Lava Systems Africa, an affinity partner of Canadian-based Open Text Corporation, today announced that the latter had introduced a new version of Livelink Discovery Server, a powerful search engine product designed for companies that publish large quantities of customised information, such as lengthy retail or parts catalogues, news and information archives, technical standards documentation or patent data.
Livelink Discovery Server Version 9.0 lets customers create customised applications to manage large-scale information retrieval challenges, helping to dramatically speed searches and improve productivity. The product offers a wide range of state-of-the-art search technology, including natural language queries, search federation, text analysis, concept mining, result clustering and categorisation.
Livelink Discovery Server provides the flexibility to add new search features, so customers can meet expanding requirements and offer users new tools beyond the standard ranked list of documents in response to a search query. It can also be extended to include searches of Web-based content sources such as intranets, extranets and public Web sites.
"Finding information easily in a large organisation is always a challenge, but for some organisations, the volume and complexity of the information they maintain makes it especially difficult," commented David Schubmehl, Vice-President of Discovery Products at Open Text. "We`ve designed Version 9.0 of Livelink Discovery Server to meet the toughest information retrieval challenges customers could face. We`ve also built in flexibility, so the product is easy to deploy and tailor to address specialised needs."
Livelink Discovery Server integrates with other applications, such as office automation, document image processing and e-mail, and operates with equal functionality across a wide range of platforms. Development tools for Livelink Discovery Server allow customers to create custom desktop and server applications for client/server environments, making it easy to integrate with established business processes. The product can also be scaled to support simultaneous searches from an unlimited number of databases.
Key features of Livelink Discovery Server include:
* Support for a wide range of formats, including fielded, full-text and uniquely-structured information found in bibliographic and copyright materials, information services, books, business directories, operations manuals and technical documents. The product also works with more than 60 word processing formats, so that documents can be moved back and forth between Livelink Discovery Server and their original formats.
* Tools to aid in searching and filtering information, including natural language queries, document relevance ranking, and document summarisation. Natural language queries can be submitted as full sentences, phrases or boolean statements.
* Dynamic clustering of results, concept mining and extraction, and automatic categorization of information based on pre-defined or user-created taxonomies. These features offer users unprecedented capabilities to organise and analyse the unstructured information in their organisation.
* An attractive Java-based interface, so users can easily find and analyse information. Also included are Web and file crawling capabilities to streamline index set-up and creation, and Quick-Start menus to simplify administration.
* Real-time updating of information, so that users can search and analyse information while data is being added.
* Sophisticated features for tracking user activities, generating valuable information for analysis and billing. Broad accounting capabilities enable the tracking and monitoring of both individual users and groups of users. The product also provides document locking and security features to protect critical information.
Livelink Discovery Server works with Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP as well as Solaris systems.
For further information, please contact Iain McMurray, Lava Systems Africa: telephone (011) 675 3704, fax (011) 675 1021, e-mail ianm@lavasystems.co.za.
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Open Text is the market leader in providing enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organisations. Since launching the world`s first Internet search engine and the first Web-based enterprise collaboration and knowledge management software, Open Text continued its leadership in providing global enterprises with innovative and effective solutions. Throughout its history Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth. Today, the Canadian based company supports 15 million seats across deployments in 31 countries and 12 languages worldwide and includes amongst its client base the governments of Australia, Canada and Japan; the UK Metropolitan Police; the United Nations and the USA Department of Defence.
Open Text`s flagship product, Livelink seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, helping organisations transform information into knowledge in order to provide the foundation for innovation, compliance and accelerated growth. Open Text acquired Germany`s Ixos Software AG in February this year to become the largest ECM software vendor in Europe and the largest pure-play ECM software vendor in the world, according to Bradley West, an analyst with Southwest Securities Inc.
Lava Systems
The Lava Systems Africa (Pty) Ltd team originated in the late 1990s with the objective of becoming a premier supplier of enterprise systems based around knowledge management, document management, records management, image management, scanning and workflow solutions.
The emerging demands that were identified included government process re-engineering, supply chain co-ordination, customer relationship management, e-government and B2B processing. In support of these business aims, the technology platforms chosen had to enjoy a proven global track record and adhere to open Internet architecture standards and developments.
Lava Systems Africa is now a South African-based BEE company dedicated to the sales, marketing, support and consultancy based around the Livelink product from Open Text, a product that the staff have been involved with since 1998. Lava Systems Africa user base embraces customers from both the private and public sector and includes organisations such as Bateman Projects Limited, Alexander Forbes, the Gauteng Provincial Government and the National Social Security Fund of Uganda.
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