April 16-20, 2012 - Lyon, France

WWW2012 is THE yearly international conference on the World Wide Web future direction. It aims to provide the world a premier forum for discussion and debate about the Web evolution in a broad sense.

The LT-Innovate Company Showcase Awards also took place during the Summit, with the companies taking part assessed and scored on their contributions to language technology innovations; the top-rated companies were presented with their awards during the gala dinner that concluded the day's events, and were as follows…
Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D design, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Cape Town, South Africa and the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research, inaugurated an Innovation Centre for PLM Education on CPUT's campus in Bellville.
Netvibes is Dassault Systèmes' fourth acquisition in two years. In June 2010 it paid around €135 million (US$160 million) for enterprise search engine EXALEAD, and in 2011 bought production validation software vendor Intercim for $36.5 million, before snapping up Enginuity PLM, a maker of software for the pharmaceuticals manufacturing industry.
"With the birth of the real-time Web, companies need to adapt to everything and everyone inside and outside their borders. To accomplish this, we need a way to connect and combine different products and uses, internal and external data sources, personal and professional apps, and human curation and algorithms—across all devices and departments, in real-time and in context,” said Bernard Charlès, President and CEO, Dassault Systèmes. “Netvibes' Dashboard Intelligence technology makes this possible.”
Dassault Systèmes will enhance its search based application, EXALEAD, and social commmunity based solution, 3DSWYM, in order to get the competency in the PLM market. "In terms of EXALEAD, BI function will be added in order to offer businesses to manage product information easily" YoungBin Cho added "One of the domestic manufacturers is actually considering the adoption of EXALEAD."
"What is the major trend in enterprise search and content processing for 2012?"
G.G: "Enterprise search is different from web search because lots of information is in unstructured sources. The current trend is to include both internal and external information in searches, so there is a growing body of linked data available. People want to know everything about what is going on both inside and outside the enterprise.[…]"
"What do you consider to be the most significant challenge facing the web industry? What web search obstacles have yet to be cleared?"
F.B: "I consider the rise of the mobile Internet to be one of the today’s most significant challenges, yet it’s a topic about which we hear too little. As users increasingly access services via devices powered by the likes of iOS and Android, to name just the two most prominent platforms, Web technologies begin to lose their importance, and the Web itself to lose its universal character.[...]"
Het door Dassault Systèmes overgenomen EXALEAD kan de vraag bijna niet aan. Sinds de overname in 2010 loopt het aantal 'orders' voor de zoekmachinesoftware enorm op en komen er steeds meer Aziatische bedrijven in het klantenbedrijf, zegt ceo Laurent Couillard.
Leveraging its partnership with Dassault Systemes, NovaQuest VisiQuity combines EXALEAD® CloudView™, a platform for search-based applications, with NovaQuest developed information management functions.
VisiQuity is built on top of the EXALEAD CloudView search based application platform. With that platform comes the ability to search any database, content repository, web site or on-line social medium, retrieving that content for use in delivering enterprise information and creating composite documents.
At the 49th Paris Air Show, Dassault Aviation showcased the latest digital prototype specially designed for flight attendants and mechanics. The searching application development platform provided by EXALEAD, the sub brand of Dassault Systemes, played an important role in the successful launch of this prototype.
In an interview with Stephen E. Arnold last month, EXALEAD CEO Laurent Couillard shared his vision for Search-Based Applications and his take on the synergies between EXALEAD and Dassault Systèmes. We invite you to enjoy the discussion.
I think magic is important. Dassault EXALEAD has some, but the company is diversifying its technology across high profile, high value enterprise challenges, not just search. I don’t see too many vendors getting a gig in Las Vegas with information retrieval showmanship.
Dassault Systèmes announced today that its subsidiary, EXALEAD, a global provider of search and information access software for the enterprise and the Web, has renewed its agreement with Altares, a leading provider of information about businesses to support financial, marketing and operational decision-making.
Organizations are increasingly storing vast amounts of unstructured data in new Hadoop, NoSQL, and MPP analytic databases, and business intelligence tools are getting better about connecting with them.
In late April 2011, I spoke with Francois Bourdoncle, one of the founders of EXALEAD. EXALEAD was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 2010. The French firm is one of the world’s premier engineering and technology products and services companies.
"EXALEAD and Basis Technology Partnership Extends Capabilities of EXALEAD Information Access Platform to Asian and Middle Eastern Languages" describes the recent pairing of the search firms, owners of CloudView EL and Rosette, respectively.
EXALEAD, a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065) (PARIS: DSY), and Basis Technology today announced a partnership that integrates Basis Technology's Rosette® linguistics platform into the newly released EXALEAD CloudView EL (Extended Language). By licensing the Rosette technology -- for languages including linguistically complex Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu -- CloudView EL will offer enhanced search capabilities and greater accuracy to corporate users in Asia and the Middle East.
[Tisková zpráva] Poskytovatel vyhledávacích technologií EXALEAD zajistí přístupovou infrastrukturu pro projekt digitální knihovny Gallica. Vítězství své dceřiné společnosti ve výběrovém řízení Francouzské národní knihovny oznámila firma Dassault Systèmes. Jako hlavní důvody pro výběr řešení EXALEAD CloudView uvedla knihovna pokročilé lingvistické a sémantické funkce, vysoký výkon a flexibilitu.
BNF si aggiunge così ad altre prestigiose istituzioni francesi che hanno scelto EXALEAD come partner di riferimento per la conservazione e la promozione del patrimonio culturale nazionale nell’era digitale: l'Ufficio della Presidenza Francese (Eliseo), l’Agenzia Stampa del Governo Frances (Journaux Officiels), l’Istituto Nazionale dell'Audiovisivo (INA/Institut National de l'Audiovisuel) e il canale televisivo internazionale France 24.
Bibliothèque nationale de France injects semantic and unstructured data search into Gallica, its web-based public library.
Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), today announced that its subsidiary EXALEAD, a global provider of search-based applications (SBA) technology, has been selected by AskPeopleYouKnow.com, a brand new ‘social search’ service conceived and launched by Aubert Park Ventures.
Enterprises look to increase revenue through adapting and evolving their business strategy to seize opportunities in the market. These strategies need to be based on relevant, consolidated content and data that can be interrogated and analyzed by a broad range of business professionals. SBAs improve day-to-day tactical decision-making effectiveness and provide valuable input into strategic decision-making.
Like many other government agencies, the United States Army is contending with mounting data. According to EXALEAD, a company that provides cloud-based solutions for making sense out of the mountain of information, at this point “more than 80% of government information resources originate in email, electronic documents and rich media online.
We noted a new book Search-Based Applications: At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies.
To allow customers to find the products they're looking for quickly, Olympus is implementing the e-Spirit EnterpriseSearch module, which is based on search technology from e-Spirit's partner EXALEAD.
"EXALEAD delivers applications that fit seamlessly and smoothly into customer workflows," said Arnold. "When I spoke with EXALEAD customers I heard only: 'This system works,' 'It's easy to use,' 'It's stable,' and 'I don’t have to chase around."
Dassault Systèmes announced that its subsidiary EXALEAD, a provider of search-based application platforms, is an extended package of CloudView modules developed specifically to integrate information from legacy CRM, ERP, HR enterprise applications, PLM systems and web content.
In many ways the computer makes old business practices obsolete, but in other ways it still feels like we have a messy desk stacked with papers and stickies—it’s just on our hard drive now. Global search solutions provider, EXALEAD, http://www.exalead.com is attempting to fix this feeling with a new release, CloudView 360, as we learned from EXALEAD’s Web site.
The next advance, according to François Bourdoncle, chief strategy officer at search software specialist EXALEAD, is "verticalised" searching, that tailors both the sources searched and the presentation of the results according to the job function of the searcher.
According to EXALEAD, the search-based application platform provider to business and government, the search market is constantly evolving, being driven by new technologies and the demand for easy and intuitive use. "The future looks extremely positive, providing lots of new and exciting avenues to explore," said François Bourdoncle, co-founder and chief strategy officer at EXALEAD.
EXALEAD, a provider of search platforms and search-based business application (SBA) technology for consumer and business users, and Capgemini, one of the world's providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, have announced the expansion of their partnership to a global level. By James Stockbridge.
EXALEAD, provider of search platforms and search-based business application (SBA) technology for consumer and business users, and Capgemini, provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, have announced the expansion of their partnership to a global level.
Capgemini, the provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services has extended its offering of EXALEAD search-based applications to help more customers manage, aggregate and interpret data from high volume and disparate sources
A GEFCO, subsidiária da Peugeot na Europa, é responsável pela logística de veículos novos e peças das fábricas para centros automotivos; eles trabalham com cerca de 100.000 eventos diários relativos a 600.000 veículos em 80 países (cerca de 5TB de informações) e disponibilizam estes dados para seus clientes através de um portal Web.
EXALEAD, a global provider of search-based business application (SBAs) technology, today announced that the University of Sunderland is using its CloudView solution to provide accurate, meaningful search results across its extensive academic and operational databases, as well as logging attendance via electronic swipe card data.
PoolCorp. has immersed itself in EXALEAD's search enabled applications framework, CloudView. According to information from EXALEAD, in 2009, PoolCorp evaluated its existing e-commerce platform and decided that a complete ground-up rewrite was needed to improve the ability for their customers to find products easier and faster.
As the world faces an exponential increase in data, the need to deliver precise information has never been felt more. In this scenario, the relevance of Search-Based Applications (SBAs) has greatly increased. To get a foothold in this market, Dassault Systemes (Public, EPA:DSY) recently acquired EXALEAD, a provider of SBAs.
Ovum's technology audit of EXALEAD's CloudView 5.0 gives the search-based applications and business intelligence system the thumbs up. The analyst reports that it is a highly scalable, high performance SOA search platform for search-based application and SQL-less analytics.
EXALEAD's CloudView will be a core technology in the integrated enterprise/software-as-a-service platform that underpins Objective's content, collaboration and process management solutions for the public sector and will be included in the solutions from the fourth quarter of 2010.
Meanwhile, combined with EXALEAD, a search engine company that was just acquired by DS, the Search Based Application (SBAs) was introduced in the conference.
EXALEAD is built around an intuitive, browser-based interface that's modeled after the company's Web search portal. This convenient design lets you search your desktop and external Web sites from one place.
ARC attended the recent (June 22-23) Dassault Systemes user conference and analyst event. Here, the focus was clearly on the company's intent to position PLM as not only as a way to design and build products, but to use the virtual world of 3D to enable a complete lifelike experience of the product development process.
Yellow Pages Group (YPG) of Canada has selected the EXALEAD CloudView search-based application to collect customer sentiment information for YPG's Urbanizer iPhone application. EXALEAD was acquired recently by Dassault Systemes.
French software provider Dassault Systemes' acquisition of compatriot software company EXALEAD will speed up penetration into new Latin American industries such as oil and gas, the CEO of Dassault's ENOVIA brand, Mich Tellier, told BNamericas.
EXALEAD, now part of the large French software and services company Dassault, continues to ramp up its search, content processing, and search enabled applications.
EXALEAD's Paul Doscher talks about EXALEAD and user experience, sometimes shortened to "UX" on the June 28, 2010, ArnoldIT Beyond Search podcast.
EXALEAD http://www.exalead.com Robust system which handles structured and unstructured data. Outputs may be piped to other enterprise software, a report, or a peripatetic worker with a mobile phone in Starbucks.
Why do I use the phrase "real time"? I don't have a better phrase at hand. Vendors yap about real time and a very, very few explain exactly what their use of the phrase means. One outfit that deserves a pat on the head is EXALEAD.
In this second installment, EXALEAD's Paul Doscher talks with Stephen E Arnold of ArnoldIT about EXALEAD's technical approach to content processing and the framework that makes search-based applications crack tough problems in information access.
EXALEAD's Paul Doscher talks about EXALEAD's search-based applications on the June 14, 2010, ArnoldIT Beyond Search podcast.
Paris-based PLM provider Dassault Systèmes today announced that it will spend approximately €135 million to acquire fellow French company EXALEAD, a search technology specialist founded in 2000 by former executives of search engine company AltaVista.
Dassault Systèmes has acquired the French company EXALEAD (News - Alert) for about 135 million Euros, or just under 200 million U.S. dollars. EXALEAD is a search-based, application platform provider to business and government, and more than 100 million unique users a month use EXALEAD's technology for searches.
EXALEAD, the search engine that (no kidding) underlies Friendster and has been behind French government attempts to build a platform to rival Google (yes), has been acquired by Dassault Systèmes, a leader in 3D software for big company processes for about €135 million ($161.5m).
Dassault Systèmes has added French search specialist EXALEAD to its portfolio of PLM (product lifecycle management) and 3-D software. The vendor will pay around €135 million (US$195 million) for EXALEAD, according to a statement.
Search firm EXALEAD has produced a new online tool that evaluates subjective factors, such as mood and sentiment and attitudes to price and value, from live web content.
Dassault Systèmes, a developer of 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions announced an OEM agreement with EXALEAD, a global software provider in the enterprise and Web search market.
Yellow Pages Group's phone application, Urbanizer, selected EXALEAD Cloudview to collect customer sentiment information.
A technology consortium funded by the French government unveiled multimedia search tools Thursday, as part of a scaled-back attempt to challenge the dominance of U.S. search engines.
Quaero, which was set up two years ago, showed off software that converts spoken language into written text; a program that synchronizes electronic books to audio books; and an automatic translation device which turns German into English (though not into French).
L'obiettivo é chiarire al mercato che, rispetto ai sistemi tradizionali, l'approccio del search engine ha la capacità di distruggere i paradigmi esistenti per velocità, affidabilità e scalabilità.
Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), one of the world leaders in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced an OEM agreement with EXALEAD, a global software provider in the enterprise and Web search market.
The idea for a cloud a la Francaise is in part a backlash against American providers of cloud computing services such as Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft. As with Europe's $6 billion Galileo sat-nav system - an alternative to the U.S. - operated GPS - and various Old World search engine projects such as France's Quaero, some Europeans worry about becoming overly dependent on American technology in key strategic areas.
EXALEAD's semantic technology already enables Real Travel users to evaluate their travel options against other peoples' experiences found on travel blogs. Real Travel helps more than a million people plan trips each month with advice from other travellers provided in both hotel reviews and travel blogs.
EXALEAD also claimed that the new solution will enhance the experience of customers using travel websites.
EXALEAD, a global leader of information access solutions and search-based applications for the enterprise and on the web, today advised travel websites that they can improve their conversion revenue, ad click- through revenue and improve consumers' online travel booking experiences by using its Smart Search for Travel and Leisure solution.
The article points out that Jaspersoft uses EXALEAD's technology to deal with "documentation, internal and external wikis, Salesforce.com case management system, and the JasperForge.org community site".
This year's Evvie was sponsored by EXALEAD. Arnold and ArnoldIT.com provide the trophy to keep Brenner's push for excellence squarely in the minds of the speakers and the conference attendees. Presenting this year's award was Eric Rogge, EXALEAD, and Liz Diamond, niece of Ev Brenner.
The Search Engine Meeting, held this year in Boston, is one of the few events that focuses on the substance of information retrieval, not the marketing hyperbole of the sector. Entering its second decade, the conference speakers tackle challenging subjects.
EXALEAD, a global leader of information access solutions and search-based applications for the enterprise and on the web, today announced Jaspersoft, creator of the world's most widely used business intelligence software, has significantly improved its customer support efficiency with EXALEAD CloudView.
Here's an example: A search for the word "airplane". We first selected colors, dealt with luminosity and saturation, and quickly and easily had an excellent set of images. Btw, if you look at the top of the image box, you'll see what percentage of the colors you selected are being used. You can choose many colors and adjust with the adjustment bar.
Since using an IVR system as well as voice and video technologies are constantly on the rise, Elysee.fr, the presidential Web site, is the first to use Voxalead, a tool developed by EXALEAD to make video and audio files searchable by automatically transcribing the speech they contain, IDG reported.
The Evvie Award recognizes outstanding work in the field of search and content processing. This year, the Evvie is sponsored by EXALEAD, one of the leaders in search-based applications and ArnoldIT.com, are sponsoring the award.
A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to the new EXALEAD-powered PagesJaunes service.
EXALEAD, a global leader of information access solutions and search-based applications for the enterprise and on the web, today announced NewspaperARCHIVE.com has moved its search functions to EXALEAD.
Indexed with technology from EXALEAD, the social networks linked to PagesBlanches are Copainsdavant, Facebook, LinkedIn, Trombi, Twitter and Viadeo.
A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to a Marketwire story about EXALEAD's deal with NewspaperArchive.com.
EXALEAD CloudView uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-utilized data in the disparate, heterogeneous enterprise and web information cloud.
As is the case each year, compilation of the list is a yearlong collaborative effort among colleagues, analysts, system integrators and a select group of users, all of whom requested anonymity, which we respect.
Joining e-Spirit at the stand this year will be four of its partners in technology and integration: [...] EXALEAD [...]
The deployment of CloudView is part of UCLan's ambitious web strategy to be a leader in the university sector for web provision. [...] EXALEAD's CloudView Search is an easy-to-use platform for creating search-based applications that access both structured and unstructured data such as instant messages, emails, web pages, and multimedia.
Some vendors are jumping whole hog into the nascent category. For example, French Internet and enterprise search vendor EXALEAD has jumped in with both feet, making search-based applications a key war cry in their marketing.
Fortunately some firms like EXALEAD in France have taken a fact-based approach to their marketing. I know of one procurement where EXALEAD insisted that the customer run head-to-head comparisons among various enterprise search solutions.
EXALEAD, a global provider of search-based business application (SBAs) technology, today announced that University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has deployed its CloudView Search solution.
Despite the economic downturn, EXALEAD continued its growth in 2009 with a worldwide revenue of $22,7M. Software sales grew by almost 20% in France and by 30% in the US, which is a great source of satisfaction to us. We added 50 new references to our global customer base, achieving a 25% growth.
This is the second part of the interview with Raymond Bentinck of EXALEAD.
Editor's introduction: Raymond Bentinck (who now works at EXALEAD) and I have discussed-maybe argued about-search and content processing every month or so for several years.
The finalists for the European IT Excellence Awards - the leading pan-European awards event for IT and Telecoms channels - were announced today by IT Europa. A total of 51 companies from 16 countries have made the finals.
CloudView OEM Edition 5.0 is built on a new product architecture that significantly improves performance and improves embeddability, helping software product teams accelerate their time to market all while reducing the overall TCO.
The workshop will therefore be concerned with discussion of new infrastructures, architectures, algorithms etc. that will enable easy adaptation of Semantic Web applications to multiple languages, addressing issues in representation, extraction, integration, presentation etc.