Search Grows Up with the Launch of Vivisimo Velocity 5.5.

New Version Addresses Critical Enterprise Search Issues of Scalability and Fault Tolerance 

PITTSBURGH -- Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), a leading provider of enterprise search software and expertise, today introduced the Vivisimo Velocity 5.5 enterprise search platform. Velocity 5.5 brings unprecedented levels of scalability and fault tolerance to enterprises burdened with growing amounts of data and ever-changing regulatory demands. Available within 30 days, Velocity 5.5 is indicative of the inevitable shift in enterprise search from a peripheral end-user tool for business to an enterprise-strength application for the knowledge worker to harness and take control of business information.

Built for scalability, Velocity 5.5 is a milestone in the evolution of enterprise search technology, empowering customers to expand beyond the traditional limitations of departmental inquiries to enterprise-wide search without compromising reliability. As a result, Velocity 5.5 provides a dependable, usable and stable end-user search experience across all corporate departments.

"As the amount of enterprise information grows by leaps and bounds, organizations storing terabytes of data clearly see the business value of expanding beyond departmental search applications," said Susan Feldman, vice president for search and digital marketplace technologies, IDC. "In an information-rich enterprise environment, search becomes the logical gateway to finding information across all data types and repositories. Because Velocity 5.5 addresses the need to scale, and searches across heterogeneous environments, it should be well received."

With Velocity 5.5, network administrators can easily replicate instances of a single index across multiple services, allowing 99.99% up time. For example, if one server crashes, the second or third server storing a copy of that index will fulfill the search request. In mission critical search applications, this requirement is necessary or a corporation risks the loss of business and employee productivity. Velocity 5.5 also allows administrators to quickly segment an index onto multiple servers for maximum application performance in high usage, data intensive scenarios. Both replication and segmentation of indexes are accomplished through a simple point-and-click within the Velocity web administrative interface - taking minutes to configure, compared to other enterprise search solutions that take days to install due to heavy API configurations.

"We take great pride in pioneering the transformation of enterprise search from application-specific search, that is more suited for the demands of a single department, to enterprise-wide search platforms that serve as the starting point for information access across the business," said Jerome Pesenti, chief scientist of Vivisimo. "Through the availability of Velocity 5.5, enterprise search addresses essential organizational concerns and demands such as real-time scalability and fault tolerance."

Velocity 5.5 also offers new search functionality to enhance the end-user experience. Velocity now handles such advanced queries as word proximity, complex date ranges, and natural language. In addition, Velocity 5.5 offers a tool for query expansion. For example, some names have many different spellings because they were transliterated into the Roman alphabet from other writing systems (Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, etc.). For these names, the ability to expand a query to include all spellings is critical. Velocity 5.5 offers the ability to suggest alternative queries for misspellings, word stemming, alternative translations and synonyms - all based upon administrator defined content.

"Vivisimo Velocity is a versatile enterprise search platform that will serve as the primary information access application for our organization," said Arnold Verstraten, Manager Web Applications eCollaboration of Organon, the human healthcare business unit of Akzo Nobel. "The new version of Velocity will provide us with a diversity of data connectors, an intelligent clustering technology, a scaleable and fault tolerant access to information as users search across the terabytes of information stored in our world-wide content management systems, collaboration platforms and other data repositories."

About the Vivisimo Velocity Platform

The Vivisimo Velocity platform provides enterprises with innovative search solutions that allow users to access, extract and manipulate all available content, regardless of location. By combining the simplicity of consumer search with the flexibility and control of enterprise software, organizations can reap the benefits of increased user adoption and satisfaction without compromising on performance, scalability, security or the ability to configure a solution specific to its business environment. Based on a service-oriented architecture that enables rapid deployment, Vivisimo Velocity can be up and running in just weeks.

About Vivisimo, Inc.

Vivisimo does search right by combining the simplicity and innovation of consumer search with the flexibility and control of enterprise software. The company works with customers to understand their goals and quickly deploy solutions that maximize the business value of information--with an interface users love. Vivisimo serves its global client base through headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, and Paris, France, and partners throughout the world. Please visit Vivisimo.com to learn more about us and visit our Search Done Right blog to learn more about enterprise search.