We're Vivisimo and we do search right. Skeptical? We understand—we know it's a bold claim. Let us explain to you what we mean when we say this. When we're done, you can decide if you agree.

It all starts with the user experience

Every day, thousands of searches are performed on Vivisimo's solutions. In observing the search behavior of so many end-users, we've learned a little secret. It turns out that whether a person is at home or at work, they expect their search tools to not only find what they are looking for quickly, but to be intuitive and user-friendly, too—traits not often found in software designed specifically for the enterprise, including search.

Our search interface is simple, uncluttered and easy to use. But even better are our search results. Instead of returning just the first ten results of umpteen thousand on the search results page, we organize search results by using creative visualization techniques to give you the big picture for a faster, but more thorough, exploration of search results. Simple, yet powerful controls put you in command of your own search experience. In one quick glance, you can see the entire range of search results organized for easy drill-down and navigation. You can quickly weed out irrelevant information and uncover relationships that you would never have found by using a traditional search engine.

But user experience only gets you so far

Here at Vivisimo, we respect the uniqueness of your particular business and the investments you've already made in knowledge management solutions. We trust you to know the details of your business best and you can trust us to deliver a solution configured to deliver the real business results that you are looking for, such as: increasing sales, streamlining business processes, improving productivity or raising customer satisfaction levels.

So, instead of drop-shipping our solution to you with a manual and hoping for the best, we prefer to sit down with you first and learn a little about your business. We'll ask lots of questions. For instance, what types of people or groups will use the search solution and why? What kind of content does each group need access to? Where does the content reside or come from? Is your content unstructured (documents, PDFs, web pages, etc.) or structured (content management system, database records, etc.)? Do you have any "high value" content that you need to ensure people will see in the search results? Do you have any taxonomies or ontologies that need to be incorporated? Are there existing applications that have their own search engines that we need to leverage or do we need to index those applications too?

Once we have the answers to those sorts of questions, we can work with you to configure and deploy a search solution that is just right for your business and your users. Don't worry, though. We won't stick around forever—just long enough to make sure your solution is a success.

Deployed now, not next year

We understand that if you are looking for a search solution, it is because you have a business problem you need solved now, not next year. Fortunately, Vivisimo's enterprise solution, Velocity, can be up and running anywhere from days to weeks, depending upon the requirements of your organization.

How do we do this? First, we don't require you to change any of your content to work with our search solution. No matter what shape your content is in—we can find it and index it—fast. Second, we don't require you to build a taxonomy in order to get useful search results. If you have one already, great, but if not, we can extract metadata and meaning from all of your content automatically. We can even put metadata and associated content from different systems back together in the search index. Finally, our solution was built on the latest-generation of service-oriented architecture technologies, which makes installation and integration much easier and faster than in legacy search solutions—we promise.

The right stuff

None of this would matter if we didn't have the right stuff—the latest and greatest in search technology. But we do. Velocity is now one of the very few enterprise search solutions that can crawl and index all of your content (including metadata) plus federate the results from all of your search engines within existing applications. The combined search results from indexing and federating are then displayed visually in a way that makes sense to users and helps them easily find the information they need.

All of this is managed from a web-based administrative interface that gives you and your company enormous flexibility. You control what content is indexed and how it is weighted. You determine if existing search engines need to be federated. You select what types of third party feeds need to be added. You decide what content is both applicable and permitted for a given group of users—down to a within-the-document level. Last but not least, if application integration is necessary, you choose how it is done.

So there you have it. A search company that combines the innovation and simplicity of a consumer search engine interface with the power, flexibility and control that enterprises require. Intuitive, easy-to-use search solutions from a company that cares about helping you achieve real business results today, not tomorrow.

Vivisimo's solutions can be broadly adopted across industries. We invite you to learn more about how Vivisimo offerings might benefit your company:

• Vivisimo Enterprise Solutions
• Vivisimo Government Solutions

Learn more about the Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform .