Navigation Solution Delivers New Levels of Visualization, Scalability and Security

EL SEGUNDO, CA. Oct. 31, 2006

Siderean Software, a pioneer in faceted navigation solutions, today announced the availability of Seamark Navigator 4.1. Highlighted by enhanced ease-of-use and analytics capabilities, Seamark Navigator 4.1 enables enterprise users to discover and use the full scope of enterprise and Web-based information available for better-informed decision making. The upgraded enterprise navigation solution features a number of visualization enhancements to interactively present relationships, analyses and trends - turning data into actionable information. As a result, customers experience a more flexible, user-friendly solution that enables the industry’s most rapid time-to-value in delivering digital information navigation, enterprise mash-ups and federated search.

The latest version of Seamark Navigator is able to derive more meaning from search results than typical navigation solutions by applying advanced analytics to quickly and easily compute sums, averages, maximums and minimums over numeric facet values, enabling enterprise users to survey and track aggregated results from multiple data repositories at a glance. As a result, Seamark Navigator delivers a flexible navigation solution with the industry’s most rapid time-to-value. Seamark Navigator 4.1 now incorporates hierarchical clustering and entity-level security, resulting in enhanced scalability and security capabilities.

“Navigation has emerged as an extremely powerful tool to aid enterprise users in the fight against information overload,” said Michael Schmitt, CEO of Siderean. “However, enterprises are looking for solutions that leverage the free flow of information from multiple sources, including the Web, while maintaining control. Before Seamark Navigator, most navigation solutions have typically required long, tedious implementation cycles before delivering on their promise. With Seamark Navigator 4.1, Siderean has dramatically improved time-to-value for its customers, enabling a much quicker ability to reap the benefits of faceted navigation. Those benefits are now magnified by the fact that the ability to access information, which is already ubiquitous, has begun to take a back seat to how organizations organize and present that information. With Seamark Navigator 4.1, we are providing user-friendly information provisioning in an increasingly network-centric world.”

New features and enhancements native to Seamark Navigator 4.1 are designed to increase time to value and are focused on providing customers with a fast, flexible and robust method to customize Seamark applications. New features and functionalities include:

• Robust analytics capabilities, including chart support, table support and date/time support;
• Point and click Navigation Builder for increased flexibility;
• Point and click Information Feed Support for RDBMS, LDAP and Web Service protocols;
• Standards-based SPARQL support for querying disparate data sources;
• Hierarchical clustering to allow exponential increase in scalability;
• Data provenance and role-based security; and
• Tag Library support for enhancing user customization.