French National Library Chooses Exalead to Accelerate Digital Revolution

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French National Library Chooses Exalead to Accelerate Digital Revolution

Strategic Choice Meets Today's Needs and Anticipates Those of Tomorrow

Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) announced today that its subsidiary, Exalead, a global provider of search and information access software for the enterprise and the Web, has been selected by the French National Library (BnF/Bibliothèque nationale de France) to provide the information access infrastructure for its "Gallica" digital library project. The BnF joins other prestigious French institutions in designating Exalead as its partner of choice in preserving and promoting the nation’s cultural assets in the digital age. These institutions include the French Office of the President (Elysée), the French Government News Agency (Journaux Officiels), the National Audiovisual Institute (INA/Institut National de l'Audiovisuel), and the French international news channel France 24.

Deploying an innovative and agile solution for information access is critical to the success of large scale digitization efforts like Gallica. To date, the BnF has digitized more than one million works, including books, maps, manuscripts, images, periodicals, scores and sound recordings, and made them available to the public via its Gallica Web platform, gallica.bnf.fr. To ensure broad adoption of this rich resource by the public, and to ensure the long-term survivability of the cultural heritage Gallica embodies, the BnF knew it needed an information access strategy that could satisfy contemporary modes of accessing and consuming information, while ensuring adaptability to future evolutions. Therefore the BnF issued a call for bids and chose Exalead CloudView as the optimal solution for meeting its current and long term information access needs. Advanced linguistic and semantic features, high performance, and flexibility are among the strong points that lead the BnF to make this choice.

"The Gallica project is a model of innovation. It is breaking new ground in leveraging digital technologies to preserve a distinctive cultural heritage in a global age, and in providing dual access to both public domain and copyrighted digital material while fully respecting copyright law and authors’ rights," explains Laurent Couillard, CEO of Exalead. "It's the perfect challenge for the 21st century, and we're thrilled the BnF has chosen Exalead as its partner of choice to fulfill its visionary mission."

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About Dassault Systèmes

As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 115,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes applications provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com.

About Exalead

Founded in 2000 by Search engine pioneers, Exalead® is the leading search-based application platform provider to business and government. Exalead's worldwide client base includes leading companies such as PricewaterhouseCooper, ViaMichelin, GEFCO, WorldBank and Sanofi Pasteur, and more than 100 million unique users a month use Exalead's technology for search. Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with its platform, Exalead CloudView™, which uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-used data in the new hybrid enterprise and Web information cloud. CloudView collects data from virtually any source, in any format, and transforms it into structured, pervasive, contextualized building blocks of business information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the foundation for a new breed of lean, innovative information access applications. Exalead website: www.exalead.com

Harness innovative search-based technologies for faster, higher quality matching of candidate and positions

Effective Recruiting in the Digital Era

Successfully matching candidates and positions in the digital era can require sifting through a staggering volume of disparate data spread across dozens of resources. Now, employment agencies, corporate recruiters and online job boards (e.g., Manpower, fish4 and Randstand) are using Exalead CloudViewTM to to simplify and accelerate this process while enabling higher quality results.

What is CloudView?

CloudView is a unified platform for information search, access and reporting, and the leading infrastructure platform for search-based business applications. It is also the only search engine designed from the ground up for both the enterprise and the Web, powering a 16 billion page public Web search engine and serving more than 100 million unique monthly visitors through its public and customer installations.

One-Stop Access to All Resources

CloudView can greatly simplify your candidate search process by first collecting all your data, regardless of location, volume or format, then automatically transforming it into a single structured resource you can search with remarkable efficacy. As a result, you can search multiple internal and external resources from a single text box—with no painful data integration—including:

·         Multiple resume databases and applicant tracking systems

·         Email messages, text files and PDF documents

·         Social networking, Intranet and Web sites

Automated Analytics

Semantic Enrichment of Data

CloudView also boosts the quality and relevancy of this unified content by mining it for embedded information that can be used to enhance and better categorize data. Embedded data can include:

·         Named entities (people, places, organizations, dates, etc.)

·         Key phrases and concepts

·         Hidden relationships and connections between resources

An Agile Base for Innovation

Beyond this immediate ROI, CloudView provides an agile base that can adapt as your needs evolve, supporting social search, mobile applications, map-based applications, multimedia content processing, workflow integration and real-time reporting.

Solution Advantages

Increase Revenue

·         Attract new clients with a technology differentiator

·         Augment existing client loyalty and revenue

Reduce Costs

·         Boost productivity while lowering IT and training costs

·         Deploy non-intrusively in just weeks for a rapid ROI

Please contact Mark Padginton on +61 447774803 if you wish to know more regarding Exalead CloudVIew.

Exalead Named KMWorld "100 Companies that Matter" For Sixth Straight Year

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San Francisco, Unites States – March 8, 2011

Exalead Named KMWorld "100 Companies that Matter" For Sixth Straight Year

Exalead CloudView 360 Brings Semantic Processing to Big Data

Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), today announced that its subsidiary Exalead, a global provider of search-based applications (SBA) technology, has been named a KMWorld "100 Companies that Matter" for the sixth straight year.

Exalead’s flagship search-based application platform, CloudView 360, enables enterprises to rapidly deploy highly scalable, yet easy-to-use information applications about any aspect of business activity. Information can be combined from any and all relevant enterprise applications, collaboration applications and the Web to give at-a-glance and detailed insight to the entire organization from front-line workers to top executives. By adopting CloudView 360 and the search-based applications, enterprises gain operational efficiency and customer service improvements.

"Search-based applications are the fastest growing segment of the search market today, and with good reason," said Sue Feldman, vice president for Search and Discovery Technologies at IDC. "These applications are built on a flexible, scalable search backbone like CloudView 360, then customized to incorporate knowledge of a business process. They are designed with specific users in mind, with a purposeful interface to enable easier interaction with information that is drawn seamlessly from multiple sources. The complexity of uniting disparate information and of finding the semantic relationships between documents and data is significant, but enterprises desperately need this ability. To do so, though, requires technology that goes beyond basic search to include semantic processing and text analytics."

CloudView 360's unique combination of semantic data processing and mash-up-style information presentation provides large user communities with quick understanding of essential business information without having to work through tens or hundreds of applications or information sources. Relevant events, history, status, metrics, know-how and expertise are focused and combined to provide comprehensive insight. Information is mashed-up into dashboards and real-time executive summaries that include traditional charts and graphs, descriptive extracts, key facts, relationship graphs and Web-oriented representations such as word clouds.

Search-based applications built with CloudView 360 address needs for information and insight across enterprise functions that include research and development, manufacturing and logistics, regulatory compliance, sales and marketing, human resources and finance. Deployments of search-based applications now serve the communities of tens of thousands of users.

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About Exalead

Founded in 2000 by Search engine pioneers, Exalead® is the leading search-based application platform provider to business and government. Exalead's worldwide client base includes leading companies such as PricewaterhouseCooper, ViaMichelin, GEFCO, WorldBank and Sanofi Pasteur, and more than 100 million unique users a month use Exalead's technology for search. Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with its platform, Exalead CloudView™, which uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-used data in the new hybrid enterprise and Web information cloud. CloudView collects data from virtually any source, in any format, and transforms it into structured, pervasive, contextualized building blocks of business information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the foundation for a new breed of lean, innovative information access applications.

Exalead was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in June 2010. Exalead has offices in Paris, San Francisco, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Milan and Frankfurt.

Exalead customer quote : IdeA (Improvement and Development Agency) : Vertical Web Search, Online Knowledgebase

IdeA (Improvement and Development Agency)

Vertical Web Search, Online Knowledgebase

"We approached Exalead, FAST, Google, and Microsoft for a solution to give our CoP Facilitators a relevant search platform that would only search the sites they defined," comments Dale. "It was quickly apparent that only Exalead could meet these requirements."
"In comparison with the likes of a Google search, which sources millions of results, Exalead retrieves a much more contextually relevant set of results and has met our need to make online research at IDeA more targeted and exceedingly quicker."

Steve Dale, then Head of Knowledge and Information

Exalead Customer Quote : Gefco : Logistics Application (Track & Trace); Operational Business Intelligence

Gefco

Logistics Application (Track & Trace); Operational Business Intelligence

"Why didn't anyone think of this before?...Every day, I see thousands of events consolidated in real-time and I log on to the system just to be sure it's real! The stability and performance of the application is astonishing given its highly innovative character."
"Transitioning from a database-centric application to a CloudView search-based application enabled us to reduce our data refresh rate from 24 hours to 15 minutes, and to cut our cost per user 50%."

Guillaume Rabier, Manager of IT Studies and Projects

Download the GEFCO Case Study; Read the article GEFCO Wins CIO-Online Prizes;
Watch the Gefco Interview

Exalead Customer Quote: Friendster : Search for Social Networking Site

Friendster

Search for Social Networking Site

"The response times on search have definitely improved with Exalead. It's important that our members get near real-time access to the valuable information in our user profiles. We are pleased to say that Exalead's enhancements have helped us achieve this goal."

Prakash Dodeja, Director of Engineering
Download the Friendster Case Study

Exalead Customer Quote: fish4jobs : CV Matching for Recruitment Website

fish4jobs

CV Matching for Recruitment Website

"With CloudView, both the number and quality of matches has improved. As a result of this improved match quality, we have seen an increase in customer retention."
"We were very pleasantly surprised to find the performance gains were accompanied by a significant decrease in our IT costs. With CloudView, our cost per search has dropped 60%."

Paul Ellerbeck, CTO
Download the fish4jobs Case Study

Exalead Customer Quote : Bel

Bel

Enterprise Search

"Exalead CloudView™ software was selected from a dozen enterprise search software suppliers. The innovative features of CloudView helped satisfy our technical needs, which included a short implementation timeline and complete security of our information systems."

Jean Marc Lazard, Project Manager
Download the Bel Case Study

Exalead customer quote : ARF (Advertising Research Foundation)

ARF (Advertising Research Foundation)

Online Knowledgebase, Enterprise Search

"With Exalead in place, we're enabling our members to find and discover the unique and valuable knowledge we possess, to evaluate it quickly and apply it to the important decisions they need to make."
"I was able to do the software installation and at least 98% of the configuration myself. I sent off a couple of emails to Exalead every now and then, but that was it. I'm not kidding. It was that straightforward."

Steve Rappaport, Director of Knowledge Solutions
Download the ARF Case Study

Exalead Customer Quote : AFP (Agence France Presse)

AFP (Agence France Presse)

Online Search for Archive of 10 Million Photos

"Exalead has been very supportive in helping us identify the optimal architecture for satisfying our stringent requirements. Their technical support has been exemplary."
"Now we can add capacity on demand exactly as needed. All we have to do is simply add another server where we need it."

Jean-François Gaucheron, Project Director
Download the AFP Case Study

Exalead customer quote : 118 218 Le Numéro : Online Directory Service

118 218 Le Numéro

Online Directory Service

"The Exalead solution exceeded our expectations. We were able to launch an innovative, 24/7 service in less than 60 days, and we met our cost objectives, with a CPM (cost per 1000 impressions) of less than 0.03 euro."
"We went from zero to three million monthly visitors in our first year, a figure we expect to triple this year."

Bruno Massiet du Biest, CEO
Download the 118 218 Case Study; Watch the 118 218 Interview

Exalead Customer quote : The Scottish Government

The Scottish Government

"This is what users expect search to look like in the 21st century."

– Douglas Campbell
Scottish Government Case Study

 

How are organisations using Exalead Search-Based Applications?

Search-based Applications (SBAs): Service your internal and external customers better.

Search-based Applications (SBAs) are being used to bring new agility and expanded scope to enterprise applications like CRM, ERP, SCM, and Business Intelligence (BI) by enriching structured data with important emotive and qualitative data from vast 'unstructured' sources like email, blogs, chat, phone transcripts, and Web pages.

Access unstructured and structured data from any source, in any format
 and in any volume, and automatically transforms it into a single structured resource.

In addition, because search engines can update large volumes of data in real-time even under heavy usage loads, they can significantly improve the timeliness of information. The result is enhanced operational decision-making and competitiveness. More intuitive, Web-style search also boosts adoption rates and system usage, further increasing system ROI.

Search-based Applications provide an application development platform for tomorrow’s business solutions required to cope with the company challenges for today.

SBA - Access data anywhere

What are Search-Based Applications used for?

1. Provide a 360 overview of your customer.......

 

360 View of all your data



2. Extend your finance data from your ERP....

 

3.  Flow management and Supply chain optimization

4. Get an instant view of your online e-reputation and Sentiment analysis

5. Reveal the full potential of your loyalty card system

6. Prototype your promotions and layouts before deployment….

7. Visualise your data no matter where it is…..

Eliminating Information Access Barriers

CloudView Exalead is a powerful business enterprise search tool that provides True Unified Information Access and collects unstructured and structured data from any source, in any format and in any volume, and automatically transforms it into a single structured resource.

Exalead provides a unified information access platform that is revolutionizing

the development of both Web and business applications.