8 January 2008Vivisimo Velocity Wins 'Best Enterprise Search Solution' in InfoWorld's 2008 Technology of the Year Awards Three Years in a RowVelocity 6.0 Praised for its Business-Ready 'Enterprise Search 2.0' Features and FunctionalitiesPittsburgh, PA—Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), a leading provider of enterprise search software and expertise, today announced that Vivisimo Velocity 6.0
has been
selected by InfoWorld magazine as the 2008 Technology of the Year award winner for the best Enterprise Search Solution. Vivisimo has won the award
for the third year in a row.
"We are ecstatic to kick off the New Year with the highly-coveted InfoWorld Technology of the Year award," said Christopher Palmer, CTO of
Vivisimo. "Vivisimo Velocity 6.0 has forever changed the software playing field by introducing the market to business-ready enterprise search 2.0
concepts, such as social search and networking, virtual folders, tagging and much more for the benefit of increased collaboration and innovation
within the organization. Today's award from InfoWorld Test Center editors validates our 'search done right' value proposition and gives us a
tremendous sense of pride and momentum for 2008."
InfoWorld's annual Technology of the Year Awards identify significant technologies of the past year that promise to make the greatest impact on
enterprise IT strategies, and honor the products that best exemplify the implementation of those technologies. The Technology of the Year Awards are
not open to outside nominations and final selections are made by InfoWorld's Test Center analysts and editors. "I think the social aspects of this version make it the first enterprise search product to both make use of human knowledge and to deepen it,"
stated Mike Heck, contributing editor of InfoWorld magazine in his Test
Center review blog of the software in October 2007. "Vivisimo Velocity 6.0
extends its acknowledged easy search interface and ability to crawl enterprise repositories with social tagging, bookmarking, and networking." About the Vivisimo Velocity PlatformThe Vivisimo Velocity platform provides enterprises with innovative search solutions that allow users to access, extract and
manipulate all
available content, regardless of location. Velocity 6.0 is the first major enterprise search platform to bring business-ready Web 2.0
functionalities, such as social tagging, social bookmarking, social networking and mash-ups to the market. By combining the simplicity of consumer
search with the flexibility and control of enterprise software, organizations can reap the benefits of increased user adoption and satisfaction
without compromising on performance, scalability, security or the ability to configure a solution specific to its business environment. Based on a
service-oriented architecture that enables rapid deployment, Vivisimo Velocity can be up and running in just weeks.
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. ###
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