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11.16.2005
GrokkerESM Integrates Content Federation, Powerful Text Mining, and Visual Search Capabilities for the Enterprise
SAN FRANCISCO — Groxis, the leader in visual
search and federated content applications, announced today the
release of GrokkerESM, a Web2.0 enterprise search management application.
GrokkerESM provides businesses, libraries and content providers
with a powerful combination of federated content access and topically
organized visual search results for any type of information found
online. With GrokkerESM, research-intensive organizations maximize
the reach and value of their information assets and produce higher-quality,
actionable research.
Content Federation Maximizes Value
At grokker.com, the ESM technology can be validated with live
web searches conducted simultaneously across a growing number of
high quality content sources such as the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) Digital Library, Yahoo!™ search, the Amazon.com
books catalog, and business news aggregated by Daypop.com. The
commercial version GrokkerESM gives organizations the ability to
dive deeper across a broader selection of specialty content sources
and corporate portals, all from a single visual search interface.
“Organizations accumulate an overwhelming amount of business
intelligence information today but much of it goes unused because
of the difficulties posed by accessing it,” said R.J. Pittman,
President and CEO of Groxis. “By bringing together disparate
content silos such as subscription content, market news, and proprietary
enterprise data into a single application, Grokker transforms information
overload into actionable research.”
Sun Microsystems partnered with Groxis in 2004 and then licensed
an advance version of GrokkerESM, called SunLibrary Grokker, which
provides federated access and visually organized search results
for several different research sources including the IEEE Electronic
Library, the EBSCOHost journals database and Sun's own internal
email research repository.
“We’ve seen a marked increase in the use of our premium
content and have heard that the visualization solution has provided
a greater efficiency and time savings when conducting research,”
said Cindy Hill, SunLibrary Manager at Sun Microsystems. “Grokker
is quickly becoming one of the first stops for our technical and
engineering workers when they're looking for quality information
because they know that they'll have the tool set to find what they
need.”
Web2.0 Application Means Fast Integration
GrokkerESM is a complete Web2.0-based solution that brings the
software’s dynamic visual search interface to any web browser by
leveraging Ajax technology in the client that connects to Grokker’s
powerful new enterprise search management (ESM) web service.
“A Web2.0 enabled application allows us to serve a much
broader audience across the enterprise and research institutions
with significantly reduced cost of deployment and total cost
of ownership when compared with traditional enterprise applications,”
said Howard Rosen, Vice President of Engineering for Groxis.
“GrokkerESM was developed to ensure that businesses can reliably
be up and running with our advanced enterprise search technology
in a matter of no time, and today we are delivering on that commitment.”
About Groxis
Groxis is a pioneer in visual search technology and the creator of the patented
Graphical Information Interface (GII). Groxis develops and markets a web-based
content access and visual search platform based on the GII called Grokker™.
Corporations, universities, and content publishers are using Grokker to improve
the way people explore, organize, and share digital information. Grokker ties
together library catalogs, corporate databases, subscription content, and search
engines in a visual user interface that yields increased productivity through
more efficient research and collaboration. A privately held company backed
by leading venture investors, Groxis is based in San Francisco's financial
district. For more information, please visit http://www.grokker.com.
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