The company said the new features included in Isys 8 suite extend beyond standard search and retrieval to more powerful navigation and discovery capabilities.
The suite is broken into three pieces: Desktop, Web, and an SDK. Key new additions in version 8 include support for text mining and expertise location via automatic entity extraction to better understand the context of results and their associations with search terms and content.
The software has also been upgraded to support business rules tuning and controls like Best Bets that allow administrators to make sure that a specific document appears at the top of a results list for a given query.
Other features include out-ofthe box support for Microsoft’s Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server, enhanced index management, a revamped desktop interface, support for new document formats, and the introduction of tools that analyze search behavior and provide suggestions for modification and fine tuning.
The scalability and performance of Isys’ core search engine has been bumped up through caching, scripting, and federated querying across remote indices. According to officials at the Denver, Colorado-based company, the enhanced software offers indexing speeds of up to 20 gigabytes per hour.
Ian Davies, founding and managing director of Isys, said the upgrades are intended to take enterprise search to an entirely new level than competing mid-market products.
We’re continuing to distance ourselves from limited and inflexible appliance-based search systems, while remaining much more reasonably priced than competing software-based solutions, he said.
Isys search was founded in 1988 and is privately held. The company’s search technology has carved out a strong niche in the law-enforcement, legal, and government sectors.
