Endeca Announces New Government Search & Analysis Solutions
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,-- August 9, 2005 -- Endeca, the leading provider of Guided Navigation®, Search and Analysis solutions, today announced the availability of new Government Search and Analysis Solutions -- a unique combination of information retrieval applications and services expertise designed exclusively for public sector organizations. Built on Endeca's next-generation search and Guided Navigation platform, the solutions help government agencies quickly deploy powerful retrieval capabilities for public-facing Web sites and internal information management applications. The solutions are tailored to the most common and pressing needs of government customers by combining cutting-edge discovery features and best-in-class security, with design, implementation and user experience expertise. Designed for intelligence analysis, knowledge management and eGov applications, the new offerings are the result of Endeca's extensive work with organizations like NASA, the Library of Congress, the National Cancer Institute, the US Army, the US Navy, the US Air Force, the Canadian Department of Defence, and several federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
All of the new solutions feature Endeca's patent-pending Guided Navigation technology, which combines the two most common approaches to finding information -- search and browse -- into one seamless capability. This unique approach accommodates true human searching behavior, showing people all possible paths for exploration, how concepts and content relate, and how best to hone and enhance a search as they learn more about the content available.
Intelligence Analysis Solutions
These next-generation solutions give intelligence and law enforcement agencies unprecedented discovery capabilities into both their structured and unstructured intelligence repositories -- allowing intelligence and law enforcement analysts to find and analyze critical information buried in vast repositories of records, documents, email messages and virtually any other source. Guided Navigation capabilities expose connections and patterns in data, and prompt analysts to ask new questions they wouldn't otherwise know to ask using legacy search systems. Robust security limits access to sensitive documents and information repositories based on agencies' existing authentication systems.
Knowledge and Information Management Solutions
Making sure that users can effectively find and reuse information is essential, both for government employees to be able to quickly leverage existing content and data, but also so they don't spend time recreating information that's already been created. Endeca's integrated search and navigation technology and advanced features (spell suggestion/correction, thesaurus entries and management, phrase recognition, stemming, wild card searching, etc.) allow users to find what they are looking for more easily, increasing user efficiency and effectiveness. These solutions can index and integrate content from over 300 different file types (located on file servers, intranets, email, databases, etc.), regardless of structure or source, and come equipped with out-of-the-box content adapters to simplify and speed deployment.
eGov Search and Navigation Solutions
These solutions are specifically designed to offer the easiest way for the public to find government information and services online, dramatically increasing information consumption. This carries over Endeca's solution that has become a de facto standard for user-facing applications in the commercial sector, in a solution tailored for eGov initiatives. A user-friendly interface gives users intuitive and familiar search and navigation capabilities, while introducing advanced discovery capabilities without the need for explanation and demonstration. And cutting-edge Content Spotlighting capabilities gives site administrators and non-technical staff the ability to promote contextually relevant content next to search results and other page content (e.g. timely crisis information and instructions, tax return forms, immigration documents, applications, etc.) based on search query, browse path, user profile and location, time of year, or date.
"We've spent the last 18 months creating a dedicated government search, navigation and analysis practice -- one that complements our remarkable success in the private sector with the technology and services most desired by government customers," said Jim Baum, president and CEO of Endeca. "This has included numerous enhancements to our platform, the identification of critical and desirable applications, the hiring of experienced business and technical staff, and partnerships with key government integrators to best support this market. The Endeca Government Search and Analysis Solutions are the result of these efforts and our experience working shoulder-to-shoulder with our public sector customers to deliver a new suite of tried-and-true discovery applications."
Endeca Industry Solutions
Beyond simple search engine software, Endeca Industry Solutions combine proven, cutting-edge information retrieval applications with professional services expertise -- tailored to the unique needs of specific vertical industries. Based on Endeca's extensive experience working with market leaders and industry visionaries, these solutions are designed to help organizations gain competitive advantages through improved productivity, reduced costs, increased revenue and superior customer service.
About Endeca
Endeca's award-winning Guided Navigation, Enterprise Search, and Analysis solutions help organizations integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve business problems associated with information overload. Endeca's customers include a wide range of enterprises, including retailers (Barnes & Noble, The Home Depot, Wal-Mart); financial services (Bank of America, MFS Investment Management, Putnam Investments); manufacturing and distribution (IBM, Arrow Electronics, and John Deere); media and publishing (World Book and IHS) and government (the Library of Congress, NASA, and the National Cancer Institute). Endeca is a private company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. More information: www.endeca.com info@endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
Contacts:
Alison Durant
Director, Corporate Marketing & Communications
+ 617.674.6335
adurant@endeca.com
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