Verity Announces Vignette Integration.Business Editors/High Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2000 Quickstart Program Enables Customers to Quickly Integrate Verity's Powerful K2 Toolkit with Vignette's Award-Winning StoryServer Content Management Application Verity, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :VRTY), a leading provider of enterprise and Internet knowledge retrieval solutions, today announced an integrated package of software and services to enable customers to easily integrate the Verity K2 Toolkit with Vignette StoryServer See Vignette V7. (TM), a leading platform for building online business applications. Current joint customers include, but are not limited to, Tandy Corporation Tandy Corporation was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, which is best known for purchasing and giving its name to the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based RadioShack Corporation. , BNA BNA Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. BNA Birds of North America BNA block numbering area (US Census) BNA British North America BNA Banco Nacional de Angola (National Bank of Angola) , Sybase, TimeWarner, PurchasingCenter.com, and PaineWebber. Adding Verity's K2 to StoryServer delivers scalable search capabilities that can handle extremely large volumes of users and content across multiple servers. The Verity K2 smart information retrieval system The SMART (Salton’s Magic Automatic Retriever of Text) Information Retrieval System is an information retrieval system developed at Cornell University in the 1960s. Many important concepts in information retrieval were developed as part of research on the SMART system, delivers an impressive combination of high-speed performance and concept-based search, enabling customers to locate what they want, no matter how simple or complex the query. "In this highly volatile online world where the competition is only a click away, companies need to differentiate themselves from their competitors by providing the right content at the right time," said Anthony Bettencourt, president of Verity. "In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , you need to make your site the easiest and most fulfilling place to shop on the Web. StoryServer, a leading solution for businesses, is running some of the highest-volume Web applications on the Internet today. Our QuickStart program is designed to enable our customers to quickly and easily combine the powerful capabilities of both K2 and StoryServer to deliver consistent, unique and relevant customer experiences in order to foster customer loyalty and, ultimately, customer retention." "Because so many of our customers have implemented both K2 and StoryServer, we've developed extensive experience in integrating the two products over the past few years," said Sunil D. Nagdev, Verity's vice president, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and technical support. "At the suggestion of our customers, we decided to make it even faster and easier to combine the power of K2 with the feature-rich commerce platform provided by StoryServer, giving high traffic sites a powerful e-commerce solution." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Raman Sud, vice president of engineering and co-founder of PurchasingCenter.com, "Our experience with the Verity has been extremely good. The bottom line is that, in a short amount of time, we were able to understand what it took and then easily and quickly integrate Verity search with StoryServer. We're extremely happy with the result, and our Web site is dramatically simpler for our customers to navigate. A formalized for·mal·ize tr.v. for·mal·ized, for·mal·iz·ing, for·mal·iz·es 1. To give a definite form or shape to. 2. a. To make formal. b. program will only improve an already great experience." About the Verity/Vignette QuickStart Program The QuickStart program provides customers with a straightforward integration of Verity's scalable K2 toolkit and StoryServer. The program, priced at $30,000, includes two weeks of Verity consulting services. The integration is StoryServer version-number-independent and is transparent to any pre-existing search software. Use of the familiar Vignette user interface dramatically reduces the need for retraining re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train of administrative staff. The QuickStart program is available now from Verity. About Vignette StoryServer 4 StoryServer(TM) 4 software is a leading platform for building online business applications and enables a variety of sophisticated, interactive Web applications to be developed efficiently. It delivers a unique and compelling combination of personalization, content management, decision support, and enterprise integration services to efficiently create superior experiences that attract, engage, and retain customers. StoryServer provides today's top-tier companies with a comprehensive environment for building, managing and expanding their online business applications. Its extensible design allows it to integrate easily with third-party solutions such as the Verity K2 knowledge retrieval application. About Verity K2 Toolkit Verity's unequaled combination of high-speed performance and concept-based search enables online customers to find items and information, no matter how simple or complex the question. The use of Verity's "fuzzy search An inexact search for data that finds answers that come close to the desired data. It can get results when the exact spelling is not known or help users obtain information that is loosely related to a topic. " technology automatically expands a customer's request to encompass products and categories, increasing the likelihood that a desired item will be found online. In addition, the Verity K2 Toolkit allows brokered search across multiple servers and multiple CPUs to provide the most relevant search results from many information sources without sacrificing the speed or accuracy of the results displayed. As the number of users, queries or data increases, K2 applications can keep pace with increased demands by adding new CPUs or servers to the network without bringing down the application. Delivering 24x7 fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. operations, K2 isolates failures of individual nodes or servers from the rest of the system, ensuring that applications are available when they are needed. About Verity Verity is a leading provider of knowledge retrieval solutions. Verity's product suite powers corporate portals, e-commerce sites, online publishing and media sites, customer care applications, and products from market-leading OEMs and ISVs. Verity solutions simplify the management and use of information by indexing, classifying, organizing, searching and retrieving data, as well as providing personalized information delivery and hybrid online and CD publishing. Verity's products are used by more than 1,000 corporations, e-commerce sites, government agencies, on-line service providers, Internet publishers and software developers worldwide. Verity alliances include Adobe Systems, AT&T, CDNOW, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , Cisco, Compaq, Dow Jones, Easy Software, EarthWeb, Ernst & Young, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, 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) , MD Consult, NewsEdge Corporation, Informix, Lotus, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , SAP, Siemens, Snap.com, Sybase, Tandem and Time New Media. This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Verity and the expected performance of its Quickstart Program. Actual results are subject to risks and uncertainties. Risks relating to Verity and its products are set forth in its Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com/ or by calling 408-541-1500. Verity and the Verity logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Verity, Inc. StoryServer is a trademark of Vignette Corp. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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