Latest Release of Verity Ultraseek Software Offers New and Improved Capabilities To Enhance Enterprise Search Relevance, Content Acquisition
Company Introduces Release-Over-Release Improvements in Indexing, Security and Platform Support
SUNNYVALE, Calif - 2004-09-07 - Verity Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTY), a leading provider of enterprise software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment, today announced the availability of Verity® Ultraseek® release 5.3, downloadable enterprise search software well-suited for organizations that need a powerful, yet quick-to-implement search engine to enable employees, partners and customers to quickly and accurately locate intellectual capital on public Web sites and intranets.
This latest release of Verity Ultraseek incorporates a number of significant features that further enhance the product's search relevance and content acquisition capabilities, including:
• Page Expert to recognize patterns in HTML pages, so that the spider indexes only the relevant content, and skips over navigation, menus, advertisements and common template-generated text;
• Relevance Tuning and Editorial Control Options to fine-tune search results to match information structure of the documents and end-user needs;
• Multi-Spider to allow the spidering technology to make multiple simultaneous HTTP requests to a single host, enabling users to get access to new and updated content quickly;
• Weblog Update to ensure that new entries are searchable by accepting notification whenever new content is published to selected blogs;
• Enhanced Secure Search to ensure only those documents that a user is authorized to view will appear in the results lists;
• Expanded Platform Support to include Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and SUSE Linux 8.0.
"The objective with every new release of Verity Ultraseek is to continue to drive the state-of-the-art in end-users' search experience, while maintaining low total cost of ownership. Verity Ultraseek 5.3 brings improvements in search relevance for real-world enterprise content, where simple web search algorithms fail," said Anthony J. Bettencourt, Verity's president and chief executive officer. "This new offering focuses on extending Ultraseek's superior performance to deliver relevant search results and an easy implementation process that can be achieved within minutes."
Superior Search Relevance
The new Page Expert feature increases search relevance by recognizing patterns in HTML pages through the use of filters, so that the spider indexes only the relevant content, and skips over navigation, menus, advertisements and common template-generated text. The Page Expert's filters can be automatic, or customized to match individual enterprise's local page conventions and templates. This feature also includes an intuitive interface to allow administrators to view a visual representation of the filters' performance on a particular page. Page Expert is particularly valuable in Web environment in which author-written indexing directions are missing or inconsistent.
Furthermore, the product's search results can be fine-tuned to leverage information structure with relevance tuning options that deliver comprehensive control over the relative weight of metadata such as date, author and URL, when scoring documents.
Enterprise information is typically found in hundreds of different file formats and languages, and in multiple locations. With the explosion of content on corporate intranets and government websites, it is not unusual to find single systems with hundreds of thousands of documents. While past versions of Ultraseek were tuned to gradually build an index by accessing many sites, the software's new Multi-Spider capability can rapidly create large indices by allowing multiple simultaneous HTTP requests to be sent to a single host server. This enables users to access new and updated content quickly and easily.
The popularity of weblogs and "blogging", both on public sites and now within the enterprise, has resulted in growing interest in being able to search these dynamic resources. Ultraseek's new Weblog Update feature notifies the Ultraseek system when new blog entries are published, ensuring that users get access to the latest entries published in specified blogs in real-time.
With this new release's secure search capabilities, hit-level filtering of results lists is supported for both basic and NT Challenge/Response authentication. This ensures that only those documents that a user is authorized to view will appear in results lists. If a user isn't authorized to view a document, he won't even know it exists.
Expanded Platform Support
The increasing acceptance of Linux in the enterprise datacenter has resulted in greater interest in support for additional platforms. Ultraseek 5.3 now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 and 3.0, Red Hat Linux 8.0, as well as SUSE Linux 8.0. Supported non-Linux platforms include Solaris and Microsoft Windows 2003.
For more information about Verity Ultraseek 5.3 or to download the product for a 30-day free trial, please visit: www.verity.com/ultraseek.
About Verity
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Verity provides software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment. The company's intellectual capital management (ICM) solutions provide integrated search, classification, recommendation, monitoring and analytics across the real-time flow of enterprise information, along with question and answer interfaces for effective online self-service. Other Verity ICM solutions capture content and drive automated business processes. Verity technology also serves as a core component of more than 260 applications from leading independent software vendors.
Verity software solutions are used by more than 11,500 customers in the private and public sectors. Customers include American Express, AT&T, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Cardinal Health, Cisco Systems, EMC Documentum, Dow Jones, Financial Times, Hewlett-Packard, Home Depot, Lotus, Kaiser Permanente, META Group, SAP, Siemens, the State of California, Stellent, Sybase, the U.S. Departments of Energy and Justice, and the U.S. Army.
The statements in this press release regarding the benefits that Verity expects its customers will receive from Verity Ultraseek 5.3 are forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the risk that: the benefits may not be obtained due to technical or other reasons; and the structure of certain customers' organizations may not be conducive to realizing these benefits. These and other risks relating to Verity and its business and products are set forth under the caption "Risks Relating to Our Operations" in Item 1 of Verity's Form 10-K filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on August 13, 2004.
For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com or call 408-541-1500.
Verity and the Verity logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Verity, Inc.
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