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."
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