Author Archive

01: Ovum: ISYS Breaking the Duopoly

We’re pleased to announce the release of the newest addition to our family of OEM search solutions — ISYS File Readers.  The ISYS File Readers are an embeddable set of document filters for extracting text and metadata from more than 200 file, email and container formats, in 60 different languages.  ISYS File Readers compete with similar products from Oracle (Outside In) and Autonomy (KeyView).  ISYS File Readers provide information management software vendors and companies relying on Apache Lucene with a powerful and proven document filter alternative.

For additional information, please review the ISYS File Readers press release, the ISYS File Readers product information page, or a recent write-up of the ISYS File Readers by Ovum.

02: Searching Google Patents With ISYS

We recently partnered with ArnoldIT on a demonstration site that enables visitors to search 10 years of Google Patents using the ISYS:web search solution for enterprise search, intranet search and site search.  ArnoldIT officially announced the new site today.  For the Google Patent Search demonstration site, we unlocked a handful of advanced search, discovery and mining capabilities (what Steve Arnold refers to as “beyond search” functions).  These include: parametric search; context clouds; intelligent query expansion; auto-classification; ISYS Entities; and metadata refinement.

We invite you to visit the Google Patent Search demonstration site and give it a try for yourself.  You can also try it in your own environment by visiting our website and requesting an evaluation of the ISYS:web search solution.

03: CMSWatch Search Report Updated

The folks over at CMSWatch released its “cross-check” of the 2009 Search Report.  We encourage you to check it out, as it’s one of the more in-depth information access report available.

With all due respect to the great search team at CMSWatch, we do have to highlight that the lag between vendor interviews and when the report is published is somewhat disappointing.  We certainly understand the massive challenge they face in keeping on top of this fast-moving, crowded market, but we all can appreciate just how much changes in this space over the course of nine months.

The pace of innovation and growth at ISYS is the highest it has been in our 20-year history.  As you follow this blog over the course of 2009, we’re confident you’ll see exactly what we’re talking about.  We very much look forward to briefing the CMSWatch team on what we’ve been up to since June 2008.  In the meantime, we invite you to review the report and then call ISYS to learn about the latest and greatest.

04: ISYS Names Bob Smith President, The Americas

The US division of ISYS Search Software has been buzzing over the hiring of Bob Smith as our new President of The Americas Operations.  Bob comes by way of the Silicon Valley start-up world, where we successfully led and grew a handful of emerging tech companies.  You can read the full detail of his hiring here.

This continues our exciting 2009 growth plans that began late last year with the hiring of Scott Coles as our new CEO.  It’s going to be a big year for your friends at ISYS, so stay tuned to this blog for updates.

05: “ISYS Anywhere” Demo at LegalTech 2009

If you’re based in New York City or will be attending the New York LegalTech show, we invite you to stop by our booth (#326) for a demonstration of our “ISYS Anywhere” technology.  ISYS is actively developing mobile enterprise access solutions that take advantage of the latest mobile devices, and we’d like to show you the initial implementation of this initiative.

Even better, when you stop by to see ISYS in action on the iPhone, we’ll enter you in our drawing to win an iPod Touch.  The demo on hand will be an instance of ISYS:web searching the email corpus from the Enron case.  You’ll be surprised by the level of insight ISYS offers right out of the box, so stop by and check it out.

06: NIE Interviews ISYS Customer

We’d like to kick off 2009 by wishing everyone a prosperous year.  Be sure to bookmark our blog, as 2009 will be a busy and exciting year for your ISYS friends.  We’ll keep track of it all right here.

The experts over at New Idea Engineering recently interviewed ADD Systems, an ISYS customer doing some great things with search.  Read up on it, then contact us to discuss your own 2009 search needs.  ISYS takes great pride in its customer interactions, so don’t hesitate to put us to the test.  We’ll spend as much time as it takes to get you squared away and “cooking with gas.”

07: Interview With ISYS CEO Scott Coles

An addled goose who goes by the name of Steve Arnold recently interviewed our new CEO, Scott Coles, as part of ArnoldIT’s Search Wizards Speak series of interviews with enterprise search executives.  The interview covers a lot of ground, including  ISYS’s plans for search in 2009 and beyond.

What’s clear is ISYS is taking everything customers and partners have come to know and love about us over the last 20 years and going even deeper to address the real challenges in search and help customers further leverage their search investments.  Some of the ways we’re doing this is through complimentary executive briefings and application audits.

When industry consultants like Steve Arnold say that search is broken, it’s largely the result of poor education and a disconnect between the vendor and customer.  Our executive briefings and application audits are designed to get us aligned with your requirements immediately from the onset, thus ensuring successful implementation and end-user adoption.

We invite you to contact us to request a complimentary session with our leadership team.  We’ve always taken great pride in the personal service we deliver to our customer base, so we’re pleased to further extend this benefit.

08: ISYS Releases ISYS:web 9, Appoints New CEO

We’ve been deliberately quiet as of late, thanks to a number of fun projects happening behind the scenes here at ISYS.  This week was just a taste of what’s to come in 2009.  In addition to announcing the appointment of our new CEO, Scott Coles, we also launched Version 9 of our ISYS:web information access and discovery solution for intranet search and site search.  The folks at EContent and Arnold IT covered it here and here.

Additionally, we rolled out our new website.  Collectively, these milestone moments kick off a new phase in our formidable history.  The year ahead for ISYS will be characterized by aggressive growth on all fronts, most importantly on the product development side of things.  We invite media, analysts and customers to contact us to learn more about our direction and what the roadmap looks like.

09: ISYS at Defrag 2008

We’re now live at Defrag 2008, where folks are beginning to arrive for this two-day event in downtown Denver.  ISYS is exhibiting its Version 9 technology on the demo floor, and our very own Derek Murphy will be participating on a panel discussion on “Next-Level Discovery” on Tuesday at 11:15 a.m.

If you’re at the event, stop by and see our new demonstration of ISYS:web 9.  We’re using an index of 450,000+ Enron emails to demonstrate our parametric search and refinement, as well as our new “intelligence clouds.”  If you can’t make the event, contact us to request a one-on-one demonstration.

10: Analysts Point to ISYS

In the last two weeks, ISYS has had the privilege of landing on a handful analysts’ radars.  On Sept. 30, 2008, Gartner Inc. announced its 2008 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, where ISYS is listed among many of the key players in the market.

Gilbane Group’s Lynda Moulton mentioned ISYS in a recent blog post, where she espoused the virtues of the nimble search players.  ISYS has long advocated an “iterative” approach to search, so we’re pleased to see the analyst community put some substance behind a philosophy we strongly encourage.

And finally, the venerable Steve Arnold was gracious enough to relay how he uses ISYS as one of his key tools for Google patent analysis.  Many folks know the fine work Steve has done tracking the GOOG, and it’s an honor to know ISYS plays a small role in his sought-after research.