Exclusive Interview with Exorbyte CTO
November 11, 2009
An exclusive interview with Exorbyte’s founder and chief technical officer, Benno Nieswand, is now available in the Search Wizards Speak series. Exorbyte makes high-performance search software for most databases and structured data format. The company has been expanding in the US market, and it has been attracting quite a bit of attention in the last few months.
In the exclusive interview, Mr. Nieswand said:
Half of our implementations occur in back-office processes, where error-tolerance increases automation rates. One example: A healthcare claims processing center handles inbound documents (40,000 / day) and other processes (like electronic status inquiries) for over 120 health insurance plans. Matching claims with procedure codes, patient records, and other data types can be very difficult to fully automate. They saved 1 Million USD in two years by increasing the automation rates through our error-tolerant data matching with their central data repository. The other half of our implementations are systems with user interaction, like e-commerce search for which we have developed leading search products such as the SearchNavigator, an incremental search AJAX framework.
In the interview he revealed:
Over the last year Exorbyte went 64-bit, which led to a significant increase in speed of our core algorithms. In addition we added improvements in navigation generation (faceted search) and entity extraction. Besides the continuous improvement of our search engine, Exorbyte developed a data quality solution that flexibly handles data quality tasks. It can be applied to processing address enhancement, deduplication, dictionary collection, document processing and more. The underlying MatchMaker search empowers it to achieve excellent results for each of these tasks. Our core algorithms also were enhanced by the capability to match things like “nieswandkonstnzbenno” with “Benno Nieswand, Konstanz” which is called Block-Edit-Distance calculation pertaining the same speed as for regular Levenshtein calculation. This greatly improves single field entry support. We use this for CRM applications for instance.
For more information about Exorbyte, visit the company’s Web site at http://www.exorbyte.com. For the full text of the interview, navigate to http://www.arnoldit.com/search-wizards-speak/exorbyte.html.
Stephen Arnold, November 11, 2009
In theory, the next time I am in Germany, the Exorbyte team will feed me Gans auf elsaesser Art and shower me with euros. In theory, of course. Notify the Senate Police that I am responding to promises of goose cuisine. Wow, I am delighted I admitted this. I am not sure about the goose meal, however.
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