ISYS Update
April 2007 -- Volume 10, Issue 1
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Spotlight: Leveraging search for e-discovery

Recent Success: Children's Heart Center & ISYS

Tech Tips: Configuring SharePoint indexes

Highlights: Our latest customers, events & more

Riddle: Clear out the cobwebs with this cipher


Spotlight

 

Leveraging Search for E-Discovery Compliance
Whether you're an attorney preparing for complex litigation or a CIO scrambling to ensure your organization is in compliance with the latest amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, you're most certainly concerned about your e-discovery capabilities. And when it comes to satisfying some of the core components of e-discovery, it's clear that enterprise search and retrieval software plays a critical role.

Our new paper provides you with an understanding of how the ISYS 8 suite of search, navigation and discovery software complements your e-discovery solution, ensuring you have easy-to-use tools for instantly pinpointing precise information or culling valuable collections of content.

Download it today.

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Recent Success

 

Children's Heart Center Taps ISYS for Intranet
On a daily basis, physicians, business partners and staff members at Children’s Heart Center access the practice’s intranet, where the CHC houses more than 200,000 documents. Every aspect of its practice relies upon the intranet for important information. Everything the CHC does to serve its patients is located here, including access to patient records, educational articles, billing history, etc. “We live on it,” said Charles Kimble, information technologies manager, CHC.

According to Kimble, Google was not the answer because of its inability to provide the flexibility and functionality that a search engine on CHC’s intranet required. An additional handful of enterprise search companies were also consulted and evaluated. Kimble eventually selected ISYS Search Software’s ISYS:web 8 because it was best suited for the center’s needs.

Read more about the CHC's use of ISYS.

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Tech Tips

 

Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Indexes
Among the many new features we announced during our ISYS 8 launch last September was the ability to index Microsoft SharePoint. Many of our customers have turned to SharePoint for document management purposes, and it was important for them to include these repositories in their collection of searchable content.

Today's Tech Tip outlines the six easy steps to creating your SharePoint indexes. To begin, open up ISYS Utilities and follow these instructions:

Step 1: Open an index that you want to add SharePoint rules to, or create a new blank index using the wizard.

Step 2: Click on Document Management Systems under Advanced Indexing. Then click on the "Create a new DMS indexing rule" link.

Step 3: Choose “Windows SharePoint Services” and click Next. Then click Next again.

Visit our website to read the remaining steps and view screenshots to see how it's done.

NEW: ISYS can now be integrated directly into SharePoint, thus giving your organization and its employees the ability to use ISYS directly within your SharePoint interface. Email us to find out how.

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Highlights

 

Fast on the heels of our ISYS 8 release and designation as a Challenger on Gartner's latest Information Access Magic Quadrant is more great news to share with you all. Our highlights from recent months include several new customers, technology partners and industry recognition. Read on:

Columbia University Medical Center using ISYS to search regulatory files and medical studies. More

Linetime Ltd. and ISYS form partnership to offer joint solutions to the legal marketplace. More

Solcara and ISYS partner to deliver enterprise search solutions to European organizations. More

Midas leveraging ISYS to enable search across its corporate extranet. More

University of Sydney taps ISYS:desktop. More

ISYS named to the EContent 100 list. More

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Riddle

 

In a contest, four fruits (an apple, a banana, an orange, and a pear) have been placed in four closed boxes (one fruit per box). People may guess which fruit is in which box. 123 people participate in the contest. When the boxes are opened, it turns out that 43 people have guessed none of the fruits correctly, 39 people have guessed one fruit correctly, and 31 people have guessed two fruits correctly.

How many people have guessed three fruits correctly, and how many people have guessed four fruits correctly?

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ISYS Named to KM100 for Fifth Straight Year

For the fifth consecutive year, ISYS was named to KMWorld's "100 Companies That Matter In Knowledge Management." Learn more.

Reader Survey
What type of communication do you find most useful when researching new products?

Be sure to check the next issue of ISYS Update for the results of this survey.

Last issue's results:
In the previous issue of ISYS Update, we asked you which ISYS query method you use most frequently -- Natural Language, Web Style, Menu-Assisted or Command Based.

Results this time around were fairly evenly split across all four options. Narrowly edging out the others for the top spot was Natural Language. Jeeves The Butler would be pleased!

Despite jumping out to the early lead, Menu-Assisted Query fell to #3 by the time the polls closed, just barely dropping the #2 spot to Web Style. The method used least frequently was Command Based.

Have a great idea for a poll? We'd love to hear from you, so please email us your ideas.

Hitting the Speaking Circuit

We're beginning to believe there's a secret society in charge of creating the tech industry's event calendar, because it would seem that some gremlins have conspired to ensure that 75% of 2007's conferences are packed into the fourth week of April.

All of which is to say that the week of April 23 will be a busy one for your friends at ISYS. Fortunately, some of our customers have agreed to lend a hand by joining us on the speaking circuit as we hit three different events during this week.

In Boston, our very own Terry Clift (painter, wine connoisseur and ISYS' general manager of global operations) will be speaking on the topic of Business Intelligence and Search at the 2007 Search Engine Meeting, hosted by the fine folks at Infonortics. The conference kicks off on Monday, April 23, and Terry will deliver his topic on that Tuesday.

Down in Phoenix, ISYS customer Ritchie Martinez of the Arizona HIDTA Center will speak to the audiences at Delphi Group's ii2007 conference. As a longtime customer of ISYS, Ritchie will outline his experience with search technology and its many uses in the law enforcement field. Ritchie gives his presentation on Wednesday, April 25.

At the end of the week, another ISYS customer will be speaking in Amsterdam at the European Text Analytics Summit. Burch Kealey of the University of Nebraska will be making the long trek to discuss going beyond basic search to derive even great value from your content. Burch will deliver his speech on Friday, April 27.

We have a tabletop display at the Search Engine Meeting in Boston, where we'll be demonstrating the latest and greatest features of ISYS 8. Additionally, ISYS representatives will be on hand at all three events, so don't hesitate to stop us and introduce yourself. We might just have one of our highly sought-after ISYS pens or golf balls for you!


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