CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 11, 2005 -- Endeca, the leading provider of Guided Navigation®, Search and Analysis solutions announced today that the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, has selected and deployed the Endeca ProFindä search and navigation platform on its award-winning Web site, Cancer.gov (www.cancer.gov). Using the new search engine, Cancer.gov users can more quickly and easily access the largest and most comprehensive collection of research-based information on cancer types, treatment, prevention, and clinical trials, as well as research and funding information, from across all of NCI's Web sites.
NCI is the federal government's principal agency for cancer research. Cancer.gov is a primary vehicle for disseminating this information to NCI's broad range of constituents - cancer patients, their families, physicians, and researchers. And the search tool is an essential adjunct to Cancer.gov's award-winning site design and navigation aids. Recipient of the coveted 2004 FREDDIE Award (the International Health and Medical Media Awards) for best Web site, Cancer.gov provides immediate access to information and resources on cancer and helps people with cancer become better informed about their disease so they may more actively participate in their treatment and care.
Endeca ProFind was selected after a thorough review of technologies from a number of leading vendors, and it replaced a legacy commercial search solution. The implementation of Endeca's search capabilities on Cancer.gov will follow a phased approach. The initial phase was deployed within two weeks of the conclusion of the selection process and provides accurate search services to the site's users. To ensure that Cancer.gov visitors have access to all relevant information, the new search engine indexes thousands of documents on the site plus highly relevant content culled from among tens of thousands of documents on NCI's other cancer-related Web sites. In the months to come, the software's versatile capabilities will be deployed to offer users advanced, state-of-the-art search functionality to provide enhanced access to NCI's online resources. The software will also be used to build search capability for other online NCI products.
Used on Web sites, intranets, extranets, and within corporate enterprises, Endeca ProFind is a next-generation information retrieval platform that combines highly advanced search with Guided Navigation and Content Spotlighting capabilities to help people quickly and easily find the information most relevant to their unique needs. Endeca’s approach to information retrieval mimics the human discovery process by integrating the two most common means of finding information online — searching and browsing — allowing people to continually adapt and hone their search based on their own determination of relevancy. Endeca ProFind’s robust and easily managed Content Spotlighting capabilities promote relevant content based on defined rules, such as user profile or workgroup, search terms, navigation options, and time of day or day of the week. This combination gives organizations the powerful and intuitive tools to maximize the value of internal and external information, regardless of source, structure or file type.
"The challenge of search, given the breadth of content on Cancer.gov, the different audiences and their varying degrees of online proficiency, is that it needs to be intuitive, flexible, and accurate — for all users," said Jim Baum, president and CEO of Endeca. "While Endeca ProFind has been proven to meet this type of challenge, the significance of this specific application is unparalleled. We’re honored to be playing such a critical role in helping to make this information more accessible and usable to those who need it most."
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power dozens of critical public-facing and internal applications
for government agencies like the National Cancer Institute, NASA,
the Library of Congress, the Canadian Department of Defence, the
Ontario Cancer Research Network, and several Federal law
enforcement and intelligence agencies. In late 2003, In-Q-Tel, a
private, independent, not-for-profit venture group funded by the
Central Intelligence Agency, signed a significant strategic
investment and development deal with Endeca to create cutting-edge
information retrieval applications that serve United States
national security needs. Endeca Government Solutions help
public-sector organizations and intelligence and law enforcement
agencies to integrate, discover, navigate, and analyze data to
solve the problems associated with information overload.
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Endeca’s award-winning Guided Navigation, Enterprise Search, and
Analysis solutions help organizations integrate, discover, and
navigate enterprise data to solve business problems associated with
information overload. Endeca’s customers include a wide range of
enterprises, including retailers (Barnes & Noble, Circuit City,
CompUSA, PETCO, Wal-Mart); financial services (Bank of America, MFS
Investment Management, Putnam Investments); manufacturing and
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publishing (World Book and IHS) and government (the Library of
Congress, NASA, and the National Cancer Institute). Endeca is a
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