Ultra-relevant search. - Ultra-easy implementation. - Ultra-affordable ownership.

Businesses, governments and other organizations today enjoy access to more information than ever before. Inside the enterprise, the online documents, spreadsheets, presentations and Web pages that contain high-value intellectual capital are growing exponentially. Outside the enterprise, partners, competitors, suppliers and online publishers con-tinuously post new and updated content to literally millions of websites every day.

When your employees and customers have the tools to quickly locate the exact content they need, information becomes your greatest asset. But without these tools, this wealth of information turns into a liability. The high value content on intranets gets lost among worthless and out-dated information, forcing employees to sift through volumes of irrelevant docu-ments and webpages to find what they need. Or customers who can’t find what they’re looking for on your website become frustrated and jump to competitor sites. Time is lost searching, work is duplicated, decisions are based on out-of-date information, and opportunities are missed.

For enterprises of any size whose intellectual capital management requirements call for a pure search engine, Verity Ultraseek is the solu-tion of choice. It can be downloaded, installed and searching in a mat-ter of minutes. And its set-and-forget administration frees up your IT resources to do more elsewhere, while your employees and customers are able to work both smarter and faster.

Ultra-relevant Search
Verity Ultraseek delivers superior relevance and a rich end-user experience that quickly locates information across your enterprise and beyond. With little or no customization, one- and two-word queries return extremely relevant results, while selectable options let you enhance result list presentation and functionality to meet specific end-user needs.

Superior Relevance
End-users quickly find the right information with one- and two-word queries thanks to Verity Ultraseek’s high out-of-the-box relevance. Search options include keyword, phrase, wildcard, field, range, implied Boolean and advanced operators. Relevance is determined through an optimized combination of enhanced linguistics techniques, stemming, link analysis, and weighting based on term location, frequency, and rar-ity. Thesauri and custom dictionaries can also be integrated to support specific industries and business objectives.

Intelligent Indexing
Enterprise information is typically found in hundreds of document formats that are spread across Web servers, file systems, secure sys-tems, and other repositories. They may be written in one language or many, depending on the content, the company and the country. Verity Ultraseek’s intelligent, adaptive spider indexes all of this content into a common Ultraseek Index that makes it searchable with a single query. Ultraseek can even spider Javascript, allowing it to find and index dynamically generated Web pages. Structured and unstructured informa-tion sources can also be brought together in the index through Ultraseek’s optional lightweight database connectivity.

Relevance Tuning and Editorial Control
Verity Ultraseek’s search results can be fine-tuned to match information structure and end-user needs with relevance tuning options that deliver comprehensive control over the relative weighting of metadata fields.

In addition, Ultraseek’s exclusive Quick Links feature provides editorial control over search results, allowing keywords to be manually associated with specific URLs that are returned above normal search results. For example, a query for “printer” on an e-commerce site could return a Quick Link as the first result, directing users to the “Buy This Printer” page.

Contextual Summaries
End-users can quickly determine the context of query terms in Verity Ultraseek results lists by scanning document descriptions created by intelligently extracting relevant passages in matching documents. This both accelerates the information discovery process and reduces load on your network by allowing users to identify the most relevant documents without actually having to open and read them.

Spelling Suggest
Many unsuccessful searches are the result of incorrectly spelled query terms. Verity Ultraseek automatically suggests alternative spellings for misspelled queries, using a dictionary dynamically built from the index. This can dramatically increase user satisfaction in information environ-ments with complex terminology, and decrease abandoned shopping carts on ecommerce sites by ensuring customers find products even if they aren’t sure of their spelling.

“No-hits” Forwarding
Getting no results to a query can be just as bad as getting too many. End-users can broaden searches that don’t return any results by clicking less restrictive queries that are automatically presented by Verity Ultraseek.

Results Grouping by Site
Grouping results by website or file folder location helps users quickly sort through results list to locate the most relevant information for the task at hand. It can also save time in the future by showing end-users which sites or folders are the most useful sources of information.

Automatic Title Replacement
Most documents created in the day-to-day business of a company either have no title listed in their properties or metadata, inherit titles from previous documents or have titles that are intelligible to most users. Verity Ultraseek can intelligently replace incorrect or missing document titles with meaningful, automatically generated titles to help users find the right document faster.

Language support
Business today is becoming increasingly international, requiring the ability to access information in various languages. Verity Ultraseek sup-ports complete grammatical and lexical analysis of multiple languages, including localized interfaces and support for Unicode character sets. Available language modules include:

Ultra-easy implementation
One of the key advantages of Verity Ultraseek is its rapid deployment. Ultraseek can be downloaded and installed in a matter of minutes to meet even the most demanding rollout schedules. Although it comes pre-con-figured to deliver superior relevancy in most information environments, it can also be customized quickly and easily to meet specific business objectives. Ultraseek’s robust Java API, Web services interface and port-lets for most leading portal vendors make it easy to integrate it into your existing information framework.

Web Services
Integration of search into mixed application environments is simplified by Verity Ultraseek’s Web services interface. Both the .NET and J2EE plat-forms are supported, as are Ultraseek’s full range of advanced features, such as spelling suggest, document highlighting and contextual summaries.

Java API
The available Verity Ultraseek XPA Search API provides easy integration into existing information frameworks via a well-documented Java API.

Pre-built Portlets
Fast, straightforward integration of search into existing portal, content management and other systems is enabled with pre-built portlets to BEA, Vignette, TIBCO and IBM WebSphere. These allow you to quickly enhance the return on your current technology investments by improving its usability and performance with better search functionality.

Upgrade Wizard
The Upgrade Wizard extends investments Verity Information Server (VIS) customers have made in their search applications by providing a quick, straightforward upgrade to Verity Ultraseek. During the Ultraseek implementation process, the wizard automatically detects VIS configura-tion settings and mirrors them in Ultraseek’s setup.

Layout Manager
Rapid deployment of multiple search interfaces and result pages is enabled by Verity Ultraseek’s Layout Manager, an easy-to-use browser-based GUI. This reduces administrative overhead, allows you to delegate control to business-line managers, and easily manage all aspects of your interface design and features, including:

Downloadable Software
Because Verity Ultraseek is downloaded directly from www.verity.com, you can install, crawl and start searching with Ultraseek in a matter of minutes. There are no installation CDs or hardware to order, and you can even download and install Ultraseek as a free, 30-day trial version.

Ultra-affordable ownership
Compared with other search engines and appliances, Verity Ultraseek delivers extremely low ongoing administration and overhead. Its solid, stable and reliable architecture has been proven to deliver extremely low ongoing administrative overhead by thousands of successful imple-mentations. An intuitive browser-based GUI provides the flexibility to control the entire search process, so you can centrally manage distrib-uted deployments, and “set-and-forget,” or monitor usage and tweak settings to fine-tune results. Ultraseek’s extreme scalability also allows it to grow with your business to support more users, information and concurrent queries.

Set-and-Forget
Verity Ultraseek’s architecture has been proven solid, stable and reliable by thousands of successful implementations. Once Ultraseek is up and running, administrators can set-and-forget it.

Distributed Administration
The easy-to-use, browser-based Layout Manager allows you to delegate administration to business-line managers, including all aspects of your interface design.

Reporting Manager
The Verity Ultraseek Reporting Manager generates detailed reports that analyze search usage and provide insights into how you can improve rel-evance in real time. Standard reports include: