17 May 2005Vivisimo Velocity for Life Sciences Brings Power of Clustering and Federated Search to BioIT-World.com AudiencesLife Sciences and Healthcare News and Analysis Provider Selects Vivisimo to Provide Better Search and Discovery for its Online ReadershipBio-IT World Conference, Boston (Booth #202)—
Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com), the creator of innovative clustering software for better search and discovery, today announced that Bio-It World, Inc. has selected Vivisimo Velocity for Life Sciences (VLS) to provide its online audience 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. In a related announcement, Vivisimo today announced VLS version 4.2.
The organization will use Vivisimo VLS 4.2 to allow site visitors to search across information types, including 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 tool. Vivisimo's ClusterMed (www.clustermed.info) helps users easily navigate PubMed's extensive inventory of medical research articles by organizing the search results into categories. PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) library and includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's.
"One of our ongoing goals is to provide a better search experience for our audiences, including the ability to search disparate resources and an easier way to navigate search results," said Alan Bergstein, president and publisher, Bio-IT World. "As part of this effort, we were looking for the next generation of search tools that deliver a superior search experience for the user and provide us with the flexibility to build interesting and powerful new resources on our site. Velocity's combination of search, metasearch and clustering into a single platform will be a major part the architecture and feature set for the next generation of our Web sites."
"Perhaps more than any other market, life sciences is driven by the quest for more information and research that can lead to new breakthroughs and discoveries," said Don Taylor, senior director of life sciences solutions at Vivisimo. "Leading organizations in bio technology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and genetics rely on information retrieval systems to quickly find the most relevant and current information related to their field. Vivisimo is helping these organizations by providing a search suite that improves search efficiency and reach for the user, and provides more flexibility for the organization."
About VivisimoVivisimo 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. About Bio-IT World, Inc.
A business unit of IDG, Bio-IT World, Inc., publishes information across a variety of media to meet the needs of bio-IT, life science, healthcare, pharmaceutical and regulatory professionals. The company's award-winning publication, Bio-IT World, and accompanying Web site, www.bio-itworld.com, deliver the latest news, analysis and information on the application of technology products and services to enable the life sciences R&D value chain - spanning basic research, drug discovery and development, clinical trials, and regulatory compliance. The company's twice-weekly electronic publication, Health-IT World News, covers business, technology and product developments related to healthcare management systems and outcomes-based medicine. Established in September 2001, Bio-IT World, Inc. is headquartered in Framingham, Mass.
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