Exalead's product CloudView is an information-access platform that collects data from sources including the Web, email servers, databases, and multimedia archives, and then indexes it into a cohesive information resource. This resource, which is continually evolving and scalable, can be searched directly or used as a foundation for building web and enterprise search-based applications.
Search technology has been around for a long time in one form or another, but in the last five years the technology has expanded into many different areas and usage scenarios.
More than 250 companies worldwide and 100 million unique users a month rely on Exalead's information access platform to search, discover, and manage their information assets for faster, smarter decision-making, real-time unified data access, and improved productivity.
Here are a few examples....
The Manutan Group specializes in online catalogue sales and has stated;
"...customer loyalty has increased by 30% as a direct result of our implementation of the Exalead search engine. Perhaps most important, we saw a 40% increase in our online catalogue sales conversion rate."
UK Internet company named Fish4 who is one of the UK’s largest classified websites, with over 3.3 million people visiting it sites for jobs, homes, cars, travel and dating.
Fish4 deployed Exalead CloudView and reduced their cost of search to the business by 250 %.
They were very impressed with CloudView’s abiliy to scale and adapt to the company’s growth that they have deployed it across all of their departments including fish4cars, fish4homes, fish4holidays and fish4love.
Another organisation to have benefited from CloudView technology is Rightmove which is UK’s #1 property website which attracts over 29 million visits a month. Rightmove considered a number of technologies before selecting exalead. The direct result of deploying Exalead reduced their cost of search from .06 pence to .01 pence per query and all was able to be deployed on minimal hardware requirement.
Exalead’s customer AFP (Agence France Presse) is one of the three largest global news agencies. AFP’s B2B ImageForum site has a database of more than 10 million images which is updated daily with 6,000 pictures as the news breaks.
Friendster is a leading global online social network with more than 110 million members worldwide. Friendster chose to use Exalead CloudView because it provided faster query processing, extreme scalability and their 110 million users is stored on just 6 low cost Linux servers.
Exalead has had no failed projects and a 100% referenceable customer base which is not a common thing in today’s world of technology.
