CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - (Business Wire) Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, today announced a partnership with SMSi, a leader in providing data-management and IT solutions for the public sector. SMSi has integrated SMSi’s Twister Data Framework with the McKinley release of the Endeca Information Access Platform. Together, these technologies offer a complete solution for unifying structured and unstructured data from proprietary, government-specific databases, warehouses, and enterprise business systems, providing greater visibility across disparate information for improved daily decision-making within defense, intelligence, and homeland security agencies. “The most important trend in the search and BI markets today is the accelerating pace of their convergence,” said Hadley Reynolds, director, Search and Digital Marketplace Technologies, IDC. “Analysts in the intelligence community have long insisted on better integrated views of the information at their disposal – views that allow them to ‘see' structured transactional data and related unstructured content at the same time, on the same screen. Alliances like this one between Endeca and SMSi will accelerate the delivery of composite intelligence applications that help analysts connect the dots across the data sources.”
The partnership allows agencies to leverage industry standard software that is already integrated with many highly-specialized and often proprietary government data holdings and feeds to populate search applications based on Endeca’s Intelligence Discovery Solution. Customers who have the Twister Data Framework deployed can use the skills they already have in house. Customers who don’t can tap the large number of consultants already familiar with SMSi’s products. In all cases, Endeca’s rich feature set around semi-structured content acquisition and enrichment, recently enhanced with the Endeca Extend partner program, can be combined with SMSI’s existing offerings, reducing the time and costs associated with deploying Endeca’s search applications.
“The increasing growth rate of information, its diverse types and locations, and the scores of proprietary formats in which it can be found often put organizations that thrive on real-time data in a quandary,” said Lang Craighill, chief operating officer, SMSi. “By creating a seamless integration between our Twister Data Framework and Endeca’s platform, our customers can better access highly-valuable and intelligence-centric information assets, leveraging them for improved daily decision-making.”
“SMSi has a proven track record in helping agencies involved in defense, intelligence, and homeland security leverage their information assets to empower intelligence analysts,” said Jason Purcell, senior vice president of marketing and product management, Endeca. “This relationship benefits our joint and prospective customers in the intelligence and government sectors, and significantly decreases the implementation and operating costs of Endeca-powered solutions.”
About Endeca
Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search applications built on Endeca’s technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved information visibility, customers make better choices, and employees better decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
Endeca Technologies, Inc.
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