CAMBRIDGE, Mass., August 23, 2005 -- Endeca, the leading provider of Guided Navigation®, Search and Analysis solutions, today announced that the Endeca ProFind™ search and navigation platform has been selected as a trend-setting product of 2005 by KMWorld magazine. The honor was bestowed upon Endeca's platform after a thorough review of more than 1200 knowledge management solutions from over 200 different vendors.
Used on Web sites, intranets, extranets, and across 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 relevant information. Endeca's patent-pending approach to information retrieval integrates the two most common means of finding information online -- searching and browsing -- to help people find documents, records, data, multimedia files and more based on their own determination of relevancy. In addition, Endeca ProFind's robust and easily managed Content Spotlighting capabilities promote relevant, contextual content based on defined rules, such as user profile or workgroup, search terms, navigation options, and time of day or day of the week. Used by market leaders and government organizations like Ace Hardware, Bank of America, HCR Manor Care, IBM, John Deere, The Library of Congress, The McClatchy Company, NASA, The National Cancer Institute, and several federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, Endeca ProFind gives organizations the powerful and intuitive tools to maximize the value of internal and external information, regardless of source, structure or file type.
"For years information access and retrieval has been equated with keyword search," said Hugh McKellar, editor-in-chief of KMWorld magazine. "By combining multiple, integrated discovery techniques, Endeca's approach and the Endeca ProFind platform represent a fundamental shift in how people explore and access information."
"When Endeca first introduced Endeca ProFind, search and browse were seen as two disparate functions, and information retrieval products were designed for either structured data or unstructured content," said Jim Baum, president and CEO of Endeca. "In contrast, the driving force behind Endeca ProFind was user experience -- recognizing how people behave when they look for information -- and the kinds of information most important to completing individual tasks, regardless of format, structure and physical location."
About Endeca
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, The Home
Depot, Wal-Mart); financial services (Bank of America, MFS
Investment Management, Putnam Investments); manufacturing and
distribution (IBM, Arrow Electronics, and John Deere); media and
publishing (World Book and IHS) and government (the Library of
Congress, NASA, and the National Cancer Institute). Endeca is a
private company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. More information:
www.endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
About KMWorld
The leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management
systems market, KMWorld (with a focus on Content, Document and
Knowledge Management) informs more than 51,000 subscribers about
the components and processes -- and subsequent success stories --
that together offer solutions for improving business
performance.
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