Cambridge, Mass., July 29, 2003 - Endeca, the only provider of Guided Navigation and advanced search solutions, today announced that Brady Corporation, a leading manufacturer and marketer of high-performance identification and safety products, has chosen Endeca ProFind with Guided Navigation for its multiple business sites. Brady Corporation selected Endeca technology for its ability to search and navigate across a broad set of structured data and unstructured text.
With catalog information in IBM WebSphere Commerce and product datasheets in Lotus Notes, Brady needed an enterprise search solution that would integrate with both platforms and allow users to easily search and navigate a variety of data and information regardless of format. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner, and the two companies have tightly integrated ProFind and WebSphere to ensure implementations that are streamlined and efficient. Endeca ProFind with Guided Navigation will be phased in across Brady’s online B2B properties.
Brady offers more than 50,000 industrial identification products. Its wares include high performance labels, wire markers and informational signs; safety and regulatory compliance solutions, including lockout/tagout products, safety signs and traffic control products; and precision die-cut components.
"As a world leader in safety, security and identification products, our customers rely on us for sound information, quality goods and superior service. It is essential that the technologies we use can integrate and bridge our various data sets," said Steve Hasbrook, Executive Director - Solutions Development for Brady Corporation. "Not only will Endeca ProFind integrate easily with both WebSphere and Lotus Notes, but Guided Navigation will highlight our most important products and related information so our customers can easily find what they are looking for and make better, more informed purchase decisions."
Endeca ProFind will take Brady's information retrieval requirements far beyond traditional B2B catalog search with its ability to leverage the power of Endeca's advanced search and Guided Navigation for access to vast repositories of unstructured product specification data combined with its ability to search and navigate existing product information in the company's extensive and diverse catalog. The end result will be a collection of sites that are information rich, user friendly and that guarantee customer success, while substantially lowering total cost of ownership for the integrated solution.
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 - leading to increased user efficiency. Endeca ProFind empowers users with the tools they need to find only relevant data from both structured and unstructured sources as well as discover information they may not have realized existed. Endeca ProFind creates the ultimate environment for search and navigation of all types of enterprise information leading to faster results, more informed users and better decision-making.
"The state of enterprise content is mandating the need for new technologies that allow search and navigation of all types of data regardless of format or location. Brady Corporation recognized this need in an effort to radically improve access to its various types of information," said Jim Baum, president and COO of Endeca. "Their solution featuring Endeca ProFind and Guided Navigation will take advantage of our ability to search and navigate across a broad set of both structured and unstructured data - enriching user experience, while delivering an integrated, efficient and cost-effective enterprise search solution to the customer."
Endeca's Guided Navigation and advanced search solutions help businesses across a variety of sectors including retail, financial services, manufacturing, information publishing 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 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. For more information, please visit www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com.
About Brady Corporation
Brady Corporation is an international manufacturer and marketer of identification and safety solutions, for telecommunication, electrical, electronic, manufacturing and other markets. It markets more than 50,000 products including high-performance labels, software, printing systems, label-application and data-collection systems, signs, precision die-cut materials and specialty tapes. Founded in 1914, Brady employs about 3,000 people and has operations in the United States, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Canada. It had sales of $517 million in fiscal year 2002.