Renowned University and Medical Facility Embraces Search Engine Software to Optimize Intellectual Capital Assets
SUNNYVALE, Calif - 2003-09-30 - Nearly 1,000 Web sites operated by various departments in The Johns Hopkins Institutions are today using Verity Ultraseek, a powerful, downloadable enterprise search engine from Verity Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTY), a leading provider of enterprise software that helps organizations maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment.
The Johns Hopkins Institutions, a highly regarded university and health care facility, first deployed the Ultraseek technology a few years ago after an ABC News television program profile of the Johns Hopkins' medical facility generated a dramatic rise in queries to its main external medical systems Web site. The Ultraseek technology was formerly known as Inktomi Enterprise Search prior its acquisition by Verity in December 2002.
"That sudden onslaught of traffic generated by the ABC News television program made us realize we needed a better and more powerful search engine. After extensive evaluation of several vendors' search technology, we found the Ultraseek product to be the best way to meet our immediate and long-term needs," said Brian Cole, a senior systems software engineer with The Johns Hopkins Institutions' Enterprise Services. "Ultraseek not only was able to solve our pressing challenge, but we saw it as an effective search solution for all of the different Web sites across the Johns Hopkins organization. The product's ease of deployment was as important as finding information easily and quickly."
As part of a drive to optimize IT resources within the two entities, Cole sought to standardize the search engine by encouraging the use of Ultraseek on the external and internal sites operated by different Johns Hopkins departments. Within a short period of time, administrators and users of the different departments' Web sites at The Johns Hopkins Institutions recognized the effectiveness of the Ultraseek search technology. Today, Verity Ultraseek is the de facto search engine for the hundreds of Web sites at Johns Hopkins.
There is considerable crossover content between the academic and health care operations. For example, the university's faculty and students in the schools of medicine, public health and nursing search content residing on sites maintained by The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Verity Ultraseek permits searching across multiple sites quickly.
"Searching across multiple sites is particularly appealing as it allows users to access information from different repositories with a single click," Cole said. "Verity Ultraseek brings the content together easily and accurately without having to navigate across many sites."
"The Johns Hopkins Institutions' Web presence represents a fantastic educational and health information resource," said Anthony J. Bettencourt, Verity's president and CEO. "The institutions' system-wide use of Verity Ultraseek allows researchers, educators, students and the general public to make the most of significant intellectual capital assets."
The content repositories at Johns Hopkins consist of hundreds of document formats that are spread across Web servers, file systems, secure systems and other repositories. Verity Ultraseek's intelligent, adaptive spider indexes all of these into a common Ultraseek Index that makes them searchable with a single query, permitting manuals, journals, abstracts or research papers to be stored in the format in which they were created. Users and administrators have found this feature to be useful in enhancing their search experience.
The use of Verity Ultraseek institution-wide has proven to be one of the most successful aspects of Johns Hopkins' drive to optimize IT resources.
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Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Verity provides software solutions that help organizations maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment by utilizing Verity's industry-leading enterprise search, classification and personalization technologies. Verity software is used for sharing information within and between enterprises; for facilitating e-commerce sales; and for B2B activities on Web-based market exchanges. In addition, Verity technology serves as a core component of many leading e-business applications.
Verity products are used by more than 3,500 organizations in the private and public sectors. Customers include Adobe Systems, AT&T, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Cisco, Documentum, Dow Jones, EDGAR Online, Financial Times, H-P, Home Depot, Lotus, META Group, SAP, Siemens, Stellent, Sybase, Time New Media and Timex.
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