Canada-based Infrastructures for Information Inc. (i4i) will unveil a new
multi-server search engine at the XML 2000 show in Washington, D. C. next
month.
Code-named Alice, the product conducts XML searches of mulitple data
repositories fitted with any architecture when
combined with i4i’s S4/TEXT™.
Such capability will boost productivity by eliminating time-consuming
searches for existing corporate information through multiple internal and
external repositories, as well as duplication of effort in recreating
information.
Alice was tailored for employees who repeatedly find themselves delving into
their companies’ search engines for charts, spreadsheets, or even contracts.
Alice breaks this cycle by turning Microsoft Word into a browser that can
search multiple corporate network
servers for the files containing the information they need. Important files
can be book-marked so that the end-user can find them again at will,
creating their own personalized map of the corporate information they use.
Alice also keeps track of which information is being used, much the same way
Internet hit counters do so managers
can see which corporate documents are accessed most often.
i4i, whose customers include Alcatel Networks Corp. and Compaq Computer
Corp., provides content creation and collaboration technology solutions for
the enterprises through a combination of Microsoft Word, existing e-mail
systems and the Web.
i4i’s S4 DataPipe&$153; suite features products that permit information
sharing among different computer applications by accessing and manipulating
document content using XML and it’s forbearer SGML. One such DataPipe is the
S4/TEXT, which has been bundled with Alice.
