Vivisimo Releases Velocity 8.0, New Version of Its Market Leading Information Optimization Platform

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivisimo, the leader in Information Optimization, announced today the release of Velocity 8.0. Recognizing the need for greater control by business managers and content owners, the reduction of IT resources, the ability to leverage existing SharePoint systems and hardware scalability, the newest version of Velocity introduces features that aim at driving quantifiable revenue increases and productivity savings.

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"The new features in Velocity 8.0 represent a synthesis of the needs of our clients and our engineers' ingenious insights and technical expertise," said CEO John Kealey. "In an economy that requires organizations to optimize every component of their operation, Vivisimo's Velocity platform enhances our clients' core business divisions, such as sales and customer service, by creating direct access to timely and relevant information intelligence."

Although the new features were inspired by the trending adoption of Velocity as a sales enablement and customer service application, Velocity 8.0 carries with it new technologies applicable to all types of enterprises, both private and government.

"Working with multiple federal agencies, non-profits and the scientific community, Velocity 8.0 is an invaluable Government 2.0 tool that allows us to quickly collaborate and complete projects from start to finish," said technology specialist with the United States Geological Survey Janice Gordon. "The explosion of data within the scientific community could be a significant roadblock when working on intense research projects that involve people from around the world, but Vivisimo removes that complexity by providing an Information Optimization platform that aggregates that data into a seamless user experience."

New Features of Velocity 8.0

Empowering the Business

A key new feature of Velocity 8.0 is IO Pro, which introduces new controls for business users, content owners and knowledge workers to optimize the way content is discovered by and presented to users. Business users can use IO Pro to promote and highlight the most relevant content, best bets and other important information to end-users. Content owners can configure relevant acronyms, synonyms and related terms to be displayed upon the context of the original inquiry helping increase recall. With IO Pro, Velocity 8.0 greatly reduces the need for IT resource consumption by granting greater control over information delivery to those individuals closest and most knowledgeable about the needs of end-user.  

"The ability to highlight and push contextual information to users, depending on their inquiry has some pretty major implications," said Vice President of Marketing, Tracey Mustacchio. "For example, if a new product is being launched, a company's vice president of operations can create spotlights to push relevant product datasheets to the sales force as well as answers to frequently asked questions to customer support when calls start coming in."

Leveraging Existing Assets

Recognizing organizations' need for a single point of access, Vivisimo is augmenting the true value of SharePoint by showcasing Velocity's proprietary contextual-information and organization features directly in the SharePoint interface. Velocity 8.0 allows users to navigate through all of their information assets such as email, archives, file shares, CRM data and more directly in the SharePoint interface driving a single point of access to all information.

Scalability

All too often information access solutions waste 90% of the processing power on a single machine since they cannot leverage multiple cores. Instead of wasting that 90% of processing power, Velocity 8.0 can use all of this processing power and return results as much  as 10x faster. This enables much more complex discovery tasks to be performed for the user in less time utilizing overall fewer resources.

New additions also include:

• Intelligent Auto-Completion: As users form a query they are automatically recommended related terms based on what is typed. Within a secure enterprise, users are only shown terms that are in content that they are authorized to view.
• Windows Desktop Search Update: The desktop search update enhances and improves the overall quality of Velocity's federated search connector to the Windows Desktop Search (WDS) application, including support for Windows 7.

About Vivisimo, Inc.

Vivisimo provides enterprises with information optimization solutions that help maximize the business value of information.  Unlike traditional information management products, Vivisimo's innovative solutions help end-users find and take advantage of all appropriate and available information, regardless of source, location or type. Vivisimo's innovative technology is delivered with a focus on end-user satisfaction and application control through easy-to-use interfaces, flexible security management and a modern architecture that enables quick deployment. Vivisimo products are available as standalone information optimization applications or as OEM versions embedded within partner applications and solutions. Vivisimo serves its clients from headquarters in Pittsburgh, USA, and through partners around the world. Visit Vivisimo.com for more information.  

SOURCE Vivisimo, Inc.