Introducing SEARCH'97
A New Personal and Enterprise Application
by Philippe Courtot
CEO, Verity, Inc.

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CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH INFORMATION

SEARCH'97 from Verity provides just such a solution.

With the introduction of SEARCH'97, Verity has elevated the concept of search from a simple, rudimentary tool to a robust enterprise-wide application. Powerful enough to locate a single document across hundreds of corporate sites, yet simple enough to help a novice user locate a letter on his PC.

SEARCH'97 has been designed as a search application which will allow corporations as well as individuals to effectively "push" and "pull" information based on individual information needs. SEARCH'97 is an application which can immediately catalog, organize and publish any information according to specific profile of interest, regardless of its source. SEARCH'97 will connect people with the information they need quickly and easily, enhancing productivity and performance [...] [by] providing easy-to-use yet highly intelligent search components which:

• Allow users to intuitively move through information
• Dramatically increase the accuracy of searches
• Enable the automatic personalization and delivery of information
• Provide the ability to customize search applications to meet specific corporate needs

SEARCH'97 is a foundation for evolving search capabilities far beyond today's macro or document-based concepts.

Through SEARCH'97's unique architecture and functionality, individuals and organizations alike will soon be able to mine their "corporate memory" at a discrete micro level, intelligently searching for content-based relationships and unique associations within the information. SEARCH'97 sets the stage to enable users to intelligently ask for known and unknown information, to become the means for corporations to differentiate themselves in today's competitive marketplace.

SEARCH REACHES A NEW LEVEL

SEARCH'97 is more than a collection of search functionality. It is a powerful and flexible platform for deploying search applications across the enterprise. It is the industry's first search application platform, providing the necessary infrastructure and components to create powerful information retrieval systems. Advanced, intelligent search components can be flexibly combined and brought into play to extend SEARCH'97's core functionality, based on the specific requirements of the corporation or individual. All search application functionality is made available to users via a single user interface.

The SEARCH'97 applications framework is designed to enable corporations to easily develop and deploy information retrieval applications which can be transparently integrated into the SEARCH'97 platform. This plug-and-play design allows additional functions and components to be added at any time.

Because all SEARCH'97 applications are integrated within the same framework, the SEARCH'97 architecture can be enhanced and extended as applications and installations evolve. New intelligent search modules can be developed by Verity, third parties or corporate developers, and transparently integrated within SEARCH'97's architecture to extend the application functionality based on specific requirements. [...]

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