ISYS announces MOSS 2007 integration and support for Interwoven WorkSite
To ensure our customers derive maximum benefit from their use of ISYS, we're continually striving to round out our content coverage and provide customers with the ability to leverage ISYS in their primary environments. To that end, we have announced both support for searching Interwoven WorkSite content and the ability to integrate ISYS:web into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.

In doing so, law firms, engineering firms, standard corporate environments and more will be able to further extend their use of ISYS. In the case of MOSS 2007, ISYS picks up where MOSS' built-in search leaves off, providing you with the ability to navigate categories, discover new connections via ISYS Entities detection capabilities, monitor search performance and trends, and conduct advanced Boolean and proximity queries.

And through our Interwoven WorkSite connector, customers can now include this valuable content in their ISYS collections, thus enabling end-users to search across all of their corporate content with a single search. You can learn more about these additions by visiting the following links.

- ISYS announces integration with Microsoft SharePoint

- ISYS introduces new connector for Interwoven WorkSite

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City University of New York integrates ISYS with its dynamic content system
As the largest urban public university in the United States, The City University of New York (CUNY) is home to an academic community of stunning diversity. Given the size and complexity of the University, it is imperative that the entire CUNY community be aware of, and involved in, decision-making processes and their outcomes. As part of the continuing efforts to further integrate the diverse constituencies and units within CUNY, the University undertook the creation of a website to disseminate University-wide policy documents.

The Policy Documents Site (PDS) was envisioned as a central source of secondary consolidated policy documents, interpreting documents and the minutes of CUNY's Board of Trustees. From the beginning it was apparent that developing the online user interface for this database would be a considerable challenge.  A critical component of this interface would be a search function with a combination of features found in several different search engines. CUNY turned to ISYS to provide these capabilities.

Read more about how CUNY leveraged ISYS for this content system.

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Working with ISYS Entities
Some call it entity extraction. Others refer to it as entity detection. We call it ISYS Entities, and you can find this capability in your current ISYS 8 release (contact us if you haven't yet upgraded).

Designed to highlight the "Who, What and Where?" of your search results, ISYS Entities detects and highlights the most commonly recurring people, locations, organizations, email address and websites found in association with your search terms. In doing so, we provide your users with the ability to discover connections and learn more about your valued corporate content, as well as find subject matter experts who can further help them with their current projects and content needs.

Fire up ISYS:desktop 8 and run a few searches. You'll find ISYS Entities in the lower-left navigation area of ISYS Query. From here, you can drill down by clicking any of the named entities. For usability purposes, you can also collapse and expand ISYS Entities or any of the entity categories, enabling you to focus solely on the areas that matter most to your current interest.

Right-click on any of these named entities, and ISYS presents you with a host of options, including the ability to run subsequent searches (either full-text or metadata searches), or in the case of People or Email entities, send them an email or add them to your contacts. ISYS also gives you the ability to remove a named entity from a particular category should you find it doesn't fit (e.g., King Street as a location, not an 18th century monarch).

We designed ISYS Entities to be extensible so that your users can gain the greatest benefit from this capability. ISYS Entities is also available for ISYS:web 8 and ISYS:sdk 8. We invite you to contact us should you have any questions or wish to learn more about ISYS Entities.

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Our dedicated software developers here at ISYS have not sat idle since the release of ISYS 8, and our recent tech announcements support just how busy the team has been. In addition to the Interwoven and SharePoint news mentioned in this issue's Spotlight, the team is putting the finishing touches on a handful of other technology enhancements, so stay tuned for details on that front.

Not to be outdone, our sales and marketing teams have been garnering several new deals and accolades, the highlights of which we proudly list below. Read on:

	Rodriguez Laboratory at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Selects ISYS:desktop. More
	ISYS Extends Penetration of UK Legal Market With Signing of Law Firm Carey Olsen. More
	Burwood Council Selects ISYS to Access Enterprise-Wide Information. More
	ISYS Top-Ranked Among E-Discovery Software Providers in Socha-Gelbmann Survey. More
	RailCorp Keeps Moving With ISYS:web. More

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