partial order F in [X -> Y] is an embedding if Outride solutions into their technology infrastructures, our customers and partners can benefit from improved loyalty among site visitors and e-commerce customers and enhanced productivity from end-user employees. Outride's resources include a broad portfolio of intellectual property, an experienced set of senior managers along with a focused team of Ph.D.s working on advanced technology, and financing from well-known angel and venture capital investors. Outride is based in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. . |
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