Infolution Intelligent Search and Retrieval - UK OEM Launch September 2004

Search and retrieval specialist Infolution today announced that it will launch its Intelligent Search Portal to UK OEMs in September 2004. The move comes in response to increasing user dismay with existing corporate search technologies and consumer search engines. As Infolution Founder and CEO, Henk Alles, says:

Most vendors and integrators still focus on better storage rather than better search and retrieval. Search technologies are still very immature, and with the current approach, we seem to be drowning in data. But increasing data volumes are a fact of life. My view is that we are not suffering from data overload. Rather weíre suffering from technology underload. Better, more intelligent search is needed; search that understands the meaning of text and behaves like a human does. And people donít want to have to pay six figure sums or spend weeks integrating to get it. Thatís where Infolution can help.î

Adopting an OEM strategy, Infolution will offer easy-to-integrate next generation search at commodity prices. Partnerships will be offered to enterprise software vendors, integrators and web developers. Partners will be able to trial Infolution software risk-free. Thereafter they can quickly and affordably offer Infolution search within their products and solutions, giving them significant competitive advantage whilst allowing them to focus on their customers and their core development.

Infolutionís hybrid technology combines traditional search methods with emerging semantic technologies to create a network engine that understands the context of a user query. It also mimics human interaction: ask it about Jaguars and it immediately asks you whether you meant cars, aircraft, baseball teams, big cats or the USS Enterpriseís sister spaceship. From here on searching is click-based - it then asks you exactly what you want to know about Jaguar cars: the carís history, reliability issues and body rust, why British Prime Ministers are driven in one, or the latest news on the Le Mans team? By expanding and then narrowing the query users can, within a few mouse-clicks, arrive at the exact piece of knowledge they seek. They can discover things they didnít know existed rather than simply retrieve a document that may or may not hold the answer.

Infolution searches across multiple unstructured databases to create a single knowledge domain that can be queried via a single point of access. This means businesses can search their databases, intranets, extranets, emails, blogs, notice boards and the Internet for information. It doesnít matter where users store their data, Infolution will find it. Features include: concept visualization, automatic (dynamic) taxonomy creation, automatic clustering of search results, virtual summaries of information within clusters and within individual sources, over 50 supported languages and a variety of information management / knowledge sharing features. The technology is XML based and is exposed as a web service, making integration as easy as possible.