16 February 2005

First Wave of Enterprise Customers Adopt Vivisimo Velocity

Organizations across Public Sector and Private Industry Select Velocity to Combine Clustering, Search and Meta-Search for Information Retrieval

Pittsburgh, PA— Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com), the leading provider of intelligent clustering, search and meta-search software for organizing search results, today announced that the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System, Effyis Inc. (BoardReader.com), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and FatWallet have adopted Vivisimo Velocity™ to transform the way their customers and employees search.

Launched in Fall 2004, the Vivisimo Velocity search platform provides a single interface to search, metasearch and cluster internal and external content. Instead of long lists of results, users are presented with results organized into categories without incurring the cost and complexity of taxonomy building. Incorporating Vivisimo's award-winning Clustering Engine, Velocity delivers a superior search experience, unmatched implementation flexibility and increased productivity.

"With Velocity, we are able to simultaneously query multiple content sources, including search engines, medical literature and databases through a common interface and cluster the results into topical folders," said Deborah Silverman, associate director for resource management, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System. "Vivisimo has made the vast information universe much more manageable."

Here is how Velocity customers have deployed the solution:

  • University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System uses Velocity to provide integrated access to a large number of third-party resources for the faculty, staff and students in the schools of the health sciences, as well as the clinicians and staff of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Velocity lets users easily navigate the results, explore all available resources and uncover relevant content.
  • Effyis Inc., provider of online message boards search software, is using Velocity to search and cluster thousands of documents containing online survey data to easily discover the themes and trends in customer responses.
  • The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is the world's leading professional organization representing physicians who treat people with cancer. ASCO will use Velocity to let visitors to their website find what they are looking for easily and efficiently.
  • Fatwallet, leading provider of online coupons for thousands of everyday products, uses Velocity on its public website to let visitors easily locate special deals, vendors and products.

"Enterprises today are dealing with an unprecedented amount of unorganized and unstructured information that needs to be searched, integrated and organized. Traditional search approaches are complex, time-consuming and cost-intensive, often failing to deliver what they promise," said Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of Vivisimo. "Our Velocity platform provides the three elements critical for a state-of-the-art search facility—search, metasearch and clustering—integrated into one cost-effective, easy-to-install and highly-customizable package. Clustering has already emerged into the mainstream of Web search. Our goal now is to make clustering a staple of enterprise search as well."

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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