Attivio Announces Embedded AIE(TM)

NEWTON, Mass., April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Attivio, Inc. today announced the release of its Embedded AIE (Active Intelligence Engine(TM)). Embedded AIE is the first search engine specifically designed from the ground up for the OEM Search market. Attivio designed Embedded AIE around three key criteria: configuration, integration and performance. The result is a product that is efficient, easy to use and reliable while providing simple integration, true incremental scalability and a tiny footprint.

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"The amount of content that is generated within the enterprise is growing exponentially," said Sue Feldman, research vice president, content technologies group at IDC. "In today's information-centric environment, the solutions that will help organizations succeed must include search as an integral and strategic component of their applications so that their customers can get to their content when they need it."

    Major features and benefits of Embedded AIE include:

    -- Efficiency - The Embedded AIE core occupies less than 10MB of disk
       without compromising search functionality because of its modular
       architecture. It can index 100 million documents per server, with the
       index typically 20 to 40 percent of the source data. As a single Java
       instance, it is easy to install, configure and deploy.

    -- Intelligent Facet Discovery - Embedded AIE automatically selects,
       calculates and displays the most relevant facets on the fly with no
       pre-computing or re-indexing required.

    -- Developer Network - All functionality is accessible through the
       Developer FIRST(TM) API, a programming interface designed by engineers,
       for engineers. Included with the API are a complete SDK, developer
       extranet, task-oriented documentation, sample front-end code and
       integration logic, and a library of configurations for a range of
       common uses.

    -- Flexible Processing Model - Embedded AIE enables complete control for
       processing complex content, queries and results (e.g. email
       attachments, ZIP files). Users can create conditional and looped
       process workflows that can call out to external systems or trigger
       events along the way.

    -- Full Search Experience - Embedded AIE offers a complete range of search
       features such as spell-correction, stemming, synonym expansion, stop
       word removal, fielded queries, proximity, zero-result handling and
       multi-variant relevancy boosting (by field, freshness, completeness,
       etc.). Embedded AIE also supports entity extraction, clustering,
       multiple thesauri and ACL ingestion for a secure search environment.

    -- True Structured Data Ingestion - Embedded AIE can stream database
       content into its engine directly, dynamically joining the tables within
       the engine rather than executing pre-defined SQL queries that require
       the source database to execute expensive JOIN operations.

"For many ISVs, search can be a conundrum; they know they need it, but until now they have had to sacrifice the speed and performance of their core technology in order to deliver it," said Ali Riaz, Attivio's Chief Executive Officer. "At Attivio, we have created an embedded product that not only addresses these concerns, but includes advanced functionality to enhance the customer experience, providing a true competitive differentiator for our partners' products. By embracing a flexible, scalable and easy-to-implement search engine, our ISV partners can focus on the value their applications bring to their customers, not on sustaining the underlying search technology."

Attivio's CTO, Sid Probstein added, "This release is the culmination of ideas from some of the best engineers in the industry. We focused on the functional and architectural issues we felt mattered most to the OEM Search customer-that really had to be developed from product inception to work. Some of these features aren't glamorous-such as document density, footprint and true incremental scalability-but we knew they were extremely important to our market. Others, we know are ground-breaking-dynamic facet generation, for instance, and our approach to ingesting structured data."

Availability

Embedded AIE is available immediately. For more information, please contact Adam Haight at 857.226.5048 or ahaight@attivio.com or visit http://www.attivio.com/embaie.aspx.

About Attivio

Attivio is an enterprise software company operating in the information fabric/infrastructure market. By integrating structured data and unstructured content into a single universal index, Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) brings together the precision of SQL and the fuzziness of search, automatically updating, managing and enriching business systems. By providing the right information to the right system at the right time, Attivio is driving the shift from finding information to using information and helping companies conduct better business. The engine is easy to install, always downloadable, linearly scalable and perfect for both custom solutions and application embedding. Please visit us at http://www.attivio.com.