Media Coverage

2008

• Alt Search Engines: "Hope for the future – Health Sciences Online"
  December 2008
  This is no pet project of an idealistic few. Take a look at the heavyweights on the advisory committee (http://hso.info/about/advisory.html) and you are bound to be impressed. Kudos to Project Director Erica Frank, MD for overseeing a mammoth, technologically challenging undertaking and for making such a magnificent contribution to the betterment of the lot of humanity and for doing so much to assist her professional peers, students and librarians worldwide. ... The point is that Health Sciences Online is a model of what Health 2.0 and Science 2.0 can be in terms of enabling everyone to work together: medical educators, academia, for-profit publishers, international institutions and NGOs to advance science.
• Life in the Fast Lane (Emergency Medicine blog): "Health Sciences Online"
  18 December 2008
  I really like the intuitive graphic interface for browsing and refining search. ... Has this changed the face of health information provision forever? Certainly it is one of the most altruistic and honorable health service resources on the planet and will enhance information provision to a huge number of health care professionals worldwide. It appears to have succeeded in addressing the need for accessible, selective and current online educational/training resources to promote appropriate care and policies.
• Pop City Media: "Leave it to Vivisimo to launch a social search enterprise for companies"
  17 December 2008
  By Debra Smits – Move over Facebook, social networking is growing up. Squirrel Hill’s Vivisimo, the fast-growing enterprise search software company, has taken the best of social networking and worked it into its Velocity Search Platform giving companies a powerful new tool, the ability to tap their own collective ingenuity.
• TECHburgher: "London Calling: Finding Your Digital Tribes"
  08 December 2008
  Pittsburgh Technology Council blog covers the recent Online Information 2008 trade show in London, reporting on innovations in social networking and social search, says, “Vivisimo offered a compelling, practical case for what can be done.... Others in the organization, down the hall or a few time zones away, can access and track their colleagues’ work through dashboard-type functionality. That new, user-generated layer itself becomes an asset by allowing individuals—again, in the same building or half way around the world— to quickly identify pockets of expertise within an organization. And that can be a catalyst for sharing knowledge quickly and avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort.”
• Pittsburgh Business Times: "Vivisimo uses employees’ expertise as teaching tool"
  7-13 November 2008
  By Beth Murtagh – At the monthly brown-bag lunches at Squirrel Hill-based Vivisimo Inc., anyone from a senior engineer to still-in-art-school-designer can have the floor for an hour to teach their sandwich-munching colleagues something new.
• KM World: "Search Gets Personal"
  15 October 2008
  The company claims that by making the process of modifying searches more transparent and giving more control over that process to users, Velocity 7.0 helps produce better, more satisfying results. Other implementations that hide the search modification process behind an "engine-knows-best" facade produce less relevant results and more frustrated users.
• NewsShark: "Vivisimo Introduces OEM Version of Velocity"
  14 October 2008
  The Gilbane Group’s blog covered the Velocity for OEM announcement, noting its key features: Modular design - partners need add only the specific function they need, be it clustering, auto-classification, search, federation, and more; Architecture - Velocity OEM occupies a small footprint in partner applications; efficiently connects various data silos; delivers search security; Flexibility - APIs, XML framework, multiple distribution models, and; Dedicated partner account management and technical support.
• GCN: "Velocity 7.0 will let users tailor Web searches"
  14 October 2008
  By Trudy Walsh - Velocity 7.0 uses conceptual search technology, which gives users the option of choosing between a precise search for specific documents or searching for all information related to their query, according to Vivisimo officials.
• eContent: "Enterprise Search Picks up Steam with Velocity 7.0"
  14 October 2008
  By Kinley Levack - A year ago, when Vivisimo launched Velocity 6.0, it focused heavily on incorporating collaborative features into the enterprise search solution. This time around, as Vivisimo today launches Velocity 7.0 "the theme is conceptual search—it’s about discovery and personalization," says Rebecca Thompson, vice president of marketing.
• eWeek: "5 Technology Businesses Poised to Boom in the Financial Crisis"
  06 October 2008
  By Chris Preimesberger - Vivisimo is listed among enterprise search companies in this article on IT companies that are in a good position to profit during “a recession or economic downturn in the wake of the Wall Street financial crisis. Risk management, e-discovery, enterprise search, e-mail archiving, and secure and managed file transfers are all positioned for a boom as the business and financial sector call on their unique services more than ever."
• KM Space: "Enterprise Search at Procter & Gamble"
  9 September 2008
  The company chose Vivisimo. They liked the end-user experience. What came out of the box was close to what they wanted. They also like the clustering of Vivisimo. They also liked the flexibility of connectors and architecture. They ended up with rapid deployment, going from start to live in 8 weeks.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Gathering next week helps local businesses with an interest in international trade"
  3 September 2008
  Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors to honor Vivisimo with a 2008 International Bridge Award, in the emerging commerce category, for hosting international visitors on behalf of regional economic development groups.
• Beyond Search: "Vivisimo Sells 38 Licenses in Six Months"
  28 August 2008
  Autonomy may have to check its rear view mirror to see if Vivisimo’s Velocity is catching up with the Cambridge, UK, search firm.
• Beyond Search: "Vivisimo: Organizations Need a Search Strategy"
  3 August 2008
  For me the key point in the Vivisimo guidance is, and I am paraphrasing so your take may be different from mine, is that an organization needs to consider user needs when embarking on an enterprise search procurement.
• Intranet Journal: "Vivisimo Cures Biomedical Library's Search Woes"
  24 July 2008
  Intranet Journal, a comprehensive news source for enterprise IT solutions, recently posted a Vivisimo case study on a customer, the National Library of Medicine. The case study details how Vivisimo won a competitive bidding process, helping NLM improve relevancy of results and user satisfaction with the Velocity Search Platform.
• Serve’s Sharepoint Blog: "The nice thing about Vivisimo search when compared with Fast, Autonomy and MOSS Search and Google Search Appliance ..."
  27 June 2008
  Recently, Forrester research announced Vivisimo as Enterprise search leader Q2 2008. Is it that good you can ask yourself? Well, to be honest I have evaluated and compared Vivisimo against Fast, Autonomy and MOSS search during a 6 months pilot about a year ago. Even a lot more vendors which did not make it past the RFI.
• InformationWeek: "Government Search Engine Expands With Vivisimo"
  26 June 2008
  By K.C. Jones – Vivisimo, an enterprise search company, on Thursday announced that it has expanded its search affiliate program, which offers a free search engine for all government Web sites. The search indexes more than 50 million government documents.
• Marketing Pilgrim: "Vivisimo Helps Citizens Search"
  26 June 2008
  ... It is interesting to note that government webmasters are seeking high quality vertical search solutions. Companies such as Vivisimo will likely begin to offer similar vertical search technology to industries. ...
• Beyond Search: "Wikia Search: Social Search Is Blooming"
  4 June 2008
  ... In this context, social search means that I can add key words or tags to an item processed by Vivisimo. The term is added to the index. If I provide that term to a colleague, the index term can be used to retrieve the document. An interactive tagging feature is useful, but it was not the type of functionality that I use. Others may find the feature exactly what is needed to make behind-the-firewall search less frustrating. ...
• Government Health IT: "HHS upgrades search tech on women's health site"
  3 June 2008
  By John Moore – A Web site run by the Health and Human Services Department's Office on Women's Health has adopted a new search engine that aims to speed the delivery of pertinent information. The site, Womenshealth.gov, now uses search technology from Vivisimo.
• Forbes.com: "Titan Wars – Searching The Enterprise"
  2 June 2008
  By Raul Valdes-Perez – Vivisimo’s CEO writes for Forbes.com that, "Just as search is the universal information gateway on the Web, it will also become the universal gateway to corporate repositories." He adds that Google’s and Microsoft’s size is not dominant in the enterprise, where, "Speed, innovation, service and some humility will help more than large pocketbooks."
• Information Today: "Insider's Perspective – The Search Gap"
  May 2008
  By Jerome Pesenti – The web has created high standards for usability; enterprise applications need to match and even surpass that standard. Pay attention to little details: breadcrumbs, tabs, default syntax, overall look and feel, and UI personalization, writes the chief scientist and co-founder of Vivisimo as he discusses why enterprise search lags consumer web search and offers solutions to close the gap between them.
• Government Computer News: "Wyatt Kash | A search with depth Editor’s Desk—commentary: USASearch.gov is revolutionizing how government Web sites serve the public."
  26 May 2008
  By Wyatt Kash - By making it easier for visitors to find this information, regardless of whether they started at a federal, state or local site, this simple but powerful search tool is effectively unlocking vast stores of government information. That’s what I call tax dollars well spent.
• Government Computer News: "Widgets to the rescue – USASearch.gov aims to make agency info easier to find with new spotlight tool"
  26 May 2008
  By Wyatt Kash - The new plug-in applications, developed for USASearch.gov by Vivisimo, are ... designed to address a frequent failure of search engines tethered to agency Web sites: getting often-sought government information and services to appear prominently in the search results.
• eWEEK: "Vivisimo Spruces Up Social Search with Discovery"
  20 May 2008
  By Clint Boulton - The company enhances the social collaboration technologies in its Velocity search platform for businesses.
• Beyond Search: "Vivisimo's Founders Interviewed: Raul Valdes-Perez and Jerome Pesenti"
  21 March 2008
  Stephen Arnold wanted to learn more from Raul Valdes-Perez and Jerome Pesenti, the founders of Vivísimo — more about their plans, technology, and views on the industry.
• Red Herring: "Searching the Enterprise"
  9 March 2008
  Joel Dreyfuss sits down with Vivisimo CEO Raul Valdes-Perez to discuss the emerging field of enterprise search.
• KM Space: "Knowledge Management with Folksonomies and Tagging"
  16 February 2008
  The tagging in Vivisimo gives you ability to enhance the findability of the knowledge artifacts inside the law firm and find out more about the people inside the law firm.
• Intranets: "Searching for Mobile Access"
  15 January 2008
  Learn how Velocity for Mobile is helping workers become more productive — even when they are on the road and away from their computers.
• InfoWorld: "InfoWorld – 2008 Technology of the Year Awards"
  8 January 2008
  Vivisimo Velocity 6.0 is selected as the Best Enterprise Search Engine for 2008.