Media Coverage

11-05-2009 COMPUTERWORLD

Così le search based applications (SBA) rendono più facile l'accesso ai dati

Un'alternativa alle applicazioni basate sui database per ottimizzare le performance d'accesso alle informazioni con un basso costo di mantenimento.

10-27-2009 CMS Wire

Fatwire, MarkLogic, Recommind Named Innovative Info Access Companies

By definition, being an innovative company means providing a service that is new and different. The full list of IDC's favorites, in alphabetical order: Carefx, Connotate, Exalead [...]

10-27-2009 Hellmail

A Breakthrough In Sorting Management

Synaxio Analytics is a real-time monitoring and reporting system, and the first ever deployment of a search engine-based decision intelligence application in the postal services market. It is built upon the innovative Exalead CloudViewTM search engine, which was uniquely engineered for both the Web and the enterprise.

10-26-2009 Trading-house.net

IDC Names Innovative Information Access Companies Under $100M to Watch,Highlighting New Ways to Leverage Information Assets

To identify the companies to watch, IDC solicited entries from information access vendors with annual revenues of less than $100 million who exemplified one or more of three trends in information access software today. The companies selected in the information access category are (in alphabetical order): Carefx, Connotate, Exalead [...]

10-23-2008 Il Sole 24 Ore

Colori, parole e immagini di Exalead

Dici search e pensi a Exalead, perlomeno nel settore professionale. Tutte quelle organizzazioni che hanno necessità di soluzioni software di ricerca, di accedere alle informazioni: banche, pubbliche amministrazioni, aziende, media company, realtà della sanità e del business online.

10-13-2009 Trends Updates

A new way to search for images

Exalead is a site that increases useful functionalities in the searches for images. [...] Even the homepage can be personalized.

10-07-2009 CMS Wire

CloudView Search Certified With Designed For EMC Documentum Accreditation

Exalead announced that their CloudView Search Platform has received the "Designed for EMC Documentum" accreditation. The result of this accreditation is that CloudView can provide indexing and searching capabilities across Documentum databases.

10-06-2009 D.M.O.

Exalead è Designed for EMC Documentum

Exalead, fornitore di soluzioni per l'accesso intelligente alle informazioni, annuncia che la piattaforma tecnologica CloudView ha ricevuto la certificazione "Designed for EMC Documentum. Per riceverla, la soluzione ha dovuto dimostrare di soddisfare una serie completa di criteri di affidabilità e integrazione."

10-01-2009 PR-Canada

Exalead Named to Software Magazine's 27th Annual Software 500

"Exalead's revenue growth demonstrates significant customer acceptance of Exalead and its products," said Paul Doscher, CEO of Exalead. "Our primary focus during 2008 was on obtaining and servicing new and existing customers worldwide [...]"

09-25-2009 ArnoldIT

Like Law? Revel in Hearings Online

My weapon of choice comes from Exalead in Paris. If you are not familiar with this system, take a look at Voxalead. Audio and video data are searchable.

09-21-2009 About.com

Exalead Positioned in Challengers Quadrant of Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology

"We are proud to be positioned in the challengers quadrant. In my opinion, this position demonstrates the significant customer adoption of our products in the past year and our ability to manage search installations with extremely large scale," said Paul Doscher, US CEO of Exalead.

09-20-2009 Technorati

Exalead Lab Experiments

Phil Bradley reviewed the experimental search engines Exalead has developed and makes available through its lab site.

09-17-2009 COMPUTERWORLD

Voxalead, la ricerca diretta nei file multimediali

Frutto della collaborazione tra Exalead e Cedat85, il servizio ricerca i termini direttamente nei contenuti audio e video.

09-14-2009 TMCnet

Exalead and Cohezia develop channel partnership; Search innovator and experienced IT consultancy collaborate to develop bespoke information management solutions for businesses

CEO, Chandresh Pala, who has worked with the likes of Andersons and EDS-Scicon, has been extremely impressed with Exalead's platform. "The advantage of CloudView is that it is very efficient. We can, therefore, deploy solutions faster, so there is minimum impact on an organisation's IT infrastructure [...]"

09-09-2009 Lineadp

Gefco traccia i veicoli in tempo reale

Una soluzione di accesso alle informazioni di Exalead alla base del nuovo applicativo per il tracciamento logistico.

09-04-2009 PR-CANADA.NET

Exalead CloudView Named a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of the Year

"For the fourth year in a row, Exalead's solution has impressed us with its speed, scalability and the ability to unify different information sources" said Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor in chief.

08-21-2009 IL MONDO

La logistica di Gefco fa rotta su Exalead

"CloudView ha incrementato enormemente l'efficienza globale del sistema", spiega Guillaume Rabier, manager of studies and projects di Gefco. "Adesso disponiamo di un accesso più rapido alle informazioni, di dati affidabili e maggiori strumenti per il reporting operativo, che migliorano il processo decisionale degli uffici vendite e dei team di gestione globali".

07-22-2009 TMCnet

Exalead: Exalead Adds Up To The Perfect Solution For Institute Of Chartered Accountants In Ireland

The Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) has selected CloudView to provide comprehensive and smart access to its corporate data. [...]Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with a platform, Exalead CloudView that uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-utilised data in the disparate, heterogeneous enterprise information cloud.

07-16-2009 Information Age

Would you trust Google with your health?

François Bourdoncle, co-founder and chief strategist of search technology vendor Exalead: "Google's expertise is not in corporate IT and neither is Microsoft an expert in the web technology of the sort required. There is, however, a third way. The answer is an open platform, operated by a neutral partner, with a simple, solid, scalable web-based architecture..."

07-07-2009 Portals and KM

Expanding Web Search Part One: Focused Search-Based Applications

Exalead was able to change the approach for GEFCO to a search based application. [...] This greatly simplified the task and gave the car guys what they were used to on the Web. However, in this case you do not want thousands or millions of results as in Google but the single correct answer [...]. This application won an Europe award for IT innovation.

07-06-2009 Alt Search Engines

Tweepz: Search, Find, and Discover Twitters

One of the problems is that it is hard to find people on Twitter who have similar interests. Exalead, the company that created Tweepz, is a leader in search-based business applications solutions.

07-06-2009 TMCnet

Yell chooses Exalead CloudView to enrich search results

UK online business directory Yell, has chosen the CloudView platform from French search engine provider Exalead to enrich its search results. [...] The so-called "mash-up" service, combining content from Yell's proprietary data base, web search content and functionalities, information from Wikipedia, and pictures, is hosted by Exalead.

06-30-2009 COMPUTERWORLD

Five slick search engines you should know about

The University of California Berkeley Library recommends a second opinion when searching the Internet, and Exalead is one of its top recommendations. The search engine features a number of advanced options including phonetic search for those who are sometimes spelling challenged.

06-22-2009 La Repubblica

Da Exalead la ricerca dati "strutturata"

Una piattaforma SBA come Exalead CloudView puó "collezionare" volumi incredibili di dati da qualsiasi fonte, in ogni formato, e trasformarli automaticamente in una sola risorsa di informazione strutturata e dotata di senso.

06-17-2009 Fast Forward Blog

Expanding the Role and Capabilities of Search for the Enterprise

Exalead is not competing here but focusing instead on the other end of the market, operating in the long tail by enabling businesses to create purpose-built search-based applications. [...] Exalead is bringing search to new enterprise tasks and expanding its role through these search-based applications.

06-16-2009 News Italia Press

Carife premiata allo SMAU per l'innovazione ICT

Il Gruppo bancario, dopo essere stato selezionato fra trenta finalisti, si è aggiudicato il Premio Innovazione ICT nella categoria Web 2.0, per: "Essersi segnalato tra le imprese della Regione Emilia-Romagna che hanno innovato il proprio business attraverso l'utilizzo delle tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione."

06-01-2009 TMCnet

Exalead: Ex-Autonomy Sales Director joins Exalead

Hobson, formerly the UK Sales Director for Autonomy, is now responsible for managing Exalead's growing sales team [...] "Fuelled by the success of its CloudView solutions, Exalead's growth has been unrivalled. Channel growth is a vital part of the continued success of Exalead and I am thrilled to be joining the company to help drive the channel strategy forward," explains Hobson.

05-21-2009 Computer Dealer & Var

Piú stretti i rapporti con i system integrator per Exalead

Le Sba in particolare rappresentano una grande opportunità per i partner, poiché sono applicazioni che consentono di ridurre i costi, che non richiedono training, che offrono, cioè tutta una serie di vantaggi rilevanti per le aziende.

05-15-2009 toptrade

Exalead, l'era delle search based application

Giovedì 28 maggio alle ore 15.00, si terrà a Roma, presso l'Hotel De Russie, il Partner Meeting di Exalead durante il quale verrà presentato ai partner e ai system integrator la rivoluzione apportata da CloudView.

04-16-2009 Web Worker Daily

Exalead Desktop Search: Indexing Without The Excess

"I'm skittish when it comes to desktop indexing and search apps[...]but I was pleasantly surprised.[...]I was impressed when Exalead detected and offered to index my Thunderbird mailbox during the first run setup wizard..."

04-15-2009 KMWorld

The Secret to Containing Costs and Improving Service

[...]So what is the secret to success? How do leaders in IT and customer care manage their department budgets more prudently without sacrificing customer service and business productivity?[...]

03-20-2009 eWeek

Exalead: Cloudview cambia le regole del gioco

"L'introduzione di Cloudview permette di estendere il perimetro delle applicazioni di ricerca verso la Business Intelligence , il Crm e il marketing operativo. Google ha insegnato a tutti come fare ricerca. Ma poi per l'utente resta il problema di reperire risultanti rilevanti per la sua attività".

03-20-2009 Lineaedp

Exalead, il motore di ricerca va in azienda

"La nostra società vanta un storica presenza nella Pa e sui portali - ha spiegato Bombini - Il nostro obiettivo è sviluppare la presenza anche nelle imprese, grazie a strumenti che possono aiutare l'agilità e la riduzione dei costi operativi".

03-12-2009 D.M.O.

Exalead rivoluziona l'accesso alle informazioni

Adeguarsi ai bisogni espressi e inespressi degli utenti in modo semplice e flessibile è la finalità delle sue soluzioni software per la ricerca e il recupero di informazioni all'interno di organizzazioni di tutte le dimensioni e a tutti i livelli, dal desktop ai database, dalle intranet al Web.

03-06-2009 IL MONDO

Puglia, dati a portata di click

"Quello di indicizzare la Teca del Mediterraneo, inserito nei progetti di Federated search (Federazione di siti), è solo un primo passo verso la condivisione di patrimoni informativi che altrimenti resterebbero inesplorati, con la disponibilità dei cittadini di consultazioni dirette e in tempo reale."

02-12-2009 CIO TODAY

CloudView OEM 5.0 Emphasizes Scalability. Manageability

"What this latest version of the product does is allow our customers to have better access to a broader spectrum of info than they have had before," says Doscher. "This product now becomes our engine for the next number of years. We think that it's an indication of our technology leadership."

01-27-2009 MarketWatch

Exalead Announces CloudView OEM Edition 5.0, Flexible OEM Pricing Model

"The challenge for ISVs is to provide that same experience in their search capabilities without sacrificing the security and precision required for enterprise use. Exalead CloudView OEM Edition helps them deliver on that challenge."

01-27-2009 Semantisize

Exalead enhances OEM search product

New technology features improved scalability and easier integration Enterprise search vendor Exalead today launched a new version of its search and information application development platform designed specifically for independent software vendors (ISVs) and software-as-a-service providers...

01-27-2009 Gilbane

Exalead Announces CloudView OEM Edition 5.0

Exalead announced the availability of CloudView OEM Edition 5.0, an embeddable, scalable search and information application development platform designed specifically for ISVs and SaaS providers. In conjunction with this release, Exalead also announced a new OEM pricing framework.

01-26-2009 ArnoldIT

Exalead: Moving the Front Line

"A happy quack to the reader in California who sent me an update on Exalead. In the last 10 days, I have received a steady flow of news. The company continues to make headway in the US market..."

01-24-2009 GridLock

Exalead to Compete with Google and Microsft Enterprise Search Capabilities

"A benefit to the CloudView OEM Edition 5.0 is the fact that it boasts a new product architecture for faster search and information management and it embeds existing software platforms more easily due to its service and web oriented architecture."

01-23-2009 D.M.O.

Accesso intelligente alle informazioni nella PA

Exalead, software house fornitrice globale di soluzioni per l'accesso intelligente alle informazioni, annuncia di aver concluso due importanti progetti: il primo con la Regione Basilicata, il secondo con il Consiglio Regionale della Puglia.

01-23-2009 eWeek

Exalead Takes OEM Approach to Enterprise Search to Compete with Google, Microsoft

Rogge said: "We're finding that Web 2.0 technology like wikis, instant messaging, social networking and collaboration are creating a new class of data, kind of like e-mail in the sense that we want to keep track of conversations, but much more explosively. It's these kind of applications that enterprises need to get a handle on so they can track applications." To that end, CloudView OEM Edition 5.0 can support over 500TB of data per server cluster and more than 100 million documents on a single server. It can index up to 30 million database objects in 10 hours and 60GB of mail data in a single hour.

01-21-2009 EContent

View From Exalead: CloudView OEM 5.0 Emphasizes Scalability and Manageability

The French search company Exalead has long maintained a reputation for the scalability of its OEM solutions. With the Jan. 26 release of the 5.0 version of its CloudView OEM Edition, the company has once again aimed to make strides in this area in order to enable organizations large and small to manage their information more effectively.

01-20-2009 FierceContentManagement.com

One on One with François Bourdoncle of Exalead

"I actually believe that enterprise search is still in its infancy, at least when you think of "search" as an Internet-inspired infrastructure for designing business applications. Of course, most of the building blocks are already there--faceted navigation, linguistic and semantic technologies, grid-computing technologies, dynamic clustering and categorization, to name a few. What is very new, however, is the way to combine all these technologies into a coherent infrastructure that can be applied to all sorts of business contexts and at any scale."

01-15-2009 Pubblica Amministrazione

La PA secondo Exalead

Exalead non solo valorizza il patrimonio di conoscenza interno ad un'organizzazione, ma lo rende interamente fruibile, in tempi estremamente ridotti, ad ogni utente medio, in maniera semplice e veloce.

12-18-2008 D.M.O.

Exalead nella classifica di EContent 100

Exalead, software house fornitrice globale di soluzioni per l'accesso alle informazioni, compare anche quest'anno nella classifica dei 100 principali leader ed innovatori nel settore dei contenuti digitali stilata dalla rivista americana EContent 100.

12-10-2008 D.M.O.

Exalead aderisce al programma "Business Information and Intelligence" di HP

Exalead, fornitore globale di soluzioni per l'accesso alle informazioni, annuncia di essere il primo vendor nell'ambito dell'Information Access ad essere stato inserito nel programma "Business Information and Intelligence" creato da HP per i partner.

12-03-2008 TMCnet.com

Exalead Named to EContent 100

"2008 has been a big year for Exalead -- we signed more than 50 new customers, released our CloudView product family and expanded our North American operations," said Paul Doscher, CEO of Exalead. "Our inclusion in the EContent 100 underscores our achievements in 2008 and is indicative of not only our technology's innovation but also our company's global traction."

11-27-2008 Computer Week

Siti per trovare di tutto

Eccellente nella precisione delle risposte. A differenza di Google, Exalead ha molte funzioni. I risultati mostrano automaticamente le anteprime dei siti, una funzione disattivabile attraverso un semplice clic. Ma perché farne a meno? Un riquadro sulla destra dei risultati ci permette di "affinare la ricerca". Le opzioni che abbiamo a disposizione sono tantissime.

11-25-2008 FRENZY

TERMINALFOUR Updates Web CMS, Creates Partner Community

TERMINALFOUR just finished up their t44u Global User Conference last week and it sounds like it was a good one. They not only demonstrated the latest version of their Web CMS - Site Manager 6.2, they also announced the creation of a Partner and User Extranet powered by that new version.

11-24-2008 CMS WIRE

TERMINALFOUR Tackles Enterprise Search with Exalead's Cloudview

Relatively quiet with the news lately, TerminalFour has just made a big announcement related to their Web Content Management System. A new partnership with Exalead, provider of Enterprise Search solutions, will see TerminalFour's Web CMS include the enterprise search capabilities of Exalead's Cloudview solution.

11-18-2008 EContent

Exalead and TERMINALFOUR Partner

Exalead's CloudView product line will be made available alongside TERMINALFOUR's Site Manager to help businesses manage their web, intranet, and extranet content and provide an enterprise search facility. Exalead's CloudView product line is an enterprise platform designed specifically to overcome search requirements and consumer facing web sites.

11-18-2008 Compute Scotland

Exalead cloud through Terminalfour for Scottish Government?

Exalead, the Paris-based global leader of search software for business and the web whose client base includes 'leading companies such as the Scottish Government,' together with the Dublin-based Terminalfour, Europe's fastest growing content management company, [...] announced a new strategic partnership which reflects both companies' commitment to development and expansion and will also allow both companies to drive new growth opportunities.

11-17-2008 ECM Connection

Exalead And TERMINALFOUR Announce Strategic New Partnership

Piero Tintori, CEO and founder of TERMINALFOUR, said, "Exalead proved to be a perfect addition to the TERMINALFOUR community. Like TERMINALFOUR, they understand the importance of aligning their customers' IT requirements with their business needs. With search being crucial to so many companies today, Exalead's best of breed search capabilities will play a vital role in securing new customers for TERMINALFOUR as we continue to gain market share throughout Europe, the US and the middle-east."

11-17-2008 ENN

Daily Digest 17 November

Content management firm TerminalFour has signed a deal with Exalead, a search software provider. Exalead's CloudView product line will be made available alongside TerminalFour's Site Manager to help businesses manage their web, intranet and extranet content and provide an enterprise search facility. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

11-03-2008 Broadcasting.it

Exalead protagonista al Gartner SYMPOSIUM ITxpo di Cannes

Exalead ha dimostrato la sua estrema credibilità nel saper gestire volumi di traffico importanti, processando agevolmente 800 query al secondo nel caso di uno dei suoi clienti che ha indicizzato online oltre 15 milioni di documenti.

10-24-2008 The New York Times

Exalead updates enterprise search to explore data 'cloud'

The new brand, CloudView, is about giving enterprise users access to the cloud of data around them, whether on their own machine, on company servers or on the Internet, allowing external data to be incorporated into searches. There's no cloud computing involved, though: the company's intention is to have everything running on its customers' servers.

10-21-2008 D.M.O.

Compa.it cerca con Exalead

"Avevamo già un motore di ricerca ma quando si è presentata l'occasione di sostituirlo con Exalead non abbiamo avuto dubbi: le caratteristiche esclusive di questa tecnologia ci avrebbero permesso di mostrare quell'attenzione verso l'utente che una nuova comunicazione di pubblica utilità dovrebbe mostrare: un servizio incentrato sul cittadino infatti consente di risparmiare tempo, interrogare tutte le fonti disponibili, per una perfetta trasparenza ed una perfetta informazione" commenta Raffaella Segantin, Responsabile del COM-PA.

10-18-2008 MILANO FINANZA

Bombini arriva in Exalead come managing director

Exalead, software house per lo sviluppo di soluzioni d'accesso alle informazioni aziendali, ha annunciato l'ingresso di Rosagrazia Bombini in qualità di Managing Director di Exalead Italia.

10-16-2008 Il Sole 24 Ore

L'iter più veloce tra le banche dati dei ministeri

Per le organizzazioni pubbliche, e in particolare i ministeri, l'implementazione dei servizi attraverso i loro portali è passata attraverso la soluzione Enterprise di Exalead, un software che migliora l'accesso alle risorse informative attraverso un'indicizzazione molto sofisticata di database e informazioni non strutturate da un unico punto d'accesso.

10-05-2008 ArnoldIT

Exalead's High Performance Platform: CloudView

[...]"In my investigation of search company technology, I learned that Exalead's ability to scale is comparable to Google's. As Mr. Muncaster noted, the forthcoming version of the Exalead software—called CloudView—will put Exalead squarely in the business intelligence sector of the content processing market."

10-03-2008 ArnoldIT

Mindbreeze Enterprise Search

[...]"The flagships in search and content processing remain Autonomy (more of a diversified services vendor) and Exalead (a real challenger to the GOOG in engineering) dominate the European scene."

10-02-2008 Information Today

Exalead Offers a Cloud(y)View of Information Access

[...]"We are building our new platform from the ground up so that it will also offer our partners, such as systems integrators and value added resellers, the ability to build out high end solutions to their customers," says Francois Bourdoncle, Exalead co-founder. "Our key objective is to allow developers to extend the reach of business applications to unstructured content.[...]"

10-01-2008 KMWorld

Conquering data clouds

Exalead has introduced the CloudView family of products, which is slated for availability beginning in Q4 2008. The solutions have evolved from the Exalead one:enterprise line with a new architecture designed to better adapt to the scaling requirements of today's enterprise.

09-26-2008 EContent

Exalead Announces Enterprise Information Access Platform

Exalead CloudView product line will offer: a fully distributed architecture with centralized administration, business level tuning and management of the search experience, ability to extend Business Intelligence applications to textual search, and a WYSIWYG configuration of indexing and search workflows.

09-25-2008 Alt Search Engines

Exalead enters the US enterprise search market

Exalead, a global leader of information access software for business and the web, today announced the industry's most flexible and scalable enterprise platform designed specifically to overcome the new challenges facing the evolving complex search requirements of enterprises and high traffic consumer facing web sites.

05-26-2008 InfoWeek, Germany

Search platforms for enterprises

[...]Exalead offers a good Web, Intra- and desktop search with good content analysis features. Exalead also offers a web seach under exalead.de.

04-25-2008 Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany

Answers please! Scientists work on search engines that understand what there users want to find

[...]Born out of Quaero, exalead does not find as many results as Google does, but it offer feature richness such as preview pictures in the results list.

04-23-2008 Berliner Zeitung, Germany

The best results - Alternatives to Google

[...]Exalead offers graphical and listed search results in a very comfortable interface.

04-21-2008 Wien.orf.at, Austria

Warning against the Google Trap

[...]Although exlead does not search through as many sites as google, the result listing is more comfortable and features page previews.

03-25-2008 Handelsblatt, Germany

In search of the search

Exalead Founder François Bourdoncle (www.exalead.de) has not given up hope yet to close on to Google one day. "There are 300 people workin in R&D at Google, we have 50. But the difference is not as big as you could imagine."

03-23-2008 International Herald Tribune

Quaero gets off the ground to challenge Google

[...]One of them, Exalead, which specializes in business search engine technology, is one of the few French-born technology companies to compete with Google on any level, and is one of the Quaero project leaders.

03-03-2008 ComputerWeekly

IDeA deploys streamlined search platform to aid staff working on behalf of councils

The government's Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) has integrated Exalead's online search functionality into its agency-wide IT platform to streamline staff search functions.

02-25-2008 ArnoldIT

An Interview with François Bourdoncle

Stephen Arnold: "I count Exalead as one among four vendors that are candidates to replace an incumbent system. Furthermore, I identified Exalead as an "up and comer," a designation that means a company has strong growth and exceptional technology. My analyses show that Exalead is "a next-generation system," and it warrants a long, hard look by an organization wanting to deliver robust search and retrieval, content processing, and low-latency performance to a single user or tens of thousands of users."

01-22-2008 internetnews.com

Exalead Woos FAST Customers

Kevin Kramer, vice president of OEM sales at Exalead, said the Exalead migration program is designed to take risk off the table for companies considering a switch. Kramer said he has no doubt Microsoft's ownership will impact FAST's feature road map to be more in sync with Microsoft's strategy. "And those moves may not align well with what an OEM customer wants," he said.

01-19-2008 Byte and Switch

Exalead Launches Migration Program

"Accelerate With Exalead is designed to help ease those uncertainties by providing organizations with a compelling, risk-free alternative to migrate to a high-performance, scalable enterprise search platform.", said Kevin Kramer, vice president of OEM, Exalead.

01-18-2008 Computer Technology Review

Messaging Architects and Exalead launch M+Archive 3.5 for email eDiscovery

"Integrating the Exalead platform into M+Archive directly benefits enterprise-level organizations by resulting in a dramatic reduction of the cost and time traditionally associated with eDiscovery requests," said François Bourdoncle, co-founder of Exalead.

01-09-2008 vnunet.com

A simpler way to scour content (ITWEEK article)

Raymond Bentinck: "[...]We also developped a whole new language, which means we can put the technology in very quickly, and a large proportion of our customers don't need professional services from us."

01-09-2008 internetnews.com

Will Microsoft's FAST Buy Pay Off Long Term?

IDC analyst Sue Feldman said search can be "endlessly useful" in the enterprise[...]. She said companies like FAST and competitors such as Autonomy and Exalead are addressing the need of enterprise customers to access transactional, sales, Web and documents in a unified way.

01-08-2008 InfoWorld

Microsoft bids $1.2B for Fast Search and Transfer

Fast Search's rivals in the market for specialized enterprise search tools include Google, with its Search Appliance; French search company Exalead, and Autonomy, which recently acquired Meridio and Zantaz.

01-08-2008 IDC

Microsoft acquires FAST

[...]They and a handful of other visionary vendors like Endeca and Exalead have begun offering a sort of "BI lite" that increases the ease of entry and access to data stores. In doing so, they helped to precipitate a flurry of acquisitions over the last year as BI and data-based companies hastened to catch up.

01-07-2008 ITWEEK

A simpler way to scour content

Raymond Bentinck: "We realised that enterprise search is currently too complex, expensive and hard to deploy.[...] Exalead's products are designed to be used by business managers rather than search specialists."