Cincom Partners with Verity to Deliver Full-Text Search and Retrieval Capabilities to Electronic Document Management Suite
PR Newswire, Wednesday, October 14, 1998 at 08:47
CINCINNATI, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Cincom Systems, Inc., a leading provider of automated document assembly and production solutions, and Verity(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:VRTY), a leading provider of knowledge retrieval solutions for the enterprise and the Internet, today announced a partnership agreement to integrate Verity's comprehensive search and retrieval technology into Cincom's AuroraDS(R) product suite. Through this OEM partnership, Cincom will integrate the Verity Developer Kit (VDK), an advanced full-text search and retrieval engine, into AuroraDS Archive, a document management and imaging system with capabilities for structured and full-text search and retrieval. The Windows(R) and Sun Solaris- based product suite can store digital images, photographs, maps, text and spreadsheets. It also provides a COLD capability. "This partnership certainly now positions Cincom as a leader in the document creation, production and management arena, enabling us to deliver the comprehensive and innovative business solutions required by leading organizations around the world," said Thomas Nies, Cincom's President and CEO. "Verity's technology adds a natural extension to the functionality of AuroraDS." With the Verity Developer Kit, Cincom customers now gain Verity's full- featured query language and broad range of facilities, including full text and metadata search, concept-based search (Topics), results list clustering, term highlighting, relevancy ranking, document summarization and query by example. "We're delighted to be working with a proven provider of high-performance document systems such as Cincom," said Ronald Weissman, Verity's Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development. "Our customizable and cross- platform indexing search and retrieval system combined with Cincom's advanced document management and imaging products provide a state-of-the-art solution for electronic document management and a foundation for our mutual customers to search, retrieve and manage business documents and data." |