Vivisimo Clusters with Politics
December 5, 2011
Vivisimo was founded in 2000 as a search engine company. However, over the last decade, it has evolved into a leader in enterprise search by creating products that businesses and governments can use to manage their internal information.
Vivisimo has made it’s mark on the enterprise search industry by clustering search results, allowing users to intuitively narrow their search results to a particular category or browse through related fields of information.
According to the Vivisimo website, the company has released it’s latest version of Velocity, called Velocity 8.1-2, an enterprise search platform that unifies access to secure business repositories. Velocity’s social search features help foster collaboration by allowing users to contribute to organizational content by tagging, voting, annotating and sharing search results.
Vivisimo CEO John Kealy recently shared his thoughts on the current economic climate and the role of IT companies, in the Washington Exec article: Vivisimo CEO John Kealy 2012 Outlook: “U.S Does Not Control All Variables”
Kealy said:
The US does not control all the variables that will influence government spending.The continued unrest in the Middle East, troubled economic condition in Europe and our need to stay competitive with the emerging markets, especially China, will drive a need to spend even with our fiscal problems. As a supplier to the US government our strategy is stay cautious, be prepared to address unforeseen opportunities to help and make certain our value proposition not only helps achieve the mission, but does it in the most cost effective manner.
Can a service provider nation control “all” variables? By definition, a service provider responds to what others want; therefore, the service provider is not in control of “all” of anything. Vivisimo hedges and Beyond Search wonders why.
Jasmine Ashton, December 5, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Vivisimo Granted Patent for Clustering
August 1, 2011
Great news for Vivisimo! A news release titled “Vivisimo Receives U.S. Patent for Clustering System and Method” reproted:
“Before remix clustering, Vivisimo was the first tech firm to introduce on-the-fly clustering, which allowed users to see their search query results arranged in topic folders. This unique feature gave users the ability to review a list of similar results associated with their search. The invention of remix clustering took enterprise search to a whole new experience, allowing both consumers and employees to see what other subtler topics are connected to their search.”
If you haven’t had the pleasure of receiving neatly, categorized search results courtesy of remix clustering, check out Yippy (formerly Clusty).
Rattling off a client list including Cisco Systems, NASA, the German Intelligence body, the Institute of Physics, the National Library of Medicine, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, et al lends some serious credibility for Vivisimo; needless to say these aren’t your everyday Google users or trend surfers. If remix clustering is preferred by those in the business of information, that’s as good an endorsement as any.
So well done and congratulations, Vivisimo. I look for the clearing of this hurdle to spawn more innovation in the future or litigation, which seems to be important to many organizations.
Never hurts the ol’ pockets, either.
Sarah Rogers, August 1, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com, publishers of The New Landscape of Enterprise Search
Mapping the New Landscape of Enterprise Search
May 23, 2011
What has happened to enterprise search? In a down economy, confusion among potential licensees has increased, based on the information I gathered for my forthcoming The Landscape of Enterprise Search, to be published by Pandia in June 2011. The price for the 186 page report is $20 US and 15 euros. Pandia and I decided that the information in the report should be available to those wrestling with enterprise search. With some “experts’ charging $500 and more for brief, pay to play studies, our approach is to provide substantive information at a very competitive price point.
In this completely new report, my team and I compress a complex subject into a manageable 150 pages of text. There are 30 pages of supplementary material, which you use as needed. The core of the report is an eyes-wide-open analysis of six key vendors: Autonomy, Endeca, Exalead, Google, Microsoft, and Vivisimo.
You may recall that in the 2004 edition of the Enterprise Search Report, I covered about two dozen vendors. By the time I completed the third edition (the last one I wrote), the coverage had swelled to more than 28 vendors and to an unwieldy 600 plus pages of text.
In this new Landscape report, the publisher, my team, and I focused on the companies most often included in procurement reviews. With more than 200 vendors offering enterprise search solutions, there are 194 vendors who could argue that their system is better, faster, and cheaper than the vendors’ systems discussed in Landscape. That may be true, but to include a large number of vendors makes for another unwieldy report. I know from conversations with people who call me asking about another “encyclopedia of search” that most people want two or three profiles of search vendors. We maintain profiles for about 50 systems, and we track about 300 vendors in our in house Overflight system.
My team and I have tried to make clear the key points about the age and technical aspects of each vendor’s search solution. I am also focused on explaining what systems can and cannot do. If you want information that will strike you as new and different, you will want to get a copy of my new Landscape report.
Are you lost in the alchemist’s laboratory? This is a place where unscientific and fiddling take precedence over facts. Little wonder when “experts” explain enterprise search, there is no “lead into gold” moment. There is a mess. The New Landscape of Search helps you avoid the alchemists’ approach. Facts help reduce the risk in procuring an enterprise search solution.
New Version of Clustify
February 10, 2011
Clustify, a document organization program created by the Pennsylvania based company Hot Neuron LLC, has recently been given the ability to thread e-mails based on their content. This feature will make the analysis tool more efficient by reducing the number of documents that must be segregated and grouped.
An easy to use program with a simple user interface, Clustify organizes documents into groups according to common attributes and qualities defined by the user. If the user doesn’t want to define the clustering criteria themselves, Clustify can scan documents for key words and themes while designating a “representative document,” allowing you to easily find files similar to the one representing it.
The company was set up in 2000 by Bill Dimm, a graduate of Cornell University who holds a Ph.D. in theoretical elementary particle physics. Clustify’s customers include New Jersey Legal and the Digital Archive.
Ryan Compton, February 10, 2011
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Carrot2 Update
August 1, 2010
Carrot2 has developed a multi-faceted search clustering engine available as open source framework Carrot2 has developed its own Lingo and LTC document clustering algorithms, and offers ready-to-use components for fetching search results from every conceivable source and can automatically organize the search results into thematic categories! Carrot2 is implemented in Java, and very easily integrates with non-Java software. Interested in crawling your Web site? Nutch is an open-source project featuring a Carrot2-based search clustering plug-in, so you’ll get all crawling, searching, and clustering in one piece. Carrot’s spin-off company, Carrot Search uses Lingo 3G document clustering and specializes in multilingual clustering, synonyms, advanced tuning, and scalability for organizing text documents into clearly-labeled thematic folders. If you need accurate, on-the-fly search clustering engines, check out http://project.carrot2.org/index.html.
Brett Quinn, August 1, 2010
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