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Vivisimo's mission is to help organizations maximize the business value of their information through innovations in search and discovery technology.

The Vivisimo Office Vivisimo's founders first developed new ways to categorize search results as a research project at Carnegie Mellon University's computer science department. After years of product development and further innovations, Vivisimo today offers Velocity—a complete enterprise search platform that unifies access to secure business repositories, presents search results with an unmatched user experience, and enables knowledge sharing across an organization. Velocity is making single-search-box access to wide selections of corporate information a reality at organizations large and small.

You can install Velocity in minutes, use its web console to configure access to diverse document, email, database, and web page repositories, and import their access rights so that searchers get just what they're authorized to see and nothing more. Use the console to spotlight high-value information, package repositories into search tabs, enable clustered results by topic or meta-data, enliven the search results with embedded images, and more, all without custom programming—just configuration.

Search Done Right Building on its other innovations, Vivisimo was first to offer enterprise social search, which lets enterprise users share their knowledge with coworkers by tagging, ranking, and annotating search results.

Velocity is sold as an installed or hosted application to enterprises, governments, and OEMs. Vivisimo provides expert professional services, acknowledging that enterprise search in complex corporate environments benefits from the shared experience of similar deployments elsewhere. Due to its modern service-oriented and XML-based design, Velocity is typically deployed in days or weeks, not in months or years as with legacy platforms that were architected years ago.

Vivisimo's public installations are a model of high-quality search. Try USA.gov, National Library of Medicine, or Norwegian Electronic Health Library. Read our case studies. Understand why the four leaders in enterprise search—according to The Forrester Wave—feature Vivisimo as the newest company and technology of the four. Or learn why InfoWorld testers named Velocity the best search product for three years in a row.

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What's a Vivisimo?

Vivisimo means lively, bright, or clever in Spanish. Vivisimo's founders picked the name to express their vision of enlivening the tedious process of cycling through siloed search engines and wading through masses of unorganized search results.