Cambridge, Mass., April 1, 2003 Endeca, the only provider of Guided Navigation with advanced search solutions, today announced that Peter Bell, co-founder and product marketing manager for Endeca, will present, "Integrating Navigation with Search: Scalable Faceted Navigation," at The Eighth Search Engine Meeting on April 8, 2003. Held from April 7 - 8 at the Hilton Boston Logan Airport in Boston, MA, The Search Engine Meeting, organized by Infonortics, will bring together commercial search engine developers, academics and corporate professionals to learn from each other.
Bell will discuss the information science behind Endeca's popular Guided Navigation solutions and talk about the engineering challenges the Endeca team overcame to make it a reality. Building on strong usability study results on faceted metadata navigation presented at last year’s conference by Prof. Marti Hearst of UC Berkeley’s School of Information Management and Systems, and on the commercial success of Endeca’s Guided Navigation deployments, Bell will talk about why it has been so valuable to bridge structured and unstructured information. And paired to the success of this new way to find information is the fascinating engineering story of how Endeca grew its backend for search and navigation from several thousand records in 1999 to nearly a billion today.
Endeca's Guided Navigation with advanced search solutions help businesses across a variety of sectors like retail, financial services and business-to-business with applications that address the information overload problems associated with content, catalog and enterprise information access and retrieval. Endeca solutions are built on innovative technology that makes it possible for the first time to offer Guided Navigation and advanced search on structured and unstructured information with high performance, and low total cost of ownership, even at massive scale.
About The Search Engine Meeting
The Search Engine Meeting is currently the eighth in a series that began in 1996. The meetings, organized by Infonortics Ltd, aim to bridge the gap between search engine technology, information systems, and information retrieval. The meetings last two days and feature around 20 speakers in the search engine area.
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, Putnam 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 www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com.