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New Desktop Search Performs Federated Searches to Speed Legal Discovery and Audit Requests
Prodiance Search Integrates Business Critical Information Across End-users Desktops, Emails, Web Sites, Peer PCs, Shared Drives, and Other Enterprise Applications
Pleasanton, Calif., September 21, 2005
Prodiance Corporation, a world leader in delivering solutions and best practices for building visibility and trust in your organization’s business critical data, and control for compliance-driven business processes, today announced Prodiance Search, a new productivity solution that helps business users find critical information through federated searches across disparate content sources.
“Today’s knowledge workers are overwhelmed by the ever-increasing amount of documents and information building up on personal PCs, in email accounts, on peer PCs, and in the abyss of corporate shared drives and enterprise applications,” said Dr. Soheil Saadat, president and CEO of Prodiance Corporation. “Prodiance Search is an easy-to-use, yet powerful search solution that integrates all of this information by enabling users to perform federated searches. Through a single query, information locked away in content silos is integrated into one results page where users can act upon it to make key business decisions.”
Federated Searching is Key Differentiator
What sets Prodiance Search apart from other desktop search engines is its ability to search peer PCs, network shared drives, content and document management repositories, and other enterprise applications. Although the application installs on a user’s desktop, it leverages a powerful federated search broker that issues search queries to local indexes running on other PCs.
Key Features
Prodiance Search incorporates a powerful feature set, including:
- Federated searching of files on user’s PCs, within emails and email attachments, on corporate shared drives, on peer PCs, on web sites, and in 3rd party applications such as Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems, CRM applications, and ERP databases.
- Built-in security configured by individual users to specify appropriate levels of file sharing.
- Powerful metadata generation via drop-in file filters, including support for 3rd party iFilters built to the Microsoft iFilter specification.
- Full text, keyword & value searches with highlighting of keyword hits.
- Automated and on-demand indexing updates.
- Relevance ranking and document pre-view within search results.
- View, copy/paste or select Go To Folder Location for search results to instantly leverage corporate knowledge assets.
- Seamless integration with Microsoft® Windows® and Internet Explorer.
- Saved searches and search history.
- Configurable indexing utilizes idle CPU cycles for optimal performance.
- Support for multiple file formats, including office documents, images, audio and video files, text files, ZIP and PDF files, web pages, XML, XSL, email messages, MIME, and many others.
- Expandable connector framework for searching 3rd party content and document management repositories and 3rd party applications (e.g. ECM, CRM, ERP, etc.).
- Platforms supported: Windows 2000, XP & XP SP2
Speeding eDiscovery and Audit Requests
Many organizations struggle with responding in a timely manner to legal discovery and audit requests at the risk of fines and damaged reputations. With Prodiance Search, the processes of discovering what information exists within an organization's IT infrastructure can be accelerated through silent indexing of remote PCs, internal and external web sites, and corporate shared drives. Once all of the content is indexed, it can be found through keyword, value and full-text searches and quickly burned to CD or DVD and incorporated into legal evidence binders.
Increased Productivity, More Efficient Use of Corporate Knowledge Assets
“By using Prodiance Search, organizations will spend less time re-creating information that already exists both within and beyond their network, resulting in the unification of key information residing in disparate content silos, more effective re-use of corporate information assets and increased productivity,” said Eric Perry, vice president of marketing at Prodiance.
Availability
Prodiance Search will ship to customers in both stand-alone (single-user desktop) and federated (enterprise) configurations in late October 2005. A 30-day free evaluation version of the stand-alone configuration can be downloaded immediately on the Prodiance web site at www.prodiance.com. For more information visit the Prodiance web site, send an email to contact@prodiance.com or phone 866.569.5678.
Prodiance PR Contact:
Eric Perry
(866) 569.5678
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