Endeca Unveils the Endeca Information Access Platform 5.0.New Release Gives Organizations Unprecedented Abilities to Inform Enterprise-Wide Decision Making ORLANDO, Fla. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Endeca, a next-generation information access company, today unveiled the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP (Internet Access Provider) See ISP. IAP - Internet Access Provider ) 5.0, a major new release that combines the ease of search with the analytical power of business intelligence. The Endeca IAP 5.0 brings together all the tools and techniques necessary to speed information discovery and analysis - search, Guided Navigation[R], ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. analysis, visualization Using the computer to convert data into picture form. The most basic visualization is that of turning transaction data and summary information into charts and graphs. Visualization is used in computer-aided design (CAD) to render screen images into 3D models that can be viewed from all and text analytics -- into a single, interactive user experience. It also introduces a wide range of new and enhanced capabilities, including Relationship Discovery, extended enterprise integration and best-in-class business control features to help organizations quickly deploy new classes of rich information access applications, while ensuring that applications rapidly adapt to evolving business goals. As a result, the Endeca IAP 5.0 gives organizations new abilities to inform decisions and derive insights that increase revenue, optimize resource allocation resource allocation Managed care The constellation of activities and decisions which form the basis for prioritizing health care needs , ensure compliance, and improve overall business performance. "From the inception of Endeca, our research and development efforts have always focused on putting people -- not machines -- in control of information access and discovery. The Endeca IAP 5.0 represents a major milestone in the user-centric approach to finding and analyzing information," said Adam Ferrari, chief technology officer of Endeca. "By introducing new ways to keep information in context throughout the access and discovery process, while eliminating the barriers to deploying new classes of rich applications, Endeca is giving organizations a versatile platform to transform information into a key competitive advantage." The Endeca IAP 5.0 represents a pioneering example of unified information access technologies. These technologies are designed to unite disparate content and data, while offering intuitive, interactive tools -- like search, navigation, alerting and visualization - to enable new classes of user-centric information access applications. Unified information access technologies are currently being applied to solve information discovery, enterprise search, knowledge management and self-service business intelligence problems. And they are increasingly serving as the foundation for next-generation applications that support regulatory compliance, product design, human capital management, customer data integration (CDI CDI compact disc interactive: a system for storing a mix of software, data, audio, and compressed video for interactive use under processor control ), intelligence analysis, and master data management (MDM (Modular Digital Multitrack) An audio recorder that mixes and records multiple tracks of digital audio. The two major MDM technologies are ADAT and DTRS. See ADAT and DTRS. ). For example, the US Defense Intelligence Agency Noun 1. Defense Intelligence Agency - an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition DIA (DIA) uses the Endeca IAP to provide analysts with new ad hoc reporting and discovery capabilities on dozens of disparate intelligence data sources. Endeca's flexible and adaptive security model allows the release of information to various levels within the analyst community and its coalition partners. As a result, Endeca has helped reduce the time to find and analyze intelligence information and is facilitating departmental collaboration. These benefits gained are an integral component of DIA's new SOA-based intelligence discovery platform. "Surveys show that the demand for unified information access applications has grown significantly over the past year, and vendors from both sides of the data and content divide are racing to help customers fill gaps in their business intelligence," said Sue Feldman, VP of Content Technologies at IDC. "Traditional business intelligence (BI) applications look at quantitative data. They can find "what" is happening. They ignore unstructured informationCothe information that provides the "why". Vendors like Endeca, who offer new kinds of hybrid architectures, can do both. They are poised to disrupt the market for information access." The Endeca IAP 5.0 Highlights New Relationship Discovery: New, interactive text analytics capabilities complement the Endeca IAP's search, Guided Navigation, analysis and context-sensitive presentation capabilities -- all integrated in a single user experience and all powered by Endeca's MDEX MDEX Malaysia Derivatives Exchange Engine[TM] technology Co to speed information discovery and offer benefits not possible with standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. enterprise search, database and text analytics approaches * Entity Discovery, Term Discovery and Cluster Discovery capabilities reveal relationships in enterprise content (records, documents, web pages, text files, etc.) based on shared people, places, concepts, tags and other entities hidden in free form text files * Relationships can then be presented in information access applications as Guided Navigation refinements, highlighted links, related terms and/or new document clusters, giving organizations presentation flexibility while giving end users new ways to interact with information * Like Endeca's signature Guided Navigation experience, new, valid relationships are continually exposed and recalculated based on the context of the user, offering key advantages over other clustering, entity extraction and text analytics approaches Best-in-Class Business Control: New features add to the platform's best-in-class Web-based Management Suite to put business users in control of Endeca applications, reducing dependence on IT and application developers, and ensuring that information access applications adapt rapidly to evolving business goals * New Workflow capabilities: Extends application controls to large business teams, while giving business managers and site owners new editorial control and sign-off on all application modifications * New Web-based Relevance Ranking Evaluator: Gives Endeca application owners the ability to understand the impact of different relevancy ranking strategies and quickly respond to changing business needs * New Granular granular /gran·u·lar/ (gran´u-lar) made up of or marked by presence of granules or grains. gran·u·lar adj. 1. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains. 2. Permissions: Delivers enhanced security and gives Endeca application owners new abilities to manage who has control over specific areas of information access applications Extended Enterprise Integration: New, out-of-the box adapters and expanded SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. support complement the Endeca IAP's rich integration capabilities to speed application development, simplify integration with key enterprise infrastructure and reduce total cost of ownership * New SOA Management interface: Gives IT administrators new flexibility to manage and integrate the Endeca IAP into other critical infrastructure * New Reporting and Visualization integration: Front-end integration with 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 AlphaBlox * Extended Integration with critical enterprise applications: Extended back-end integration with popular CRM/SFA (Salesforce.com), MDM (IBM WebSphere Product Center), and enterprise content management (EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. Documentum) solutions * Extended Platform Support: Solaris 10, RedHat 4, .NET 2.0 This combination of new and enhanced capabilities can be applied to support a wide variety of applications and business processes, delivering significant advantages. For example, businesses can provide the context needed to make better decisions by giving workers new classes of information access applications that deliver a single, interactive view of information - scattered Scattered Used for listed equity securities. Unconcentrated buy or sell interest. across disparate systems -- related to specific customers, products, suppliers, locations, and more. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies can give analysts a new generation of discovery tools to instantaneously reveal and explore unexpected connections hidden in large volumes of human and signal intelligence data. And publishers can increase page views per session (and related ad views) by dynamically linking and promoting content that shares related people, places or concepts. "Quality search is an essential tool for recall, but search alone does little to encourage exploration and discovery - key elements if you wish to meet all your users' goals," said Stephen Dunn Stephen Dunn (b. 1939, New York City) is an American poet. Dunn has written fourteen collections of poetry, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours. , Chief Technical Strategist strat·e·gist n. One who is skilled in strategy. Noun 1. strategist - an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) strategian market strategist - someone skilled in planning marketing campaigns , Guardian Unlimited Guardian Unlimited is a British website owned by the Guardian Media Group. It contains nearly all of the content of the newspapers The Guardian and The Observer . "Capabilities in the Endeca IAP 5.0, like Relationship Discovery, introduce new flexibility in how to reveal related information to users, and could offer us new ways to expose the full breadth of relevant content. We are also pleased to see Endeca's continuing investment in the operational aspects of the platform, from performance and scaling to orchestration orchestration Art of choosing which instruments to use for a given piece of music. The sections of the orchestra historically were separate ensembles: the stringed instruments for indoors, the woodwind instruments for outdoors, the horns for hunting, and trumpets and drums and deployment." The Endeca IAP 5.0 will be generally available in November 2006. About Endeca Endeca is a next-generation information access company, uniting the ease of search with the analytical power of business intelligence. Combining patented intellectual property, breakthrough science and a deep focus on user experience, the Endeca Information Access Platform helps people find, analyze and understand information in ways never before possible. Leading global organizations like ABN AMRO ABN AMRO Algemene Bank Nederland-Amsterdam Roterdam Bank (Dutch bank) , 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. , Boeing, Cox Newspapers, Dice, The (US) Defense Intelligence Agency, The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, The Library of Congress, Nike, and Walmart.com rely on Endeca to power business-critical applications that increase revenue, reduce costs and streamline operations. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, USA, Endeca is a private company with worldwide operations. For more information: www.endeca.com or info@endeca.com. |
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