Customer Service
17 May 2005
Vivisimo Introduces Velocity for Life Sciences
Increases Productivity of Mission Critical Information Retrieval Workflows with Advanced Collaboration and Information Sharing Capabilities
Bio-IT World Conference, Boston (Booth #202)— Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com), the creator of innovative clustering software for better search and discovery, today introduced the Velocity for Life Sciences (VLS) search and discovery platform that includes meta-alerts, collaboration, document delivery and advanced reporting capabilities for improved knowledge sharing among functional groups across an enterprise.
Velocity for Life Sciences version 4.2 is the industry's first rapid-deployment, highly customizable enterprise-search platform that combines dynamic clustering, search and metasearch into one solution providing a single point of access for all information sources – internal and external. The VLS platform is built on the widely deployed Vivisimo software and includes the company's award-winning Clustering Engine. Velocity for Life Sciences features also include:
- Meta Alerts: Velocity allows users to create alerts from multiple information sources from a single point of access. Users no longer need to access each source individually; instead, they can initiate and receive alerts from several sources in one combined email. Alerts can be initiated simply by clicking on a result or by adding them through user profiles.
- Collaboration and Exporting: With a simple click, Velocity users can export results into Endnote, Procite, Reference Manager, Documentum eRooms, or email reports in HTML or plain text format. It can also save reports as text, HTML or XML, making it easy to share, collaborate and preserve searches. Velocity allows users to save their searches and return to the results at a later time in order to better meet the work habits of individual users.
- Customizable Reports: Velocity's comprehensive reporting feature is entirely customizable and enables administrators to ask and answer critical business questions. For example, administrators can learn what "resources" (journals, feeds, etc.) are actually used and which should continue to be licensed. Administrators can also learn what keywords or phrases are found through the search application, and how and with what frequency users reformulate their queries.
- Full-Text Document Delivery: Velocity has interfaces with leading document delivery organizations such as Infotrieve. Now through a single solution, Velocity users can access full-text documents with the advantages of third-party providers that maintain document ordering quotas for document cost control.
- LinkOut: Velocity incorporates the Entrez LinkOut feature providing full-text access to journals and databases that have been licensed by the organization.
- Document-Level Security: Velocity document-level security provides administrators complete control over access to individual documents or groups of documents. It allows only authorized users access to search results involving sensitive information.
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.
"The Velocity for Life Sciences solution greatly reduces the questions of where to search, how to search and how to sift through mountains of results," said Donald Taylor, senior director of life sciences solutions at Vivisimo. "Early adopter customers each have experienced a 100 fold increase in accessing and assimilating information in less time than before. Critical information sharing and collaboration through Velocity has also increased information sharing among primary functional groups, such as pre-clinical and competitive intelligence teams."
Pricing
Velocity for Life Sciences is priced based on concurrent users and scales with the number of documents to be crawled or number of sources to be metasearched. For more information, please call (866) 294-8484 x122.About Vivisimo
Vivisimo does search right by combining the simplicity and innovation of consumer search with the flexibility and control of enterprise software. The company works with customers to understand their goals and quickly deploy solutions that maximize the business value of information—with an interface users love. Vivisimo serves its global client base through headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, and Paris, France, and partners throughout the world. Please visit vivisimo.com to learn more about us and visit our Search Done Right blog to learn more about enterprise search.
