Cambridge, Mass., September 30, 2003 - Endeca, the only provider of Endeca Search and Guided Navigation solutions, today announced Version 4.0 of Endeca ProFind, the company's product for enterprise search solutions. With Version 4.0, business users now have enhanced ability to unlock the value of their enterprise data across the continuum of structured, semi-structured and unstructured corporate data. Enterprise customers using Endeca ProFind 4.0 will benefit from enhancements including expanded enterprise security and content integration, Asian language support, enhanced full-text search capabilities and a redesigned Developer Studio tool. Endeca ProFind 4.0 also offers a unique new innovation called Content Spotlighting that calls out relevant and related information in response to user queries.
Endeca ProFind is powered by the award winning technology of the Endeca Navigation Engine. This fully integrated search and navigation platform is differentiated from other search engines because of its unique ability to put "content in context" and help users find accurate and precise results with unprecedented speed. ProFind can be deployed rapidly across the entire continuum of enterprise data, both structured and unstructured, and handle enterprise content regardless of size, location and format.
"Endeca continues to innovate in the area of smarter access to actionable content," commented Hadley Reynolds, Director of Research at Delphi Group, Boston. "For both commercial Internet properties and internally-focused enterprise portals, Web strategists are pushing the envelope to find better tools than the search box for responding to the information needs of shoppers and knowledge workers. Endeca's focus on contextual navigation and its newer additions of features required for enterprise information intelligence are helping raise the bar for knowledge applications."
Endeca ProFind was designed with the needs of business workers in mind. With Version 4.0, Endeca ProFind has been enhanced in five key areas:
Endeca customer ZiLOG uses Endeca ProFind with Guided Navigation as a customer self-service tool to provide users with an environment in which they can make more informed business decisions. With integrated search and navigation of product documentation, support FAQs, external news feeds, and parts and devices databases, ZiLOG offers users enterprise-class search, navigation options of various depths and Content Spotlighting of highly related and relevant information.
"Our site is now a one-stop shop for design engineers and we want them to find what they need within just a couple of mouse clicks. The enhanced search and categorization capabilities provide customers with a much more intuitive and effective Web site experience," said Sunny Azadeh, CIO for ZiLOG. "The new functionality combined with a complete navigation overhaul and other site enhancements allows visitors to find exactly what they need from our large product portfolio, as well as the associated development tools and documentation."
Endeca ProFind has enjoyed both rapid market acceptance and critical industry analyst acclaim since its introduction one year ago. Computerworld just named Endeca ProFind a winner of its 2003 Innovative Technology Awards for excellence in customer results, while Forrester Research identified Endeca as an enterprise search platform leader in the latest Forrester Wave Report on Enterprise Search. Forrester segments the Enterprise Search market into three areas based on content use types, and cites Endeca as a leader in all three. Across all enterprise search categories, Endeca stood out for its overall strategy. The report also forecasts Endeca to be one of the future leaders in Enterprise Search.
"With Endeca ProFind 4.0, we have fine-tuned our ability to span the content continuum of enterprise information structure. This latest version expands Endeca's capabilities even further in the enterprise search space, and builds on our momentum as a strategic leader in the market," commented Jim Baum, president and COO for Endeca. "ProFind 4.0 is the result of extensive research and development into what companies and business users require to locate and access information across the enterprise regardless of location or format type. As a result, the new and enhanced features in Endeca ProFind 4.0 allow businesses to search, navigate, retrieve and use their data in ground-breaking ways."
Endeca solutions help businesses across a variety of sectors including retail, financial services, manufacturing, information providers and business-to-business with applications that address the information overload problems associated with enterprise information access and retrieval and content and catalog management.
About Endeca
Endeca offers innovative Endeca 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 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. This search and navigation technology can be applied across a wide-range of enterprise and customer applications including knowledge management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), customer self-service, analytics, catalogs, directories, and portal integration. Endeca is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner. For more information, visit www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com.