Verity Announces Search Product Family; Delivers Unified Results from Multiple Sources10 October 2005
Verity Inc.
(Nasdaq: VRTY) today announced Verity Search, a new family of business search
products that -- with a single query -- provides unified results from
multiple, simultaneous searches across targeted sources. In addition, Verity
Search addresses the top challenge facing buyers, managers and users of search
systems in large businesses: Confusion over the differences between consumer
and business search solutions.
A comprehensive study conducted among CIOs, IT directors and search
specialists by Verity served as the building blocks for the company's new
Verity Search product family as well as programs designed to help businesses
avoid or eliminate the confusion consumer search has created in business
environments.
"The business requirements for finding information are complex and may
require a spectrum of tools that extend beyond a simple search engine," said
Susan Feldman, IDC's research vice president for Content Technologies. "These
tools may include easy interfaces to help tune relevance to increase online
sales, reporting tools to monitor usage and uncover questions that aren't
answered, as well as extensive security at the document or subdocument level
to ensure that only authorized employees can access some information.
Categorizers, directories, parametric search, visualizers, data or text mining
technologies may be required as part of an extended search platform. These
requirements are inherently different from the requirements for consumer Web
search."
In its research among IT executives, Verity learned that a consumer
search offering frequently looks like a simple solution to a business' search
needs. However, it is that simplicity which creates more problems than it
solves. Consumer search treats every user identically, deals with documents
only and does not adhere to business policies.
At the center of Verity Search is the recognition that the business
search user will require a mechanism that recognizes who they are, what they
do and what information they need to make informed decisions fast. Business
search solutions must fulfill six requirements:
-- Be built for business with dedicated service and support readily
available;
-- Be tunable for relevance based on business needs;
-- Search all relevant sources, from internal repositories to external
Web
servers and paid subscription sites
-- Allow multiple ways to search for documents, databases and
applications;
-- Conform with a business' security, privacy and audit standards; and,
-- Provide unified results from multiple searches done simultaneously
from a single query
Verity Search ensures the most relevant results are delivered in a
unified, meaningful way to each individual worker or job role, in a secure and
compliant fashion.
"Consumer-type search is a one-size-fits-all method that utilizes general
keyword search technology, which is fine for HTML and document search, but
that is insufficient for a business," said Anthony J. Bettencourt, Verity's
chief executive officer. "The notion that what serves us at home, searching
the Web or even a PC's desktop, is misguided. Business search must be specific
to the company and the user's job; have an assortment of searching tools to
improve the range and precision of the search results that come from
documents, databases and applications as well as sources on the Internet; and
be compliant and secure."
Verity Search draws real distinctions with consumer search as well as
traditional business search point products. Verity Search integrates
enterprise desktop search with general business search and/or specialized
search application platform. Using the Verity Search family, a user can make a
single query and have the desktop, email, secure corporate repositories, the
public Internet, intranet and subscription-based Web sites be searched and
have the results displayed by user preference.
An integral component of the Verity Search family is the new Verity
Business Desktop product that will be generally available November 2005.
To let buyers, managers and users of search solutions fully understand
the differences between business and consumer search -- and better appreciate
how and why Verity Search meets the requirements of business search -- the
company is offering a white paper, "How to Select a Business Search Engine,"
that can be downloaded from the Verity Web site and will be conducting a
Webinar series on the requirements of business search and discussing the topic
at industry events.
About Verity
Verity provides business search and process management software that more
than 15,000 organizations rely on to gain greater visibility to and value from
their people, processes and information.
Verity business search solutions provide unified results from multiple,
simultaneous searches across targeted sources from the desktop to the
enterprise. Verity Search, built to perform in a business environment, is
tunable to relevance needs, secure and compliant.
Verity process management solutions bring together and automate paper-
and digital-driven processes so organizations can bridge the gaps between
their people, paper and systems and perform more efficiently.
Verity technology also serves as a core component of more than 260
applications from leading independent software vendors.
Around the world, our customers include companies of all sizes, from
small and mid-size businesses to the Global 2000, as well as public sector
organizations. Corporate customers include ABB, AT&T, AXA, Bristol-Myers
Squibb, Capgemini, Capital One, Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, EDGAR Online,
Ford, GMAC, Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Foundation,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, UBS and Verizon. In the public sector, customers come
from all levels and branches of government, including the U.S. General
Services Administration, the U.S. Department of Defense, including the armed
forces units, and the U.S. Departments of Energy and Justice. Independent
software vendors that integrate Verity technology include EMC Documentum,
FileNet, Lotus, Oracle, Stellent, TIBCO and Xerox DocuShare.
Listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol VRTY, Verity has its
headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide
Web site http://www.verity.com or call 408-541-1500.
NOTE: Verity and the Verity logo are registered trademarks or trademarks
of Verity, Inc.
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Source: PR Newswire
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