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Cambridge, Mass., June 3, 2003 - Endeca, the only provider of Guided Navigation and advanced search solutions, today announced ZiLOG, Inc. (OTCBB:ZILG), a worldwide designer, developer, manufacturer and supplier of microcontrollers for the semiconductor market, has chosen Endeca ProFind with Guided Navigation to enhance the findability of product and parts information. Endeca ProFind will not only provide ZiLOG users with unprecedented access to product family information, it will add the ability to drill down into documents to find and retrieve relevant content. By building a bridge between structured and unstructured data, ProFind will provide fully integrated access to enterprise information no matter where it resides while helping to reduce overall content management expense.
ZiLOG offers over 800 products that are manufactured and sold in a wide selection of configurations to more than 5000 original equipment manufacturers and end-users worldwide in the embedded control and communications markets. Given the huge amount of information available with these products and their diverse use, ZiLOG had a clear business need for an advanced search and navigation solution that allows users to easily, intuitively and quickly find the specific product or related information they need. Endeca ProFind will overcome the scale, performance and cost barriers traditionally associated with searching large amounts of structured and unstructured data and allow ZiLOG to present its product information to customers in a highly interactive and intuitive way.
"Our need to find a better way to expose the breadth and depth of our product information posed a challenge that we needed to meet head on using an innovative technology approach," said Sunny Azadeh, CIO, ZiLOG. "Endeca ProFind with Guided Navigation provides a user-friendly environment that makes it easy for us to present our products and services in a way that is meaningful and useful to our customers so they can make better, more informed decisions. It also accommodates the ongoing changes in our data which makes us more nimble and responsive to our customers' needs, improving our ability to expand our customer base and beat the competition."
Built on the award-winning 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.
"Endeca ProFind with Guided Navigation provides a faceted, multi-dimensional approach that allows users to find the information they are looking for in a more meaningful and relevant manner and is the ideal solution for a company with ZiLOG’s information delivery needs," said Steve Papa, CEO and founder, Endeca. "By unlocking the value of its product data and offering a more precise search, ZiLOG can now provide better service and be more responsive to users which will contribute significantly to improved overall satisfaction, better service and enhanced competitive differentiation."
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, Putnam Investments, 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.
About ZiLOG, Inc.
ZiLOG, designs, manufactures and markets microcontroller semiconductor devices. Headquartered in San Jose, California, ZiLOG maintains design centers in San Jose; Ft. Worth, Texas; Nampa, Idaho; Seattle, Wash.; and Bangalore, India, advanced wafer manufacturing in Nampa and test operations in Manila, Philippines. Visit us at our web site at www.zilog.com.
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