Recently, Chief Technology Officer, Ken Ebert, discussed the benefits Perfect Search technologies can offer businesses with Bill Ives, a thought leader in emerging technologies and knowledge management.

Ebert shared several examples how Perfect Search has helped businesses solve their data management needs successfully:

1. Olsen DataMax recently teamed up with Perfect Search to provide search functionality for DataMax’s paper to digital solutions.
2. Perfect Search enabled World Vital Records to reduce their number of servers from 9 to 1, when other enterprise providers had estimated up to 1,200. Talk about cost prohibitive.
3. i.TV for iPhones and iPads is now powered by Perfect Search and the cost to users has been significantly reduced.

Not only does Perfect Search enable real time indexing, server reduction, and microsecond data retrieval, it does so in a “cost effective manner,” Bill Ives said. As information continues to explode, more companies will look for solutions to manage this information and Perfect Search is leading the way.

The MPSC is a place where businesses are introduced to new advances from Microsoft and its partners. This gives Perfect Search the opportunity to reach more customers and show off the speed, scalability and precision of the Perfect Search technology.

“For CIOs and information management directors dissatisfied with the high cost and poor precision and performance of today’s enterprise search,” said Perfect Search CEO, Tim Stay. He added that Perfect Search provides the speed, precision and scalability unlike any enterprise search appliance on the market today.

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He needed a search engine with a parallel system and one that could handle double the data as the curent system.

The answer was Perfect Search.

Allen pointed out three main strengths of the Perfect Search engine.

1. Scalability. FamilyLink was able to reduce our query servers from seven down to one, while doubling the amount of data.

2. Performance. Query performance went from multiple seconds per query to subsecond query speeds.
3. Drop-In. Replacing Lucene with Perfect search was easy.

“Today, more than 1.6 billion records exist on one server, with an additional server for redundancy. The same 40GB of data that took more than 880 hours to index on Lucene is now indexed in approximately 36 hours by Perfect Search,” Allen said. “CPU utilization seldom exceeds 10 percent at peak query loads.”

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If you’ve read his work, you’ve likely picked out some themes. One that holds particular resonance is this idea that most believe that if you’ve got a search problem, the traditional answer is to throw hardware at it. Having a database performance issue? Throw hardware at it. Having scalability issues? Hardware. Not getting the queries per second you need? I think you get the idea.

Throwing hardware at the problem may be great for the companies selling the hardware, but from licensing to energy costs more hardware means more cost, and folks these days are a bit more cautious when it comes to pulling the trigger. As one client recently said, “People are buying cheaper, not better. . . “‘

Enter Perfect Search. Using patented algorithms and methodologies Perfect Search clients are able to actually reduce the amount of hardware required to support search and we’ve never delivered a solution that produced less than a 5 to 1 search server reduction. In most cases the server replacement ratio is actually higher. Add to that the fact that the technology produces superior query precision, blazing index and query speeds, and all at an attractive price point and Perfect Search starts to look very appealing.

Given the above, it’s no wonder that folks like Stephen Arnold and the team over at Arnold IT are fans. We’re pretty excited too.

Day Two at the Enterprise Search Summit West was a busy one. We had steady foot traffic through the booth all day long, and were able to make some meaningful contact with companies looking to solve search problems ranging from how to scale in a cost effective manner, to being able to aggregate search through a single user interface and across multiple disparate databases.

Del spoke on Implementing Search at a mid-day session, and was very well received. Additionally we put out a press release on our ability to put a billion doc (database records) on a single server, which continues to provide resonance with those in attendance at the show.

Each company we speak with further drives home the point that search is a universal problem, and that the solution we have to offer is both unique truly next generation search. We look forward to having further discussions with those we’ve met over the past couple of days and finishing strong here in San Jose.

We’re pleased to announce our participation in the Enterprise Search Summit West confeence. Tim, Del, and I flew into Oakland last night and are heading to the conference center to set up the booth and attend some of the earlier sessions.

Our message is centered around our “How big is a billion?” theme. With the eplosion of digital data growth, companies are daily struggling to access, parse, and utilize the tremendous amount accumulated information.

We anticipate that our ability to provide cost effective scalability (1 billion documents/records on a single serer), our ability to connect our One Box Extender to an existing Google Search Appliance to help clients index and search their large databases in a cost effective manner, and our strengths in precision and recall will help set us apart from the crowd and help open some doors.

Perfect Search and Access Innovation will be announcing a new partnership at the Search Engine Meeting in Boston next week.  Here is the press release announcing the relationship:

Contact:
Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President
Access Innovations, Inc.
P.O. 8640
Albuquerque, NM  87198-8640
(505) 265-3591; (800) 926-8328
mhlava@accessinn.com

For immediate release

April 27, 2009

“People don’t really want to search.  They want to find information.”  Marjorie Hlava, president of Access Innovations, goes on to say, “Teaming with Perfect Search to create Search Harmony provides the best of all search technologies.”

Access Innovations of Albuquerque, NM, and Perfect Search Corporation of Orem, Utah, today announced a joint presentation for cutting edge search technology at competitive prices.  “The combination of blazingly fast search with tools to increase precision and recall means that the relevance can be based on concepts rather than statistical ‘guess-timates’ and real ‘find-ability’ achieved” said Jay Ven Eman, CEO of Access Innovations.

“The search technology of Perfect Search is based upon ground-breaking technological innovation that provides the ability to quickly index and query very large data sets”, explained Ken Ebert, CTO of Perfect Search.  Extremely scalable, Perfect Search already hosts databases of more than 1.4 billion records with sub-second search response time. The search can be faceted, full text, or a combination.

Adding the presentation layer from Access Innovations’ Data Harmony software suite gives the user the ability to improve search results through taxonomy-enhanced methods such as automatic completion based on the synonyms and taxonomy terms, related terms to broaden the search, narrower terms to refine the search, browsing of taxonomies associated with document sets, spell check, and recursive sets.

“I think you will find this very advanced and something which will fit the users’ semantic strategy by allowing ontology search and application.  The search builds on the taxonomy / thesaurus/ ontology or other controlled lists.  This lets the customer save staff time, quickly find and retrieve, and increase relevance accuracy, as well enjoy better precision and full recall” said Tim Stay, CEO of Perfect Search.

About Access Innovations:

Access Innovations, Inc. has been providing document processing, database construction, and project management for its customers’ information needs since 1978. In those roles, Access Innovations adds value to customer knowledge bases and improves data conversion, document retrieval, content classification, search design, display, and portability of information assets.

The company’s suite of Data Harmony products provides thesaurus construction and database management tools to publishers (both primary and secondary), database producers, online and Web-based directory publishers, corporate libraries, Internet portals, and corporations and associations with large intranets.

For more information about Access Innovations, Data Harmony applications, or the search enhancements, call +1.800.926.8328, e-mail mhlava@accessinn.com, or visit www.accessinn.com or www.dataharmony.com.

About Perfect Search Corporation:

Perfect Search Corporation is a software innovation company that specializes in development of search solutions. A total of eight patents have been applied for around the developing technology.  The suite of search products at http://www.perfectsearchcorp.com/our-products is available on multiple platforms, from small mobile devices, to single servers, to large server farms. For more information, contact Perfect Search at www.perfectsearchcorp.com or +1.801.437.1100.