Cambridge, Mass., March 11, 2003 Endeca, the only provider of Guided Navigation with advanced search solutions, today announced that World Book Inc, renowned as the standard for providing accuracy, objectivity, and reliability in reference materials for schools, libraries, and homes worldwide, has selected Endeca ProFind for improved search and browse functionality in their World Book Online services. The proven ease-of-use of Endeca’s enterprise search solution, Endeca ProFind, was the critical factor in the vendor’s selection process.
Using Guided Navigation available only from Endeca, World Book will be able to present its award winning content to users in new, compelling ways. Users will more quickly find the information they desire as well as be encouraged to explore and learn more. In this manner, Endeca ProFind will enhance the value of World Book’s content.
"We were extremely impressed with the speed and ease of use that Endeca will be able to offer our users," said Tim Hardy, CTO of World Book. "In addition, ProFind’s scalability and flexibility will let us easily update and add new information to our database of materials with little effort."
Built on the patent-pending Endeca Navigation Engine, Endeca ProFind enables users to easily navigate through enterprise data to find the precise document or piece of information they need - quickly and efficiently - leading to increased user productivity. Endeca ProFind empowers users with the tools they need to find only relevant data as well as discover information they may not have realized existed. Endeca ProFind with Guided Navigation and best-of-breed search technology also shields users from dead-ends and will never return endless lists of irrelevant results.
"World Book is widely recognized as a leader in providing comprehensive information to teachers, researchers and students," said Steve Papa, CEO and founder of Endeca. "Our enterprise search solution perfectly matches World Book’s needs to help users easily find the right information while, at the same time, making it simple for World Book to augment its data."
Endeca ProFind eclipses conventional "query and response" approaches to enterprise search, which place the burden on users to be familiar with the data set, have an idea of what to look for and how to describe the item, and finally to structure a query in a way the system will understand. In contrast, Endeca ProFind with Guided Navigation provides an intuitive interaction model that eliminates all irrelevant information, and dynamically guides users with only relevant and valid choices.
About Endeca
Endeca offers innovative advanced search and Guided Navigation information delivery solutions for companies who need to integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve the business problems associated with information overload. Endeca technology is already at work for leading retail, financial services and business-to-business companies like Barnes & Noble, Fidelity Investments, Eddie Bauer, and Arrow Electronics. Endeca solutions empower users to explore and discover relevant relationships in data and find accurate and precise results with unprecedented speed. Patent-pending algorithms provide a scalable, Web-based infrastructure for data exploration, leading to highly relevant and meaningful search results every time. This technology can be applied across a wide-range of enterprise and customer applications including Customer Relationship Management (CRM) analytics, catalogs, directories, search and portal integration. Endeca is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, MA and is backed by leading venture capital firms including Ampersand Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Venrock Associates. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner and is a preferred provider of IBM’s WebSphere Commerce Group. For more information, please visit http://www.endeca.com/ or email us at info@endeca.com.
About World Book
Since 1917, World Book, Inc., has set the standard for accuracy, objectivity, and reliability in reference materials for both children and adults. Based in Chicago, Illinois, World Book is an industry leader in the publication of award-winning reference resources, learning materials, and multimedia products for homes, schools, and libraries. For over eighty years, World Book has been committed to publishing reference and learning materials that meet the highest standards of editorial excellence while keeping pace with the technological developments that define the computer age. To learn more about World Book's products and services please visit www.worldbook.com. To learn more about World Book Online services please visit www.worldbookonline.com.