KnowNow and Sphere Deliver First Enterprise Blog Search Solution to Market.Partnership Makes Internal and External Blogs a Recognized and Manageable Information Source SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- KnowNow Inc., the leader in enterprise-class Web 2.0 solutions, today announced that it has engaged in an exclusive partnership with Sphere Technology to integrate its blog search technology into KnowNow's enterprise RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. and syndication solutions. KnowNow provides enterprises with solutions that help them leverage public and private information inside and outside the corporate firewall to make better business decisions. As part of this relationship, KnowNow will market, sell and support Sphere within the enterprise - making it the first collaboration of enterprise-class Web 2.0 solutions in the market. "Sphere's unique capabilities are extremely valuable to our customers - presenting the opportunity to tap into critical information about their business, market or competition as it appears in the blogosphere The total universe of blogs. See blog. ," said Todd Rulon-Miller, chief executive officer of KnowNow. "Our growing list of Fortune 1000 customers in banking, technology and consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" are demanding enterprise-class Web 2.0 solutions to help manage their 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. . Sphere selected KnowNow because of our proven expertise in the enterprise." Tony Conrad, founder and chief executive officer of Sphere, sees new business opportunities for enterprises. "In order for businesses to become or remain market-leaders, they must be able to unlock and leverage information floating The time it takes to make information available to employees or to the public after it has been captured. within and outside of the enterprise. It's this disparate information that can empower managers to make better, timely and more profitable decisions and KnowNow is the vehicle for delivering that," said Conrad. The overwhelming volume of information typically inhibits employees from staying current and aware. The manual time required to dig through enterprise systems, Web sites and blog entries slows productivity and decreases organizations' ability to respond to opportunities. KnowNow and Sphere deliver the solution needed to address these business problems. About the KnowNow and Sphere Solution KnowNow is integrating Sphere's technology to provide enterprises a comprehensive intelligence solution that offers continuous monitoring of public and private information. With the addition of Sphere, KnowNow's solutions will extend deep into the blogosphere, finding new, high-quality and relevant content anywhere, anytime. The combined solution will distinguish between new and old information, understand the "authority" of the source of information, and suppress spam to reduce information overload. The unified solution allows enterprises to share Sphere-driven searches to individuals or groups. By centralizing cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. control of topic-specific searches, organizations can easily create and distribute standardized practices across numerous individuals or teams. The combined solution provides users with a single view presenting all critical information outside and within the firewall. About KnowNow More Fortune 1000 companies entrust KnowNow to deliver enterprise-class Web 2.0 solutions that increase timely and profitable business decisions than any other vendor. By allowing users to specify the information they want delivered, when and where they want it, as it happens, KnowNow unlocks and delivers the most critical information to create unprecedented business opportunities. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., KnowNow is privately held, with backing from premier venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] including Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Levensohn Venture Partners, Palomar Ventures, Presidio STX STX - Start Of Text and RSS Investors. KnowNow is a Microsoft Certified Partner. For more information, visit http://www.knownow.com or contact KnowNow at 1-877-561-KNOW. About Sphere Founded by veteran Internet search and 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. innovators, Sphere is a blog search engine that allows users to easily discover the highest quality and timely blog content and makes it possible for publishers to integrate the best blog writing into their website properties. Sphere's award winning Sphere It! contextual widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. allows users to instantly connect the news online to the parallel blog conversation. Sphere It! has been adopted by popular mainstream media and micropublisher sites such as Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Market Watch, Time, About, GigaOM, ZDNet and Techcrunch. For more information please visit www.sphere.com/ or the company's blog at sphere.wordpress.com. KnowNow and the KnowNow logo are registered trademarks of KnowNow, Inc. Enterprise Syndication Solution, ESS (1) (Electronic Switching System) A large-scale computer from Lucent used to route telephone calls in a telephone company office. The 5ESS is a Class 5 central office switch, and the 4ESS is a Class 4 tandem office switch. , and KnowNow eLerts are trademarks of KnowNow, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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