ISYS Inks Deal with UK’s Solcara
June 27, 2008
After a wizard from the Australian National Police spoke highly of ISYS Search Software, I checked out Version 8 and named it a “vendor to watch” in my April 2008 study Beyond Search, which the Gilbane Group published. Today’s announcement (June 27, 2008) about its deal with Solcara gives the company additional presence in the United Kingdom. ITWeek, a very good source of information in my view, published Matthew Lake’s “Firms Team Up to Deliver Enhanced Enterprise Search Solution.” You can read the story here. The key point in the write up for me is:
SolSearch Indexer aims to deliver a comprehensive and cost-effective enterprise search solution, which combines federated search technology with an advanced indexing capability. According to Solcara, SolSearch Indexer benefits from an enhanced functional administrator interface, and can extract entities and concepts when indexing documents, web sites and databases. These entities and concepts can then be used to support more efficient navigation of indexed content.
I like the ISYS system because it makes it easy to create a custom index for a particular collection of content. No fuss. No muss. For the work that I do, I appreciate ISYS Search’s metatagging. In my tests, patent applications and technical papers pose some interesting challenges. ISYS performs with the best of a small group of systems that my team and I use on a consistent basis.
But the major point of the announcement for me was the pressure this move will bring on Autonomy, arguably one of the top two or three vendors of search in the world. Solcara is confident that its approach can meet the needs of customers who may be interested in an alternative solution. Solcara’s announcement will catch the attention of prospects and Autonomy, a firm able to direct laser-beam intensity marketing on the market.
I will monitor the Solcara search solution, say “Congrats!” to the ISYS team, and keep my eye on the response, if any, from Autonomy’s office in Cambridge.
Stephen Arnold, June 27, 2008
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Thanks for adding these links.
Stephen Arnold, July 2, 2008