ISYS Search Software
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Established in 1988, ISYS Search Software is a global supplier of enterprise search software for information access, management and re-use. The company markets and sells a suite of embedded search, mobile access and information management infrastructure technology. ISYS states that its search, navigation and discovery software is used by customers to help them better leverage their internal content, and mitigate the risk and overhead with associated compliance, retention and e-discovery. Since inception, ISYS has sold its search software into more than 14,000 organizations worldwide, with the majority of business coming from government, legal, criminal intelligence, financial services and healthcare.
ISYS previously marketed and sold enterprise search applications that included ISYS:desktop, ISYS:web and ISYS:sdk.
ISYS bills itself as providing out-of-the-box search applications that can be customized and configured to meet the complex needs of large-scale enterprise search. According to the company, its retail products are most often compared to the Verity Ultraseek product or the Google Search Appliance, while its infrastructure and embedded search applications compete more closely with Autonomy and FAST Search & Transfer (now a subsidiary of Microsoft).
The ISYS engine is capable of searching multiple disparate data sources, including Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, Open Office, HTML, ZIP files, all major email products, all SQL data sources, SharePoint, Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino.
Some of ISYS's content mining capabilities include automatic Categorization, entity extraction, parametric search, Hit-highlighting and navigation, relevance ranking, multiple query methods, very fast indexing and retrieval and a small footprint. Through these capabilities, ISYS emphasizes rapid return and low cost of ownership.
Company milestones include:
In 1999, ISYS was selected by the Powerhouse Museum as one of the 100 most significant Australian innovations of the twentieth century.
It has consistently been listed as one of the 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management, the E-Content 100, and the Software 500.
In 2006, ISYS released version 8 which includes automatic entity recognition for text mining, e-discovery and expertise location, federated searching, greater performance, more formats, and greatly enhanced web server.
In 2007, ISYS entered the Linux marketplace with the release of the ISYS:sdk and ISYS:web server for Linux platforms, a key strategic move and the company's first foray into non-Windows environments.
In 2008, ISYS version 9 was released, which includes enhanced e-discovery support, results flagging, intelligent query expansion, custom search forms, parametric and timeline refinement. Also, support for EMC Documentum, Interwoven WorkSite, Office 2007 and other new file formats, and a dramatically increased maximum index size of 384GB (allowing the indexing of more than a terabyte of documents in a single index).
In 2009, ISYS released several new applications and a new suite for information access (see applications listed above). Applications include ISYS Integration Kit and ISYS File Readers for OEM search and text extraction; ISYS Anywhere for mobile enterprise search; and the 2009 ISYS Enterprise Access Suite.
