In the News

2007

  • EContent: "Velocity 6.0 Taps into Human Resources for Enterprise Search"
    23 October 2007
    When Vivisimo began looking for a fresh take for the annual update to its enterprise search engine Velocity, developers decided to study the employees using it on their intranets every day.

  • InfoWorld: "Preview: Enterprise search gets social with Vivisimo Velocity 6"
    18 October 2007
    After previewing Vivisimo Velocity 6.0, it's clear to me that the product's social features not only harness human knowledge to boost result accuracy, but introduce a whole new level of collaboration with content mashups and other Web 2.0 functions.

  • Caselines: "Vivisimo hits the bullseye - Rebecca Thompson on Velocity 6.0"
    17 October 2007
    Enterprise search is a natural fit with collaborative software because the search goes across content domains and pulls in content from different sources. Social search gives people power and control over their search, also leads to buy-in through their investment and participation in the process.

  • KM Space: "Using Social Search to Drive Innovation through Collaboration"
    16 October 2007
    I sat in on this webinar sponsored by KM World. I was knocked over by the demonstration of Vivisimo's new Velocity 6.0 search tool.

  • eWEEK: "What Once Was Play, Now Is Work: Social Tagging and Enterprise Search"
    9 October 2007
    Consumer practices such as social tagging, bookmarking and networking are popping up in enterprise technology, such as Vivisimo's Velocity enterprise search platform.

  • ZDNet: "Search: Tomorrow's Enteprise 2.0 Platform?"
    8 October 2007
    Today, Vivisimo announced that it was adding social networking capabilities to its search engine, Velocity 6.0. The new feature will leap frog Vivisimo to the front of the pack of social-aware searching in a number of interesting ways.

  • Computerworld: "New Tool Marries Web 2.0 and Search"
    8 October 2007
    Vivisimo Inc. today unveiled new technology that it said can link Web 2.0 concepts like social networking and tagging with enterprise search, allowing companies to tap into their corporate collective knowledge.

  • eWEEK: "Vivisimo Marries Search, Social Networking"
    8 October 2007
    Looking to offer a more collaborative experience for its customers, Vivisimo on Oct. 8 said it will soon add social tagging, bookmarking and networking capabilities to its enterprise search platform.

  • Byte and Switch: "Vivisimo Intros Velocity 6.0"
    8 October 2007
    The Vivisimo Velocity 6.0 enterprise search platform will enable enterprises to increase collaboration among workers, accelerate innovation, and gain valuable insight into the collective intelligence of their organizations.

  • Byte and Switch: "Vivisimo, Interwoven Team Up"
    20 August 2007
    "Velocity will bring a new level of enterprise search capabilities to the relatively untapped professional services market through our relationship with Interwoven," said Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of Vivisimo.

  • InformationWeek: "The Ultimate Search Engine"
    By J. Nicholas Hoover, 4 August 2007
    Vivisimo's Clustering Engine determines that concepts such as "pretty" and "gorgeous" are related, then groups results into categories based on such commonalities. "Themes help people contextualize data and give them some kind of framework for how information is organized," says Rebecca Thompson, the company's VP of marketing.

  • Pop City: "Pittsburgh Innovates"
    By Deb Smit, 1 August 2007
    Vivisimo, the Squirrel Hill-based enterprise search software company, has taken growth to a new level, quadrupling its workforce in little more than a year. It has also extended its reach into Latin America and has established a European base in Paris.

  • KMWorld: "New Zealand Streamlines Web Search"
    25 July 2007
    Government officials chose the Vivisimo Velocity search platform, in part because of its clustering capabilities that intuitively and visually arrange search results.

  • DM News: "Companies Need Better Site Search"
    By Giselle Abramovich, 28 May 2007
    Companies spend millions of dollars to attract visitors to their Web sites. However, top-name brands continue to make common mistakes in site search, according to Rebecca Thompson, vice president of marketing at Vivisimo.

  • ZDNet: "Enterprise Search: How Long to Deploy?"
    By Larry Dignan, 18 May 2007
    Jerome Presenti, chief scientist of enterprise search provider Vivisimo, said the company's focus is on two items: Making search easy and rapid deployment.

  • Network World: "Vivisimo Releases Mobile Enterprise Search Tool"
    By Jon Brodkin, 15 May 2007
    Vivisimo's Velocity for Mobile product attempts to overcome the shortcomings of mobile user interfaces by clustering results into categories such as call center data, white papers, marketing and sales materials, or resumes, just as its full enterprise search tool does.

  • BizTechTalk: "Enterprise Search Grows Up"
    By Dan Keldsen, 16 April 2007
    In this interview with Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO and Co-founder of Vivisimo, we discuss what Vivisimo has been targeting to push Enterprise Search through it's next growth spurt.

  • KMWorld: "Search: Sophisticated yet Simple"
    By Judith Lamont, 1 April 2007
    "We are now using Vivisimo Velocity to search the Internet more effectively and also to help our users access the databases from our subscription services in a simpler way."

  • Intranet Journal: "Vivisimo Improves Search Tool's Scope"
    By P.G. Daly, 20 February 2007
    Vivisimo recently released version 5.5 of its Velocity search product, and—while the company's motto has been "Search Done Right"—with this new release they liken it to having enterprise search "grow up" and scale up to a whole new level.

  • KMWorld: "Stable, Scalable Search"
    14 February 2007
    Vivisimo has introduced its Velocity 5.5 enterprise search platform, which, the company says, delivers high scalability and fault tolerance to enterprises with growing amounts of data and ever-changing regulatory demands.

  • Information Week: "Vivisimo Improves its Search Scalability"
    By W. David Gardner, 12 February 2007
    Replication and segmentation of indexes are carried out via simple point-and-click interface procedures; the process can take minutes rather than the days that were required previously, the company said.

  • Federal Computer Week: "Search Gets Smarter"
    By Maggie Biggs, 12 February 2007
    Underlying the USA.gov site are two complementary search-related technologies. The first is Vivisimo, a search technology that produces clustered results in a manner that makes it easier to pinpoint accurate information.

  • Network World: "Vivisimo's New Search Product Simplifies Replication of Indexes"
    By Jon Brokin, 12 February 2007
    The new version of the search engine, Velocity 5.5, allows administrators to copy an instance of an index onto additional servers through a simple point-and-click interface.

  • Information Today: "Vivisimo to Power Web Searching for NLM Sites"
    By Paula J. Hane, 29 January 2007
    Based on our scoring criteria for the prototypes, Vivisimo offered the best search results, based on the content and metadata of the NLM Web documents.

  • InfoWorld: "National Library of Medicine Adds Vivisimo Search"
    By Grant Gross, 18 January 2007
    Vivisimo, which has also supplied enterprise search services to the U.S. Department of Defense and USA.gov, will power search functions on NLM's Web pages, documents, and archives, the company said Wednesday.

  • InfoWorld: "Technology of the Year Awards"
    2 January 2007
    Vivisimo Velocity is selected as Best Enterprise Search Engine for 2007.

  • TechWeb: "Dashboard: Vendors Jump on e-Discovery Bandwagon"
    By Scott Eden, 2 January 2007
    Search vendor Vivisimo has the Velocity Search Platform, which uses clustering technology to index and cull information from multiple repositories and data types. In a discovery role, the end users would be in the general counsel's office, not IT.