11 January 2006

Vivisimo Velocity 4.2 Wins 'Best Enterprise Search Solution' in InfoWorld's 2006 Technology of the Year Awards

Rated 'Excellent' by InfoWorld's Test Center, Velocity 4.2 is chosen as one of the Top Technologies of 2006 in the Content Management Division

Pittsburgh, PA—Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), the creator of innovative software to access and cluster the world's information for better search and discovery, today announced that Vivisimo Velocity™ 4.2 has been chosen as the "Best Enterprise Search Solution" in InfoWorld's 2006 Technology of the Year Awards. Velocity is the industry's first rapid-deployment, highly customizable enterprise search platform that combines dynamic clustering, search and federated search into one solution.

InfoWorld's annual Technology of the Year Awards recognize the top ten technologies that made the greatest impact during the past year, as well as products that best exemplify the implementation of those technologies. The Technology of the Year Award winners are selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors, who make their choices from all products reviewed over the course of the past year. This year's award-winning technologies are profiled in InfoWorld's Technology of the Year feature, published in the January 2 edition, and are available online at www.infoworld.com.

Vivisimo Velocity™ 4.2 is a comprehensive search solution that is purpose-built to give enterprises unprecedented speed and flexibility in implementing search solutions. Velocity enables enterprises to quickly crawl and index internal and external content, federate external sources such as databases, licensed feeds, intranets, Web sources and more into a single list and present the results in clustered folders all from a single administrative interface.

"InfoWorld's selection of the best enterprise search is based on in-house testing by their experts, which makes their selection of Velocity as a technology of the year especially gratifying," said Jerome Pesenti, co-founder and chief scientist of Vivisimo.

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.

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