Press
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Tera adopts exalead as Tark and GN3 Search Engine
Milan, Italy, Feb 12, 2008 – Tera Digital Publishing, a leading supplier of newspaper publishing systems, has announced that it will be adopting the advanced exalead one:enterprise 4.6 search engine as the underlying search technology for its GN3 editorial system and TARK archive.
exalead one:enterprise is a sophisticated multi-media search engine born out of a European research and development program supported by the French Agency For Industrial Innovation that had the goal of developing multimedia and multilingual indexing and management tools for industry and the general public.
exalead one: enterprise’s unique interface provides thumbnail previews of target pages along with the results, and allows advanced refining on the results page (language, geographic location, file type, categories) but also gives access to data such as rich content (audio, video, RSS), and related terms.
Importantly, the exalead one:enterprise engine integrates research functions in one piece of software, combining internet, desktop and enterprise functionality, which Tera saw as giving its fast-paced newspaper customers a ‘one-stop’ interface for finding information quickly and easily.
In a unique advance exalead one:enterprise allows users to browse by a special ‘Search By Serendipity™’ navigation system.
The well-regarded independent Butler Report, reviewing exalead one, said this patented special feature “enables users to search in the same way that they think.”
“Each search query results in a table of contents being generated by recording the information’s structure. Users are then able to refine their search by clicking on hyperlinked categories and related topics, or by location, author, or format. Irrelevant terms in topics can be easily excluded from the search. A perpetual problem encountered in searches is that the words used in the original query are often not contained within the document that is being searched for. This problem is overcome in exalead one search by providing the user with related terms and categories to allow the search to be broadened, refined, or even re-focused,” the report concluded.
TeraDP will migrate to the exalead one:enterprise 4.6 OEM Edition. ”We chose exalead because its outstanding feature set and solution architecture would enhance our product offering and benefit both our installed base and future customers. During our migration to exalead, their highly-professional team has provided us with a straight-forward, cost-effective migration path to exalead one:enterprise OEM Edition,” said Michele Mottini, CEO, TeraDP. “In the time-critical newspaper industry it is crucial that Tera customers have a seamless switch to ensure their business continuity. We could not have asked for more from any other Tier 1 search vendor.”
About Exalead: Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of search software for businesses and the Web. Based on the first and only unified search technology platform, Exalead’s products provide users with a single access point to information, regardless of format or location. Its patented Search by Serendipity navigation system adapts to user habits, providing a uniquely satisfying search experience. The exalead one:search™ line of software products is used by leading banking and financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, research, retailing and telecommunications companies around the world. Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company, with offices in Paris, New York, San Francisco, Glasgow, Milan and Munich. For more information, please visit http://corporate.exalead.com.
About Tera: Tera DP is a worldwide manufacturer of media-neutral editorial, web, content management, pre-press and archiving solutions for newspaper and magazine publishing. With more than 300 installations worldwide, Tera is a recognized world leader in newspaper publishing technology.
Dominant in many world markets, Tera is best known for the quality of our engineering, the ease-of-use of our products and their very low cost of ownership.
Tera’s product line includes multi-media editorial, archiving, advertising and prepress solutions. All Tera products deliver the highest performance, maximum reliability and low operating costs. Tera solutions are installed quickly, and easily, with the smallest impact on the organization.
In terms of titles, Tera is the dominant vendor in the UK. In the US, Tera systems are used to publish over 100 titles and are the dominant vendor for Spanish-language newspapers. Tera is also the dominant vendor in Brazil, Italy and Croatia.