Sunnyvale, California-based Verity says its KeyView Filter and Export software development kits (SDKs) are now included as part of Oracle’s 10g Release 2 database system.
The software offers Oracle users with high-performance document filtering (supporting over 300 file formats) and multi-file conversion capabilities – specifically for XML and Web-ready HTML.
The Export SDK is embedded as part of Oracle Text, an indexing and classification engine built for Oracle 10g.
The move shouldn’t be a surprise as Verity is the market leader in embedded technologies. The move also bolsters Oracle’s unstructured data management capabilities, an area which the company says it is starting to address more seriously.
Oracle Text has been available as part of its database for some time. In 1994 it also introduced its ConText software for content analysis of unstructured text using linguistic analysis and added multimedia data type handling as well. However Oracle has not emphasized these components that much up to now.
This might change as Oracle recently unveiled its Tsunami enterprise content management strategy which is being crafted into an upgraded version of Oracle Collaboration Suite due in early 2005.
Customers can also expect Oracle 10g release to include more performance enhancements for handling unstructured content, like document indexing, in future versions of the product.
