Multicosm Partners With Andel as ASP for Portal Maximiser Product.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2000 Multicosm Ltd., a leading provider of enhanced searching, linking and theming technologies for the Internet era, announced today an agreement with Andel to offer Multicosm's Portal Maximizer solution via Andel's ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). (Application Service Provider) service. Portal Maximizer enables companies to construct Web portals See portal. in a matter of days instead of months by automatically searching corporate and external Web content and linking relevant Web pages together. The partnership will enable Andel to offer the Portal Maximizer solution through its existing ASP model, enabling "dot-com" start-ups, as well as traditional bricks-and-mortar enterprises, to get up and running quickly and cost-effectively with their Web portal initiatives. Andel's model offers a multi-tiered, cost-controlled environment that provides high scalability together with premium support, security and maintenance services tailored to individual requirements, leaving enterprises to focus on business strategy and content management rather than high system administration overheads. "Our partnership with Multicosm is an exciting development because it allows us to deliver dramatically enhanced portal services to our client base through our content-centric ASP model," said Andrew Keating, Andel's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Portal Maximizer will enable our clients to deliver truly integrated Web portals to cross reference syndicated third party content, providing increased site 'stickiness' and ease of navigation." "We are excited about the agreement with Andel as our ASP Partner for Portal Maximiser," said Multicosm's Managing Director, John Darlington, "Andel's ASP model allows clients to benefit from the power and scalability of Portal Maximizer with low cost of entry and ongoing management overheads." Enterprises wishing to build information-rich portals face the challenge of cross-linking aggregated content derived from various sources, in order to provide the visitor with an effective navigation path. Cross-referencing has traditionally been implemented by manually authoring hyperlinks into the text. This involves a massive startup workload The term workload can refer to a number of different yet related entities. An amount of labor While a precise definition of a workload is elusive, a commonly accepted definition is the hypothetical relationship between a group or individual human operator and task demands. as well as incurring a large maintenance overhead as content is added, modified or deleted Deleted A security that is no longer included on a specified market. Sometimes referred to as "delisted". Notes: Reasons for delisting include violating regulations, failing to meet financial specifications set out by the stock exchange and going bankrupt. - and effectively prevents many Web sites from transitioning to a portal information resource. Portal Maximizer addresses these barriers to deploying portals by providing ultra-rapid analysis of text for key terms, and by injecting links 'on the fly' to cross-reference content derived from numerous sources. Portal administrators can deliver completely integrated portals that combine native content with third party content from numerous sources. By cross-referencing this content, sites are "glued glue n. 1. a. A strong liquid adhesive obtained by boiling collagenous animal parts such as bones, hides, and hooves into hard gelatin and then adding water. b. " together to create a seamless site experience for the visitor, easing user navigation and retaining the user's interest for longer periods of time. The administrator retains full editorial control, while on-going maintenance costs are significantly reduced. The Portal Maximizer solution enables links to be automatically and rapidly generated, and links pages in a one-to-many fashion, enabling effective navigation through an information rich portal. In addition, Portal Maximizer converts over 250 file types of non-HTML documentation into 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. format, eliminating this resource intensive activity. About Andel Andel is the first content-centric Application Service Provider (ASP) committed to providing "dot-coms" and corporate e-startups with superior e-solutions that will leave their competitors behind and in Internet time In the early days of the public Internet, Internet time referred to the breakneck speed with which companies scrambled to gain traffic and market share on the Web. A new business could come and go within a matter of weeks. . By merging expertise with premium e-business software and networking technologies on leading platforms, Andel levels the playing field to allow new business ideas to challenge the world's best - without encumbering new ventures with the ownership and investment previously required to participate in the e-business revolution. Andel delivers incomparable (mathematics) incomparable - Two elements a, b of a set are incomparable under some relation <= if neither a <= b, nor b <= a. performance together with paramount security, reliability and the scalability needed for businesses to succeed. Vertical market templates and multi-tiered solutions enable seamless upgrade paths. Andel delivers enterprise e-business solutions ahead of your competition. Andel's clients include major corporates and e-startups, including Reuters and General Motors Acceptance Corporation. About Multicosm Ltd. Multicosm is a leading provider of intranet and Web portal technology to enable knowledge workers to quickly access the information they need from the enterprise, intranets or the World Wide Web using theme-based navigation and dynamic document linking technology. In 1995, Multicosm was founded to commercialize research on dynamic hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the conducted at the University of Southampton In the most recent RAE assessment (2001), it has the only engineering faculty in the country to receive the highest rating (5*) across all disciplines.[3] According to The Times Higher Education Supplement , England. The development team and European sales force are headquartered in Southampton, and a North American operation North American operation Surgical oncology Radical surgery of a 'frozen pelvis', consisting of radical en bloc resection of the uterus and urinary bladder. See 'Frozen pelvis.'. 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