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01: Webinar: Document Filters and Search-Enabled Applications

It is a little known fact that document filters serve as a key first step in driving search-enabled applications. Due to the critical importance of document filters, many software vendors license this technology from one of only three commercial providers, of which ISYS Search Software is one.

To help attendees better understand document filters and the commercial and open-source options available, ISYS is hosting a 30-minute webinar in conjunction with experts from Lucid Imagination and New Idea Engineering on Wednesday, July 28, at 1 p.m. Eastern. Titled, “The Critical Role of Document Filters in Search-Enabled Applications”, the webinar will offer attendees:

• An overview of document filters
• The role they play in search-enabled applications
• Which formats and support levels are key
• A description of commercial and open source options

Presenting during this 30-minute webinar will be Miles Kehoe, President, New Idea Engineering; Eran Yaniv, Solutions Manager, Lucid Imagination; and Dave Haucke, VP Global Marketing, ISYS Search Software.  Register for the webinar today!

02: ISYS Upgrades Enterprise Search Software to v9.6

Today we bring you fantastic news that Version 9.6 of the ISYS Enterprise Search Software suite is now available.  Noted below are just a handful of the key enhancements, including automatic language detection, early binding security and significant increases in indexing performance.  Maintenance customers wishing to upgrade or parties interested in learning more can visit our ISYS 9.6 overview page and request additional information.

For this cycle, we focused on capabilities that would meet next-generation federated search requirements.  Given our exclusive focus on enterprise search infrastructure and embedded search solutions, we identified the following three areas as key to our customers’ success:

Language Support
To ease the findability of critical corporate intelligence, we introduced Automatic Language Detection, which instantly recognizes documents in 36 different languages. The benefit to end users is the ability to refine results based on a given language, or include a pre-query filter to restrict searches to a specific language. Also new in 9.6 is the ability to extend stemming to French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Russian.

Security
To cater for broad security requirements, ISYS has introduced “early binding” document-level security for file systems, which ensures:

• High-performance secure search (no penalty for filtering unauthorized documents)
• Result counts are 100% accurate on the first result page
• Refinement facets only available for authorized documents

Performance
In lab tests using a typical mix of corporate content, ISYS 9.6 achieved indexing speeds of 100 gigabytes per hour. Our enhancements at the text extraction level have enabled us to see an average indexing speed increase of 3x.

Learn more about ISYS 9.6 and request additional information.

03: Ben Franklin and the Evolution of Enterprise Search

Given how prolific he was, Ben Franklin could have very easily invented enterprise search in his day.  That is, if he hadn’t been so busy with everything else.  And even though he had an incredible mind, not even he could have fully appreciated what a game-changer electricity would be.  Today, we only consciously acknowledge electricity when we have none; otherwise it’s primarily an afterthought, despite the fact that harnessing and generating this power remains one of humankind’s greatest achievements.

Reflecting on this brought to mind a conversation I had with Sue Feldman of IDC some years ago.  During our discussion, she made a statement to the effect of, “Some day, search will be analogous to electricity.  When you turn on a light, you don’t think about electricity; you just focus on the fact that something has been illuminated for you.”  Perhaps others have viewed search in a similar fashion, but it’s an analogy that made perfect sense at the time and is even more fitting today.

While I can’t speak for the entire industry, the types of deals ISYS has been doing in recent months are more and more inline with this analogy.  Whether we’re talking about embedded search, or search as an application, slowly but surely search appears to be moving away from just a blank search box and into a world where search is primarily an enabling technology.  In that sense, enterprise search is neither the destination nor the journey … it’s merely the light that enables you to proceed with whatever it is you were doing in the first place.

04: Visit Us at LegalTech New York

I’ve been to New York City more than a dozen times in the last seven years, and it never gets old, even in February.  ISYS, as a company, has been traveling to NYC for the LegalTech event since 1994, which means it has been 16 years since we first started connecting more deeply with law firms and other software vendors looking to round out their technology with embedded search.  If you’ll be in town for the event, please stop by Booth #329 and say hello to the team.

What makes LegalTech pretty unique is the commaraderie of the event.  Maybe it’s because our focus is on connecting with our fellow exhibitors, but we always leave the event smarter than when we arrived.  We’ve never approached it as a hard sales exercise; we’re there to learn as much as the next guy and gal, so from that standpoint it’s refreshing.  For those of you who have direct legal responsibilities, or for those who are on the periphery dealing with corporate compliance and risk issues, I’d love to hear what you’re looking to get out of LegalTech this time around.  From our point of view, we’re still quite focused on embedded search for traditional ISVs/OEMs as well as SaaS providers, but we’re also increasingly engaging in conversations regarding early case assessment with commercial organizations.

For an event of this size to still be highly relevant, it’s clear these issues remain quite acute.  As always, I’m looking forward to it, so we hope to see you next week.  As a reminder, the event is at the Hilton New York, from Feb. 1-3.  I believe the folks at American Lawyer Media are offering a complimentary exhibit hall pass if you want to drop in for an afternoon.

05: ISYS Launches 2009 Enterprise Access Suite

ISYS Search Software today introduced its new 2009 Enterprise Access Suite by officially launching its ISYS Anywhere mobile enterprise search server.  As a whole, the 2009 Enterprise Access Suite is comprised of a core set of embedded search and infrastructure solutions for information access, management and reuse.  ISYS Anywhere specifically addresses the common pain of the mobile workforce … namely all the tools for conducting work remotely EXCEPT for the ability to search and retrieve key data from the field.

ISYS Anywhere is especially signficant as it merges all content repositories (from locally stored information to server data) into a single point of access.  This includes the ability to search email, individual PCs, business applications and more from a Blackberry, iPhone or any browser-enabled device.  Alternate solutions to date have addressed either desktop data or server content, but not both.

The full details of our new suite can be found via our official press release, via EContent Magazine’s coverage or in the technology section of our website.

06: ISYS Positioned as a Challenger

Today we announced that ISYS has been positioned as a Challenger in Gartner’s 2009 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology.  As you might be aware, the Magic Quadrant is one methodology Gartner uses to classify players in a market.  A large number of organizations worldwide place a lot of importance on reports such as these, so we take great pride in being listed among the 12 vendors that Gartner considers either a Challenger or Leader in Information Access Technology.

You can read the full press release here.

07: Webinar: The Changing Face of Search

ISYS is hosting a webinar this week (Thursday, Sept. 17, at Noon Eastern). The topic is “The Changing Face of Enterprise Search and Information Access.” The theme centers around the notion that search is rapidly evolving from being solely a front-end productivity tool into a dynamic, back-end intelligence engine.

Joining us to lend their insights into this topic are:

* Leslie Owens, Analyst, Forrester Research
* Brian Pinkerton, Chief Architect, Lucid Imagination
* Kevin Reester, CTO, Reveal

We’d love to have you join us for this discussion. You can register here.

08: Reveal Taps ISYS For Embedded Search

We have the good fortune to work with a number of great companies operating in the legal industry.  Reveal, an end-to-end e-discovery solutions provider, is the latest to come on board, and we’re excited to be working with them on their hosted e-discovery review platform.

Reveal selected the ISYS Integration Kit to embed search into its platform, which enables the company to roll out high-performance indexing, advanced search refinement and content mining, and several other options such as hit-highlighting, which helps deliver greater efficiency and accuracy to the review process.  You can learn more about our new partnership by reading our “Reveal Selects ISYS Embedded Search for E-Discovery Platform” press release.

We also invite you to learn more about our embedded search software, which has served the OEM search needs of organizations that include EMC, HP and Autodesk.

09: NEW: 2009 ISYS Enterprise Access Suite

It’s the dawn of a new era here at ISYS Search Software, as we roll out our brand-new technology: the 2009 ISYS Enterprise Access Suite.  Our new suite of enterprise search solutions for information access, management and re-use is designed to help organizations worldwide better leverage information assets, mitigate risk, reduce the overhead of compliance and e-discovery, improve decision making and enable mobile access to enterprise content.

With a rich history in embedded search and information management infrastructure solutions, ISYS is kicking off the launch of its new suite by introducing its ISYS Anywhere mobile information access technology.  We invite you to learn more about our secure mobile access solution and request your free evaluation of ISYS Anywhere.

10: Lucid Imagination Taps ISYS For Document Filters

Earlier in the year we introduced you to the new member of our family of embedded search and access solutions:  ISYS File Readers.  Today we are pleased to update you on one of our first ISYS File Readers partners:  Lucid Imagination.  We’re particularly excited about this partnership, as anyone who is following search knows the serious “street cred” Lucid Imagination has been garnering as of late.

In much the same way that our ISYS File Readers are disrupting the market for document filters, Lucid Imagination is shaking up the enterprise search industry and getting companies to look at information access in a whole new light.  With some of Apache Lucene/Solr’s key contributors leading Lucid Imagination, the company is making waves, and ISYS is pleased to now provide them with a critical piece to their offering.  We encourage you to learn more about Lucid Imagination, read up on our ISYS File Readers document filtering technology, and review what some of the industry’s leading analysts are saying about our partnership:

* CMSWatch: Lucene can read almost anything: Lucid and ISYS team up

* Beyond Search: Lucid Imagination Offers Connectors to Lucene Solr Systems

* CMSWire: Lucid Imagination, ISYS Partner to Integrate Lucene, Solr and Document Filtering