Endeca Extend Partner Program Adds Leading Text Analytics Software Vendors
GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo, ORLANDO, FL – October 19, 2009 – Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, announced today the expansion of the Endeca Extend Partner Program to help customers quickly and easily integrate text analytics technologies with the Endeca Information Access Platform. Leveraging the extensibility of the McKinley Platform, and specifically Endeca’s Content Acquisition System (CAS), partners can build integrations to a public application-programming interface (API) supported by Endeca. In addition to a lower cost of ownership, Endeca and its partners enable quick and easy integration of Endeca records for the unrestricted exploration of unstructured content, providing joint customers with a richer user experience to deliver to their end users.
Endeca Extend partners in the text analytics category provide numerous value-added capabilities, including entity extraction, theme or concept extraction, sentiment analysis, document summarization, categorization, name resolution and matching, and geo-tagging. Participating partners include: Alias-i Inc., Basis Technology, Lexalytics, MetaCarta, NetOwl, Nstein Technologies, Semantia, and TEMIS.
Through the Endeca Extend program, Endeca and its partners allow customers to use extracted meta-data to provide new facets for Guided Navigation, cluster related topics, offer landing pages, and improve search relevancy. For example, publishers can offer consumers more relevant content by using extracted themes or entities to drive article and ad placement and develop targeted landing pages. Endeca customers can easily run their data through an Endeca Extend partner solution, extract additional meta-data elements from the text, and append that meta-data to the original content. This lowers the integration costs and adds significant structure to the content to enhance the overall user experience. The pre-built integrations allow joint customers the ability to implement best-of-breed technologies without sacrificing ease of integration.
“There are only a few search engines that enable relationship-based or semantic algorithms, and to date, there is no other that accomplishes refinement using a business point of view like our service does,” comments Robin Johnson, CEO of FT Search. “Newssift is the first major site to combine text analytics, faceted search, and semantic web on aggregated content – and it is powered by Endeca. Endeca’s Information Access Platform is the core technology that drives Newssift, which also includes solutions for data extraction, sentiment analysis, and knowledge management services.”
Endeca Extend leverages the McKinley release of the Endeca Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building standards-based search applications. The McKinley release laid the foundation for continuing improvements in speed, scale, and simplicity. Including text analytics partners in the Endeca Extend program builds on this open framework to simplify integrations and enable easy development of entirely new search applications.
“Massive volumes of unstructured text found in email, portals, and other repositories, contain a large percentage of critical information that is only useful if it can be identified,” said Jason Purcell, senior vice president of marketing and product management, Endeca. “Endeca and our business partners solve specific high-ROI business problems with lower cost-of-ownership, faster time-to-results, and greater value than any alternative. Through our partnerships with leaders in the text analytics space, our customers can seamlessly integrate our complementary technologies to help customers make better choices online and employees make better daily decisions.”
About Endeca
Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search applications built on Endeca’s technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved information visibility, customers make better choices, and employees better decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
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