Archive for the ‘ISYS’ Category

01: 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.

02: 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.

03: Open Source Search – Ready For Prime Time?

Well… it really depends on who you are and where you are. In the US, vendors like Lucid Imagination are making a business out of the support of Lucene/Solr. There are even commercial search vendors developing products off a Lucene base. Open source search outside the US is not as prevalent. We see it to some degree in Europe, but not in Asia Pacific. When IT budgets are tight, doing some prototype development with open source to prove the merits of a business case certainly has value. Just make sure you are clear on the end goal of that prototype. Turning a prototype into a final commercial product only works if the technology was selected correctly in the first place. A lot of prototyping technology is designed specifically to generate a prototype, and do it quickly. Moving to a final product requires something different again.

But back to the original question…it really comes down to a question of your company’s appetite for risk. At a recent conference, the CIO of a large financial institution was talking about her attitude to open source in general. In her words – when something goes wrong you can’t hold the open source developer community accountable; sometimes you just need a commercial entity in there with you that you can put some pressure on, the “one throat to choke” so to speak.

Now you may be in a company that does embrace open source and is willing to tolerate the General Public License (GPL) aspects. If this is the case and you have enough expertise in house to deal with anything that goes wrong, then perhaps it is for you. If you do go down the Open Source Search route, be sure to come talk to us about the ISYS File Readers. The availability of document filters is clearly a key area of open source search that’s not ready for prime time.

04: Security for federated search

Thank you to all those who commented on the recent post, and as a number of you pointed out, yes, security is a challenge in an environment with multiple data repositories. Stay tuned for our upcoming whitepaper that will tell you everything you need to know about security in a federated search environment. We’ll do our best to have it out by the end of January!

05: 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.

06: 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.

07: 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.

08: 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.

09: 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.”

10: 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.