Sponsors & Partners

Raytion is an internationally operating IT business consultancy focused on enterprise search and information retrieval. As one of the leading full-service enterprise search specialists Raytion supports the complete life cycle of search solutions and projects. Since 2001, Raytion has been implementing and delivering high quality, large-scale enterprise search solutions to its clients at Global 500 companies and organizations worldwide. As a long term partner of the leading search technology vendors, Raytion offers a broad spectrum of products and services that complement their products and allows for the cost-effective implementation of search solutions that can be easily adapted to changes and future requirements.

Concept Searching was founded in 2002 with the goal of developing statistical search and classification products that delivered critical functionality currently unavailable in the marketplace at that time. Following this aim they now have many customers using their taxonomy management, auto classification technology and search enhancements.

Findwise is a vendor independent Findability and search technology expert. We have expertise in market leading search platforms as well as open source search technology. Findwise creates Findability solutions, utilising the full potential of search technology to assist our customers in making all desired information easily accessible to both employees and their customers. Our Findability solutions take a holistic approach to the challenge of creating business value from internal and external informationassets. With experience from hundreds of Findability solutions and a large customer base, our experts customize, based on open source components, Findability solutions, using market leading search platforms or Apache Solr as a base.

IntraFind is a specialist in enterprise search and text mining of unstructured and structured data, providing software products and solutions based on Lucene and Solr.
The enterprise search product iFinder enables high-performance and scalable search and can be enhanced by modules for linguistics, similarity search, semantic search, thesaurus- or taxonomy-based search, entity recognition, text clustering, text classification and knowledge maps.

Smartlogic is a software company that specializes in Content Intelligence. Smartlogic's Semaphore is a Content Intelligence Platform which complements an organization’s investments in Enterprise Search, Business Intelligence and Content Management to provide effective, rapid and accurate control of, and access to, unstructured content with a speed, accuracy and intelligence not achievable today through existing systems that are strained from soaring information volumes. Semaphore endows these systems with capabilities, such as taxonomy & ontology management, automatic classification and contextual navigation, so that organizations can better find, organize, process, monetize, control and govern unstructured content.

Comperio is a search solutions company. Founded in 2004 and spun-out of FAST Search & Transfer as a specialist consulting company, Comperio quickly grew into a leading player within the global search solutions marketplace. The company was founded with a vision of utilizing search technology to improve the way people interact with information, ensuring that the solutions understand people and context, rather than the other way round.

In July 2011, Comperio were recognized as 2011 Microsoft Search Partner of the Year, for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft’s FAST Search technology.

Founded in 2000 by search engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of information access software for the enterprise and the Web. More than 300 companies worldwide and 100 million unique users a month rely on Exalead's CloudView platform to search, discover, and manage their information assets, including the Sanger Institute, Jaspersoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sanofi-Aventis, Gefco, PSA Peugeot Citroën, ViaMichelin, AFP, CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation), Yellow Pages Group and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Today, Exalead is leading the Search Based Application (SBA) revolution, bringing new structure, meaning and accessibility to data across the heterogeneous enterprise information cloud and doing so with stunning ease and a low TCO. Exalead works closely on SBA development with partners including Capgemini, Sogeti, Logica, Keyrus, ST Groupe and Business & Decision.  

Exalead was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in June 2010. Exalead has offices in Paris, San Francisco, Glasgow, London, Amsterdam, Milan and Frankfurt.

Funnelback is a global search engine technology and services company which delivers leading edge information retrieval solutions coupled with quality customer support. The core products offered by Funnelback are Enterprise Search for search across multiple repositories, and Website Search for fast and effective searching of web-based content.

Search engine giants use Basis Technology's industry-leading natural language processing software to increase search accuracy in over 40 languages. Our Rosette® Linguistics powers search, business intelligence, e-discovery, text mining, and other applications. We provide linguistic technology to customers worldwide including Amazon.com, EMC, Endeca, Exalead/Dassault, Google, Microsoft/Bing, Yahoo!, and many governments.

Coveo is a leading provider of Information Access and Enterprise Search solutions. From the smallest start-ups to the largest global corporations, Coveo can glue together all relevant indexes of intranets, Email servers, CRM and enterprise systems, databases, web content and even multimedia voice content. Coveo helps empower business managers with the information they need to drive higher results by instantly unleashing the value of existing data trapped into their varied databases and converting it into a powerful and unified information dashboard.

Search Technologies is the world’s largest independent provider of search engine expertise, consulting and implementation services.

Our technical team of more than 90 dedicated industry experts helps customers gain a business advantage through the use of search engines. We have a highly experienced leadership team that has been designing, implementing and managing search projects for two decades.

We maintain expertise in a range of leading search products including Microsoft FAST and SharePoint, the Google Search Appliance, Amazon CloudSearch, Autonomy, Attivio, Exalead, LucidWorks, Vivisimo, Endeca, Sinequa and open source alternatives such as Solr / Lucene.

No matter the extent of your search implementation challenges, we have the people, processes and expertise to deliver results.

 

Sinequa Business Search helps the employees of large Enterprises and Administrations find analyze and understand information within vast amounts of data from structured applications, unstructured information and people related data. By connecting to more than 100 enterprise applications, Sinequa Business Search creates a Unified Information Platform that can be used to deliver innovative applications (Search Based Application). Sinequa Business Search can be used for several usages such as: 360° views, expertise localization, extended BI or infrastructure optimization.

More than 250 of the world's largest and most information-intensive organizations rely on Sinequa to put business critical information at the fingertips of their employees, including Credit Agricole, Siemens, EADS, Mercer and Atos.

The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. Its aims include supporting communication between researchers and practitioners, promoting the use of IR methods in industry and raising public awareness. There is a quarterly newsletter (The Informer), an annual European Conference (ECIR), and regular organisation and sponsorship of conferences, workshops and seminars.

ECM Plus – The Voice of Content, Collaboration & The Cloud - enterprise content management. At ecmplus.com, we’re proud to be first to your desk with the latest news and developments in content and business information, and provide you with insight into the current, hot topics and issues in the wider ECM space, plus thought leaders and leading-edge value-added information to help grow your business. www.ecmplus.com

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