15 December 2005
EBSCO Focuses Search Efforts Around Endeca
Endeca, provider of Guided Navigation, Search and Analysis solutions announced today that EBSCO Subscription Services, a division of EBSCO Information Services, and MetaPress, a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., have selected the Endeca platform to power search, navigation and Content Spotlighting of multiple customer-facing applications.
EBSCO Information Services provides libraries and research centres with online and print journal subscription services, e-resource access and management services, full-text and secondary database development and access, an OpenURL-compliant link resolver, online book purchasing and related information services. EBSCO maintains a title database of more than 300,000 title listings and upholds relationships with more than 78,000 publishers around the world.
EBSCO’s MetaPress division offers publishers of scholarly journals a comprehensive solution to their Web publishing needs. MetaPress provides an established way to publish e-books and other publisher material electronically regardless of present content or current format. Services include content management, Web hosting, branded Web site development and e-commerce support.
The customer-facing applications will leverage Endeca’s ability to quickly index and make accessible data and content from multiple IBM DB2 databases on EBSCO’s IBM S/390 mainframe servers.
“We were impressed with Endeca’s advanced search, Guided Navigation and Content Spotlighting capabilities,” said John Fitts, vice president and general manager of EBSCO’s Information Systems and Services department. “The Endeca platform will help deliver a compelling user experience while providing simple, powerful tools to create and configure new applications. Endeca was the only vendor we looked at that could offer this combination.”
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