Infolution rolls out intelligent search portal

Infolution will offer partnerships with enterprise software vendors, integrators and web developers, with partners able to trial Infolution software risk-free. The company's hybrid technology combines traditional search methods with emerging semantic technologies to create a network engine that understands the context of a user query.

The software searches across multiple unstructured databases to create a single knowledge domain that can be queried via a single point of access, meaning businesses can search their databases, intranets, extranets, emails, blogs, notice boards and the internet for information.

Features include: concept visualisation, automatic (dynamic) taxonomy creation, automatic clustering of search results, virtual summaries of information within clusters and within individual sources, over 50 supported languages and a variety of information management/knowledge sharing features. The technology is XML-based and exposed as a web service, allowing for easy integration.

Infolution founder and CEO, Henk Alles said: "Most vendors and integrators still focus on better storage rather than better search and retrieval. Search technologies are still very immature, and with the current approach, we seem to be drowning in data. But increasing data values are a fact of life."

Alles continued: "We are not suffering from data overload. Rather we're suffering from technology underload. Better, more intelligent search is needed; search that understands the meaning of text and behaves like a human does. And people don't want to have to pay six figure sums or spend weeks integrating to get it."

Dutch-based Infolution was founded in 2001 and currently operates in the Netherlands, UK, Germany and theUSA , while customers include Intel, US Homeland Security, Pfizer, ABN AMRO, Tiscali and the Dutch Police Force.

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