ISYS Founder Ian Davies discusses tips for delivering on the promise of enterprise search.

Your friends at ISYS have been hard at work, and we have plenty to tell you in this issue of ISYS Update. Read up on our work with Lend Lease to learn how the company is leveraging ISYS for expertise location and knowledge sharing. The solution is yielding significant timesaving, and we all know time equals money. Additionally, please take a look at our poll for this issue and place your vote; we always like to hear from you. And finally, read Ian Davies' recent article on 'Fulfilling the Promise of Enterprise Search' for tips on how to maximize the value of your search implementation.

Already longtime customers of the ISYS:desktop application for desktop and network search, the Nevada Legislature has implemented ISYS:web to search the text of bills that are currently before the state’s legislature. After reviewing several products, legislature representatives stated their decision to implement ISYS:web was based on its ease of setup and maintenance, as well as the sophistication of its technology.

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A select group comprised of industry analysts, KM practitioners, theorists, colleagues and KM customers determined the make-up of KMWorld Magazine's annual list, with the purpose being to generate a broader discussion of knowledge management. By including ISYS, KMWorld’s group acknowledges the company is one of the 100 vendors leading the way in knowledge management.

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With large internal data stores and a document repository with more than 6,000 reports, Alkemists Pharmaceuticals selected ISYS:desktop for its speed, accuracy and advanced features. More importantly, ISYS:desktop provides the company with the flexibility of custom-designed scripts, which are being used to automatically extract data from results sets and into a master report.

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As a global organization with more than 9,000 employees, Lend Lease operates in more than 40 countries. Like most organizations its size, Lend Lease produces a significant amount of work product and knowledge each year.

Recognizing the volume of its valuable corporate content, the company took a proactive approach to managing this information by establishing its ikonnect knowledge sharing service. Given the vast amount of information that ikonnect facilitators maintain, the team required an advanced search solution designed to enable rapid expertise location. To fulfill this need, Lend Lease selected the ISYS:desktop search solution for its ikonnect team.

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The fundamental objective of enterprise search couldn’t be more straightforward -- to help people find information fast. Unfortunately, some vendors continue to speak in tongues, proffering technology that requires a Ph.D. to understand and a team of them to implement.

The good news is companies are beginning to see the light—that search isn’t a difficult or costly endeavor. In fact, keeping in mind our three keys, businesses of all sizes can finally capitalize on the promise of enterprise search.

Click here to download and read this article by ISYS Founder Ian Davies.

A range of customers in different industries continue to join the ISYS community. This quarter we'd like to welcome the following new customers from around the world:

ISYS enables you to create a page that will load automatically when a user starts ISYS Query or when a particular index is selected. Two different types of pages can be created: the Banner Page and the Hypertext Front Page. The Banner Page is an ASCII text file that is useful for displaying a brief message or perhaps information about a particular index. The Hypertext Front Page is a valuable tool for displaying information about the index and for creating links to other documents that contain useful information.
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Last month we asked you to tell us how you plan to expand your use of search in 2005. A third of respondents stated they plan to incorporate desktop search software this year, while 22 percent said they would leverage search on their public websites.

These figures compare to the 17 percent of respondents who said they would implement search on their intranet. Only a small percentage of voters (11 percent) said they plan to roll out search across the entire enterprise, suggesting the demand for tactical search deployments is greater than enterprise-wide solutions.

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