Professional Risk Managers' International Association Deploys Vivisimo's Enterprise Search Platform.PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh (pĭts`bərg), city (1990 pop. 369,879), seat of Allegheny co., SW Pa., at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers, which there form the Ohio River; inc. 1816. -- Vivisimo (vivisimo.com) and The Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA PRMIA Professional Risk Managers' International Association ) announced today that PRMIA has deployed the Vivisimo Velocity enterprise search platform. Velocity will power the organization's new Web site, providing more than 30,000 members in more than 165 countries with a superior tool for accessing and searching the vast information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. available at www.PRMIA.org. Over the past year, PRMIA searched for an upgrade to its popular ROSE (Risk Online Search Engine) utility in order to make it faster and easier to find relevant, quality information on www.PRMIA.org. Several members cited the consumer search site Clusty.com as a model search destination. After a formal evaluation process, PRMIA chose Vivisimo, the company behind Clusty.com, to power the new ROSE utility. Vivisimo Velocity will crawl To search the Internet for hosts, Web pages or blogs. See crawler. targeted Web sites, combine these searches with real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. news RSS feeds Summaries of Web site content that are published in the RSS format for download. See RSS. and deliver query results clustered into easy-to-navigate folders. ROSE will now use member preferences and behavior information, in conjunction with Velocity, to provide highly relevant and timely information in a more efficient manner. The result is an overall improved search experience for PRMIA subscribers exploring the wealth of data available at the new www.PRMIA.org. "PRMIA is excited to be working with Vivisimo to provide our extensive member base with a superior tool for accessing and searching our site's vast information resources," said David R. Koenig, executive director of PRMIA. "Vivisimo Velocity will provide our members with not only improved presentation and ranking of results, but also significantly improved quality of the results returned. With Velocity, PRMIA is crawling more than 1,000 Web sites, indexing nearly half a million documents, and combining searches with real-time news 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. feeds--all returned in clustered results that are highly relevant for our members." "PRMIA's new Web site is a perfect example of how combining the power of federated search Federated search is the simultaneous search of multiple online databases and is an emerging feature of automated, Web-based library and information retrieval systems. It is also often referred to as a portal, as opposed to simply a Web-based search engine. with clustering technology enables organizations in vertical markets to develop powerful online resources for their target audience," said Joe LeBas, vice president at Vivisimo, Inc. "Velocity makes it possible to bring together an array of industry-specific resources to fuel a site that is extremely rich in content and yet easy to navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web. (2) To move through the menu structure in a software application. . The result, in this case, is a powerful one-stop destination and very user-friendly search experience for risk managers." About Vivisimo Vivisimo, Inc. creates innovative software to access and cluster the world's information, for better search and discovery. Fortune 500 businesses, government agencies, academia, and millions of searchers use Vivisimo's clustering technology to better organize and navigate massive amounts of information. Vivisimo is the creator of the popular Clusty.com consumer search engine and serves enterprise customers through its suite of clustering, search, and federated search products. Vivisimo serves its global client base through headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Paris, France, and partners throughout the world. Please visit www.Vivisimo.com to learn more. About PRMIA PRMIA is the Professional Risk Managers' International Association. Formed in January of 2002, PRMIA is the premier meeting place of the risk profession with more than 60 chapters around the world and over 30,000 members from more than 165 countries. A non-profit, member-led association of professionals, PRMIA is dedicated to advancing the standards of the profession worldwide through the free exchange of ideas. PRMIA offers the only globally endorsed Professional Risk Manager (PRM PRM Partner Relationship Management PRM Parameter PRM Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (US State Department) PRM Partidul Romania Mare (Romania Mare Party) PRM Professional Risk Manager ) certification program, pursued by over 1,300 active candidates in 83 countries, more than any other risk certification program. More information can be found at www.PRMIA.org. |
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