Pittsburgh Business Times: "Vivisimo uses employees’ expertise as teaching tool"
7-13 November 2008
By Beth Murtagh – At the monthly brown-bag lunches at Squirrel Hill-based Vivisimo Inc., anyone from a senior engineer to still-in-art-school-designer can have the floor for an hour to teach their sandwich-munching colleagues something new.
KM World: "Search Gets Personal"
15 October 2008
The company claims that by making the process of modifying searches more transparent and giving more control over that process to users, Velocity 7.0 helps produce better, more satisfying results. Other implementations that hide the search modification process behind an "engine-knows-best" facade produce less relevant results and more frustrated users.
GCN: "Velocity 7.0 will let users tailor Web searches"
14 October 2008
By Trudy Walsh - Velocity 7.0 uses conceptual search technology, which gives users the option of choosing between a precise search for specific documents or searching for all information related to their query, according to Vivisimo officials.
eContent: "Enterprise Search Picks up Steam with Velocity 7.0"
14 October 2008
By Kinley Levack - A year ago, when Vivisimo launched Velocity 6.0, it focused heavily on incorporating collaborative features into the enterprise search solution. This time around, as Vivisimo today launches Velocity 7.0 "the theme is conceptual search—it’s about discovery and personalization," says Rebecca Thompson, vice president of marketing.
eWeek: "5 Technology Businesses Poised to Boom in the Financial Crisis"
06 October 2008
By Chris Preimesberger - Vivisimo is listed among enterprise search companies in this article on IT companies that are in a good position to profit during “a recession or economic downturn in the wake of the Wall Street financial crisis. Risk management, e-discovery, enterprise search, e-mail archiving, and secure and managed file transfers are all positioned for a boom as the business and financial sector call on their unique services more than ever."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Gathering next week helps local businesses with an interest in international trade"
3 September 2008
Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors to honor Vivisimo with a 2008 International Bridge Award, in the emerging commerce category, for hosting international visitors on behalf of regional economic development groups.
Intranet Journal: "Vivisimo Cures Biomedical Library's Search Woes"
24 July 2008
Intranet Journal, a comprehensive news source for enterprise IT solutions, recently posted a Vivisimo case study on a customer, the National Library of Medicine. The case study details how Vivisimo won a competitive bidding process, helping NLM improve relevancy of results and user satisfaction with the Velocity Search Platform.
InformationWeek: "Government Search Engine Expands With Vivisimo"
26 June 2008
By K.C. Jones – Vivisimo, an enterprise search company, on Thursday announced that it has expanded its search affiliate program, which offers a free search engine for all government Web sites. The search indexes more than 50 million government documents.
Government Health IT: "HHS upgrades search tech on women's health site"
3 June 2008
By John Moore – A Web site run by the Health and Human Services Department's Office on Women's Health has adopted a new search engine that aims to speed the delivery of pertinent information. The site, Womenshealth.gov, now uses search technology from Vivisimo.
Forbes.com: "Titan Wars – Searching The Enterprise"
2 June 2008
By Raul Valdes-Perez – Vivisimo’s CEO writes for Forbes.com that, "Just as search is the universal information gateway on the Web, it will also become the universal gateway to corporate repositories." He adds that Google’s and Microsoft’s size is not dominant in the enterprise, where, "Speed, innovation, service and some humility will help more than large pocketbooks."
Information Today: "Insider's Perspective – The Search Gap"
May 2008
By Jerome Pesenti – The web has created high standards for usability; enterprise applications need to match and even surpass that standard. Pay attention to little details: breadcrumbs, tabs, default syntax, overall look and feel, and UI personalization, writes the chief scientist and co-founder of Vivisimo as he discusses why enterprise search lags consumer web search and offers solutions to close the gap between them.
Government Computer News: "Wyatt Kash | A search with depth
Editor’s Desk—commentary: USASearch.gov is revolutionizing how government Web sites serve the public."
26 May 2008
By Wyatt Kash - By making it easier for visitors to find this information, regardless of whether they started at a federal, state or local site, this simple but powerful search tool is effectively unlocking vast stores of government information. That’s what I call tax dollars well spent.
Government Computer News: "Widgets to the rescue – USASearch.gov aims to make agency info easier to find with new spotlight tool"
26 May 2008
By Wyatt Kash - The new plug-in applications, developed for USASearch.gov by Vivisimo, are ... designed to address a frequent failure of search engines tethered to agency Web sites: getting often-sought government information and services to appear prominently in the search results.
eWEEK: "Vivisimo Spruces Up Social Search with Discovery"
20 May 2008
By Clint Boulton - The company enhances the social collaboration technologies in its Velocity search platform for businesses.
Beyond Search: "Vivisimo's Founders Interviewed: Raul Valdes-Perez and Jerome Pesenti"
21 March 2008
Stephen Arnold wanted to learn more from Raul Valdes-Perez and Jerome Pesenti, the founders of Vivísimo — more about their plans, technology, and views on the industry.
Red Herring: "Searching the Enterprise"
9 March 2008
Joel Dreyfuss sits down with Vivisimo CEO Raul Valdes-Perez to discuss the emerging field of enterprise search.
KM Space: "Knowledge Management with Folksonomies and Tagging"
16 February 2008
The tagging in Vivisimo gives you ability to enhance the findability of the knowledge artifacts inside the law firm and find out more about the people inside the
law firm.
Intranets: "Searching for Mobile Access"
15 January 2008
Learn how Velocity for Mobile is helping workers become more productive — even when they are on the road and away from their computers.
InfoWorld: "InfoWorld – 2008 Technology of the Year Awards"
8 January 2008
Vivisimo Velocity 6.0 is selected as the Best Enterprise Search Engine for 2008.
