New Features Significantly Improve Contextual Navigation Capabilities, Ensuring Unparalleled Search and Retrieval Experience
The newest release of the empolis:Information Access Suite (e:IAS) 6.0 extends the platform's leadership position in a variety of vertical applications including legal discovery, compliance enforcement, and investigative and intelligence scenarios. As a key accomplishment, e:IAS 6.0 introduces new relevancy management offering full control over all individual ranking factors, adding highly scalable term proximity as a primary ranking influence. As a result, customers will experience superior search accuracy and a higher level of quality in corporate decision making.
Dr Michael Seyd, member of DATEV's management board, summarizes the company's project experiences to date: "By singling out empolis' solutions for our information management needs, we've not only secured the use of leading-edge search technologies. We've also found a strategic partner to support us in responding to design and technical questions. Central to our decision was empolis' years of experience in knowledge management and the future investment security derived from the company being part of arvato AG, a Bertelsmann company."
Read about the Datev case study in the newly published Project White Paper/Case Study entitled "Don't Search, Just Find: The implementation of the e:IAS at the DATEV eG"! Click here to download your copy. Datev belongs to the main German information service providers and software companies and has its headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, with 26 Information Centres in Germany, an Information Office in Brussels, Belgium, and associated companies in Poland, Czechia, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy and Spain.
e:IAS 6.0 offers a wealth of new and improved features that significantly improve search and navigation experience, such as
- Contextual categorization and grouping of search results for dynamically guided navigation and retrieval refinement
- Fully automated extraction of key phrases based on state-of-the-art machine-learning approaches for high-quality query refinements
- Extended support for contextual highlighting of relevant phrases and passages for intuitive search result processing and visualization
- Improved linguistics for languages from Eastern Europe and the Middle East, facilitating language support for more than 30 languages
"State-of-the-art information access requires a high level of local configurability of the underlying technology to adapt to specific and complex customer scenarios", said Sue Aldrich, Principal at Greenhill Analysis. "This configurability requires unified access to unstructured and structured information sources as well as significant human control over the way relevancy is determined for search results. In today's business environments it is imperative to understand that search precision depends on personal experiences, expectations and business context, not on generic, abstract formulae. Hence, information access technology needs to be easily adapted to understand, respect, and leverage these individual aspects to deliver optimal value to organizations."
Other highlights of the latest version of e:IAS include:
- Expanded platform support - e:IAS 6.0 now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (Intel x64, 64-bit) and Solaris 10 (Sparc, 64-bit)
- Improved integration with leading J2EE application platforms (e.g. IBM, Oracle, BEA and others)
- A new console application for administrators that streamlines the management of many data sources while automatically optimizing infrastructure usage and load
- Native API support for environments based on Microsoft .NET 2.0 in the updated Software Development Kit (SDK)
More about the empolis:Information Access Suite
empolis:Information Access Suite (e:IAS) is the leading information access platform and helps people find, understand and relate any type of digital information. e:IAS integrates unstructured and structured content using unified indexing technology and advanced linguistic and semantic analysis procedures. e:IAS provides an array of contextual search features designed to deliver the right in-formation to the right people at the right time while fully respecting existing security, privacy, and other compliance rules of the organization.
Unlike competing information access solutions, e:IAS offers a full spectrum of search, analysis, and navigation methods ranging from high-volume full-text retrieval to associative content exploration and truly semantic navigation in a single platform product.
e:IAS is an integral component of many popular Internet services (e.g. e-commerce, multichannel publishing, corporate web presentation) and mission-critical enterprise solutions such as service resolution, self-service portals, sales support, corporate search, market analysis, intellectual property management, and intelligence and discovery scenarios.
