Exalead Anchors US International Trade Commission
September 14, 2010
Drowning in a sea of data, one government agency recently had a life preserver tossed its way from one of the search industry’s best and brightest. “U.S. International Trade Commission Selects Exalead CloudView as Primary Search Engine” said:
USITC end user site surveys indicated that people couldn’t easily find the information they were looking for on http://www.usitc.gov via its search function. In 2009, USITC decided to replace its previous search software and reviewed a number of other enterprise search options for a solution that met its needs, was easy to administer, and fit its budget.
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) (http://www.usitc.gov) handles issues of global and domestic trade with its quasi-judicial authority. In doing so, the agency collects massive quantities of data that both employees and visitors to its site needed to access.
The solution was Exalead CloudView, which “uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-used data in the new hybrid enterprise and Web information cloud.” For the USITC, specifically, CloudView aimed to provide two very specific functions. First, it gave outside users access to over 40,000 documents ranging from PDFs, spreadsheets, Word docs and more. Secondly, CloudView gave employees the ability to search file systems, folders and data repositories that, previously, had to be searched for in a time-consuming manual process.
The result is a highly efficient enterprise and web combination that improves the agency’s ability to monitor trade around the globe. The new system increased the range of available information, boosted performance and provided much-needed speed and simplicity to the Web site.
This is not only a big win for Exalead.
Stephen E Arnold, September 14, 2010
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