WESTMINSTER, Colo., and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- August 15, 2007 -- Silver Creek Systems, a pioneer and leader in enterprise product data integration solutions, and Endeca Technologies, Inc., an enterprise information access software company, today announced the immediate availability of DataLens™ Foundry for Endeca, a new software module for the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP) that automatically extracts and standardizes all product data characteristics from one or multiple sources for use in information-access applications. The companies also announced a new reseller agreement that will give Endeca the ability to sell the DataLens Foundry directly to new and existing customers. The DataLens Foundry is available immediately for Endeca customers and prospects.
Aimed at retailers, manufacturers, distributors, and other enterprises that deal with large quantities of heterogeneous product information, the DataLens Foundry for Endeca module is designed to work with product catalogs, product information management (PIM) systems, master data management (MDM) systems, and other product-data repositories. Utilizing Silver Creek's DataLens System, the module extracts and normalizes attributes and characteristics from product data and feeds them directly into the Endeca IAP, where they can be used to optimize Endeca's signature Guided Navigation® experience. This is especially important in business-to-business eCommerce, eProcurement, online retail, and supply chain visibility applications where successful discovery of products -- by functional requirements, characteristics, and specifications -- has a direct impact on revenue, costs and profit margin.
"By teaming up with best-of-breed partners like Silver Creek, we can continue to focus our research and development on our core assets while simultaneously addressing specialized data-management challenges facing retail, manufacturing, and distribution enterprises," said John Andrews, director of applications marketing for Endeca. "It's a winning strategy for accelerating innovation and ensuring that our clients can quickly take advantage of the very best technology solutions on the market."
Martin Boyd, VP of marketing for Silver Creek Systems, adds, "Our DataLens System changes the economics of standardizing product data for search or any other data-integration task. Integrating it directly into the Endeca platform to combine great data with great information access is a powerful solution that is unique in the market. We already have customers using our combined solutions and the value for customers is clear."
The DataLens Foundry for Endeca module delivers automated data cleansing and standardization, removing the significant time, manual effort, and resources traditionally used to clean "dirty data." Its patented semantic technology standardizes and normalizes such items as terms/spelling, abbreviations, units of measure, color shades, unique and range values, and defaults for missing values, enabling users to find products more easily.
About Silver Creek Systems
Silver Creek Systems is a leader in Product Data Integration solutions that change the economics of sharing and integrating product data throughout the Information Supply Chains that connect enterprise systems, customers, suppliers, partners and more. Despite enormous investments in IT infrastructure, data is still a serious issue -- 80 percent of companies are not confident in the quality of their product data, and 73 percent find it difficult or impractical to standardize their product data. The results are broken links in the Information Supply Chain. The DataLens" System uses patented semantic technology to overcome the limitations of traditional data integration technologies and deliver complete, correct and consistent data from any source -- increasing the value and usability of product data for eCommerce, PIM, MDM, data synchronization, SOA and any other form of Product Data Integration. For more information, visit www.silvercreeksystems.com.
About Endeca
Endeca is a next-generation information access company, uniting the ease of search with the analytical power of business intelligence. Combining patented intellectual property, breakthrough science and a deep focus on user experience, the Endeca Information Access Platform helps people find, analyze and understand information in ways never before possible. Leading global organizations like ABN AMRO, Bank of America, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, Dice, The (US) Defense Intelligence Agency, The Home Depot, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, The Library of Congress, Nike, and Walmart.com rely on Endeca to power business-critical applications that increase revenue, reduce costs and streamline operations.
Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, USA, Endeca is a private company with worldwide operations. For more information: www.endeca.com or info@endeca.com.