Verity's Advanced Portal Infrastructure Software Boosts Efficiency of ACM Portal
Users of the Portal's Digital Library and Online Guide experience fast and accurate results on complex searches
SUNNYVALE, CA - 2002-01-08 - Members of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), the world's largest scientific and computing organization, now have a faster, easier way to research nearly a half-million scientific articles and citations. Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTY), a leading provider of infrastructure software powering enterprise and e-commerce portals as well as e-business applications, today announced that ACM, a society of computing professionals, researchers, students and technology enthusiasts, has improved the organization and retrieval of vast amounts of technical content in its ACM Portal with the help of Verityâ K2 Catalog software. As a result, ACM's 75,000 members and other users now have faster, more accurate access to massive libraries of scientific information.
"Since ACM installed Verity's K2 Catalog software, ACM Portal users have raved about almost instantaneous response times on even the most complex searches," said Wayne Graves, ACM's director of information services. "They are now able to execute elaborate queries across both the full texts from the Portal's Digital Library as well as vast bibliographic sources from books, journals, proceedings and theses included in the Portal's ACM Guide."
Verity's K2 Catalog is portal infrastructure software that allows organizations to perform advanced search, categorization and classification tasks across external-facing portals. The ACM Digital Library and ACM Guide - destinations on the ACM Portal - give members access to full-text journal and magazine articles as well as citations to third-party computer science literature and text from conference proceedings. Ninety-five percent of the articles are in PDF format, making text search difficult or impossible for many vendor products. For the first time, Verity K2 Catalog allows more precise full-text searches across this type of data residing in the ACM Portal. Verity K2 Catalog accesses documents created in other formats, as well, including HTML and Postscript.
Verity K2 Catalog's brokered architecture allows a greater volume of search without degradation in performance; ACM's previous search software could handle only limited transactions before slowing down. "The difference with Verity is like night and day," said ACM's Graves. "The ACM Portal currently hosts 1500 to 2000 sessions at peak times, with five or six complex searches occurring during each session. That was not possible before Verity."
Other benefits to ACM Portal users include Verity K2 Catalog's fault-tolerant operation, which distributes queries evenly across multiple servers so that no one server is ever overloaded with requests, and "fuzzy search," a feature that helps users find content in spite of misspelled search terms.
Our relationship with ACM is a solid example of Verity's expertise at turning vast amounts of disparate data into useful information," said Anthony J. Bettencourt, president of Verity. "Software developers, computer engineers, students and others use the ACM Portal to find the latest industry news or to conduct research critical to their needs. Verity delivers that information quickly and accurately so that users can spend more time generating ideas instead of waiting for query results or sorting through irrelevant data."
About Verity
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Verity is a leading provider of business portal infrastructure software. Verity software gives businesses a multitude of ways to improve access to vital information and perform a range of e-business operations, while enhancing the end-user experience. Verity-powered business portals, which include corporate portals used for sharing information within an enterprise; e-commerce portals for online selling; and market exchange portals for B2B activities, all provide personalized information to employees, partners, customers and suppliers.
Verity products are used by 80 percent of the Fortune 50 and by more than 1,500 corporations in various markets. Customers include Adobe Systems, American Greetings, AT&T, Cisco, CNET, Compaq, Dow Jones, EDGAR Online, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, FairMarket, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Home Depot, Lotus, NewsEdge Corporation, SAP, Siemens, Sybase, Time New Media and Timex. In 2001, Delphi Group named Verity as the market leader in the portal infrastructure software market.
About ACM
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students. ACM, the first society in computing, serves its global membership by delivering cutting edge technical information and transferring ideas from theory to practice. With its world-class journals and magazines, dynamic special interest groups, numerous conferences, workshops, electronic forums and the new Portal and Digital Library, ACM is a primary resource to the information technology field. For additional information about ACM and the ACM Portal, see http://www.acm.org.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Verity and the expected performance of its K2 Catalog software in the ACM Portal. Actual results are subject to risks and uncertainties including the risk that integration of the Verity software into the ACM Portal will be delayed or not occur, or not perform as anticipated, as a result of unforeseen technical difficulties. Risks relating to Verity and its products are set forth in its Form 10-K and other reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission under the caption "Risk Factors".
For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com or call 408-541-1500.
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