EBSCO Focuses Search Efforts Around Endeca.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Endeca, the leading provider of Guided Navigation(R), Search and Analysis solutions announced today that EBSCO EBSCO Elton B. Stephens Company Subscription Services, a division of EBSCO Information Services See Information Systems. , and MetaPress(R), a division of EBSCO Industries EBSCO Industries is a privately held, widely diversified corporation with headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. It was founded in 1944 by Elton B. Stephens (hence the EBSCO acronym Elton B Stephens COmpany). , Inc., have selected the Endeca platform to power search, navigation and Content Spotlighting(TM) of multiple customer-facing applications. EBSCO Information Services provides libraries and research centers with online and print journal subscription services, e-resource access and management services, full-text and secondary database development and access, an OpenURL-compliant link resolver Software that converts a logical address or meta-data into the physical URL of the target data. See OpenURL. , online book purchasing and related information services. EBSCO maintains a title database of more than 300,000 title listings and upholds relationships with more than 78,000 publishers around the world. EBSCO's MetaPress division offers publishers of scholarly journals a comprehensive solution to their Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. needs. MetaPress provides an established way to publish e-books and other publisher material electronically regardless of present content or current format. Services include content management, Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. , branded Web site development and e-commerce support. The customer-facing applications will leverage Endeca's ability to quickly index and make accessible data and content from multiple IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) DB2 databases on EBSCO's IBM S/390 mainframe servers. "We were impressed with Endeca's advanced search, Guided Navigation and Content Spotlighting capabilities," said John Fitts, vice president and general manager of EBSCO's Information Systems and Services department. "The Endeca platform will help deliver a compelling user experience while providing simple, powerful tools to create and configure new applications. Endeca was the only vendor we looked at that could offer this combination." Used on Web sites, intranets, extranets and across corporate enterprises, the Endeca platform combines highly advanced search with Guided Navigation and Content Spotlighting capabilities to help people quickly and easily find the information most relevant to their unique needs. Endeca's approach to 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. mimics the human discovery process by integrating the two most common means of finding information online - searching and browsing - allowing people to continually adapt and hone their search based on their own determination of relevancy. Endeca's robust and easily managed Content Spotlighting capabilities promote relevant content based on defined rules, such as user profile or workgroup, search terms, navigation options and time of day or day of the week. This combination gives organizations the powerful and intuitive tools to maximize the value of internal and external information, regardless of source, structure or file type. Endeca customers include leading Global 2000 businesses and government agencies, like Ace Hardware, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. , IBM, IHS IHS (I.H.S.) first three letters of Greek spelling of Jesus; also taken as acronym of Iesus Hominum Salvator ‘Jesus, Savior of Mankind.’ [Christian Symbolism: Brewer Dictionary, 480] See : Christ IHS , John Deere, Lehman Brothers, The Library of Congress, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , The National Cancer Institute and several Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. "EBSCO's information access challenge is one that many companies can relate to: How to unlock and make accessible incredibly valuable information stored in large, enterprise server environments," said Steve Papa, founder and chairman of Endeca. "The Endeca platform is designed to give businesses, like EBSCO, the robust capabilities of next-generation search on a flexible and easily configurable platform - one that simplifies data indexing and the creation of multiple information access applications within an enterprise." Endeca's Information Access Solutions for Media and Publishing Endeca's Information Access Solutions for Media and Publishing help online publishers, content providers and other information suppliers quickly deploy powerful retrieval capabilities for websites, customer and employee-facing content services and online directory applications. The solutions -- directory solutions, online publishing solutions, and multimedia content solutions -- are designed to simplify and speed access to desirable information, and deliver a user experience that drives increased site activity and consumption of revenue-generating content. About Endeca Endeca's award-winning Guided Navigation, Enterprise Search, and Analysis solutions help organizations integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve business problems associated with 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. . Endeca's customers include a wide range of enterprises, including retailers (Barnes & Noble, The Home Depot, Wal-Mart); financial services (Bank of America, MFS Investment Management MFS Investment Management, formerly Massachusetts Financial Services, is a Boston, Massachusetts-based financial services firm. In its publicity, MFS claims to have invented the mutual fund. The current chair of the company is Robert Pozen. , Putnam Investments); manufacturing and distribution (IBM, Arrow Electronics, and John Deere); media and publishing (EBSCO, World Book and The Guardian) and government (the Library of Congress, NASA, and the National Cancer Institute). Endeca is a private company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. More information: www.endeca.com or info@endeca.com. Endeca, Endeca InFront, Endeca Navigation Engine, and Guided Navigation are registered trademarks, and Endeca ProFind and Endeca Latitude are trademarks of Endeca Technologies, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned herein are or may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies or organizations. |
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