31 October 2005

Bio-ITWorld.com Rolls Out Vivisimo Velocity for Life Sciences to Improve Search Experience for Site Visitors

Life Sciences and Healthcare News and Analysis Provider Deploys Velocity for Life Sciences in a Matter of Weeks

Pittsburgh, PA—Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com), the creator of innovative software to access and cluster the world's information for better search and discovery, today announced that Bio-It World, Inc. rolled out the Vivisimo Velocity for Life Sciences (VLS) product suite to dramatically improve the search experience for its audiences. Vivisimo VLS provides site visitors with a faster, more precise way to navigate the Web site's wealth of content and information. Bio-IT World, Inc., a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), publishes information across a variety of media, including BioITWorld.com and HealthITWorld.com, to meet the needs of bio-IT, life science, healthcare, pharmaceutical and regulatory professionals.

"Vivisimo Velocity was cost-effective and incredibly easy to deploy," said Alan Bergstein, president and publisher, Bio-IT World. "With other approaches, it would have been a time-consuming, costly exercise to overhaul our existing search infrastructure and roll out new, innovative capabilities to our audiences. Early feedback has shown that site visitors like Velocity's cutting-edge features, including the ability to search across multiple sources and cluster results in a way that is much more useful for the user."

"Pharmacovigilance data mining technologies are rapidly becoming a mainstay in pharmaceutical research and development programs," noted Don Taylor, senior director of life sciences at Vivisimo, Inc. "However, the patients considering medications prescribed by their doctors have limited access to these tools. Velocity for Life Sciences powering the BioITWorld and HealthITWorld sites will help patients and caregivers uncover valuable insights into the safety and efficacy of drugs they may be considering."

The organization is using Vivisimo VLS to power searches of many information types, such as editorial, events and advertising, while returning results clustered by theme for faster discovery. The software also allows users to search across multiple content sources, including Vivisimo's popular ClusterMed product. Vivisimo's ClusterMed (www.clustermed.info) technology helps users unlock the extensive inventory of medical research articles within PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine and use it to provide a research-driven context.

Vivisimo VLS combines search, federated search and clustering into a single platform focused on creating new knowledge within the pharmaceutical industry. Unlike traditional enterprise search products, Velocity for Life Sciences enables enterprises to customize their crawling instead of re-configuring their content. VLS eliminates the need to re-format content or pre-define taxonomies, leading to unprecedented deployment speed and flexibility in addition to the power of dynamically organized search results.

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