Media Coverage - 2008

12-03-2008 TMCnet.com

Exalead Named to EContent 100

"2008 has been a big year for Exalead -- we signed more than 50 new customers, released our CloudView product family and expanded our North American operations," said Paul Doscher, CEO of Exalead. "Our inclusion in the EContent 100 underscores our achievements in 2008 and is indicative of not only our technology's innovation but also our company's global traction."

11-25-2008 FRENZY

TERMINALFOUR Updates Web CMS, Creates Partner Community

TERMINALFOUR just finished up their t44u Global User Conference last week and it sounds like it was a good one. They not only demonstrated the latest version of their Web CMS - Site Manager 6.2, they also announced the creation of a Partner and User Extranet powered by that new version.

11-24-2008 CMS WIRE

TERMINALFOUR Tackles Enterprise Search with Exalead's Cloudview

Relatively quiet with the news lately, TerminalFour has just made a big announcement related to their Web Content Management System. A new partnership with Exalead, provider of Enterprise Search solutions, will see TerminalFour's Web CMS include the enterprise search capabilities of Exalead's Cloudview solution.

11-18-2008 EContent

Exalead and TERMINALFOUR Partner

Exalead's CloudView product line will be made available alongside TERMINALFOUR's Site Manager to help businesses manage their web, intranet, and extranet content and provide an enterprise search facility. Exalead's CloudView product line is an enterprise platform designed specifically to overcome search requirements and consumer facing web sites.

11-18-2008 Compute Scotland

Exalead cloud through Terminalfour for Scottish Government?

Exalead, the Paris-based global leader of search software for business and the web whose client base includes 'leading companies such as the Scottish Government,' together with the Dublin-based Terminalfour, Europe's fastest growing content management company, [...] announced a new strategic partnership which reflects both companies' commitment to development and expansion and will also allow both companies to drive new growth opportunities.

11-17-2008 Economia de hoy

Exalead entra en el Cuadrante Mágico de Gartner 2008 de compañías visionarias

Exalead, multinacional especializada en soluciones de búsqueda y acceso a todo tipo de fuentes de información, ha sido posicionada como una de las compañías Visionarias en el Cuadrante Mágico de Gartner para las Tecnologías de Acceso a la información 2008.

11-17-2008 ECM Connection

Exalead And TERMINALFOUR Announce Strategic New Partnership

Piero Tintori, CEO and founder of TERMINALFOUR, said, "Exalead proved to be a perfect addition to the TERMINALFOUR community. Like TERMINALFOUR, they understand the importance of aligning their customers' IT requirements with their business needs. With search being crucial to so many companies today, Exalead's best of breed search capabilities will play a vital role in securing new customers for TERMINALFOUR as we continue to gain market share throughout Europe, the US and the middle-east."

11-17-2008 ENN

Daily Digest 17 November

Content management firm TerminalFour has signed a deal with Exalead, a search software provider. Exalead's CloudView product line will be made available alongside TerminalFour's Site Manager to help businesses manage their web, intranet and extranet content and provide an enterprise search facility. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

11-10-2008 TCN technology Channel News

El mercado de acceso a la información, en auge

Dentro del mercado español, la compañía Exalead, especializada en soluciones de búsqueda y acceso a todo tipo de fuentes de información, asegura estar en consonancia con las previsiones estratégicas de Gartner para este sector, contando para ello con el apoyo de todos sus partners.

10-27-2008 MKM

ISV magazine entrevista a Jean Michel Bocchi, Director General de Exalead Iberia

Ponemos en marcha una estrategia comercial dinámica para los partners de España y Portugal que permita promover las soluciones con una meta: afiliados de calidad. Por eso, es preferible no saturar el canal con múltiples socios para poder atender sus demandas de forma rápida y precisa.

10-24-2008 The New York Times

Exalead updates enterprise search to explore data 'cloud'

The new brand, CloudView, is about giving enterprise users access to the cloud of data around them, whether on their own machine, on company servers or on the Internet, allowing external data to be incorporated into searches. There's no cloud computing involved, though: the company's intention is to have everything running on its customers' servers.

10-05-2008 ArnoldIT

Exalead's High Performance Platform: CloudView

[...]"In my investigation of search company technology, I learned that Exalead's ability to scale is comparable to Google's. As Mr. Muncaster noted, the forthcoming version of the Exalead software—called CloudView—will put Exalead squarely in the business intelligence sector of the content processing market."

10-03-2008 ArnoldIT

Mindbreeze Enterprise Search

[...]"The flagships in search and content processing remain Autonomy (more of a diversified services vendor) and Exalead (a real challenger to the GOOG in engineering) dominate the European scene."

10-02-2008 Information Today

Exalead Offers a Cloud(y)View of Information Access

[...]"We are building our new platform from the ground up so that it will also offer our partners, such as systems integrators and value added resellers, the ability to build out high end solutions to their customers," says Francois Bourdoncle, Exalead co-founder. "Our key objective is to allow developers to extend the reach of business applications to unstructured content.[...]"

10-01-2008 KMWorld

Conquering data clouds

Exalead has introduced the CloudView family of products, which is slated for availability beginning in Q4 2008. The solutions have evolved from the Exalead one:enterprise line with a new architecture designed to better adapt to the scaling requirements of today's enterprise.

09-26-2008 EContent

Exalead Announces Enterprise Information Access Platform

Exalead CloudView product line will offer: a fully distributed architecture with centralized administration, business level tuning and management of the search experience, ability to extend Business Intelligence applications to textual search, and a WYSIWYG configuration of indexing and search workflows.

09-25-2008 Alt Search Engines

Exalead enters the US enterprise search market

Exalead, a global leader of information access software for business and the web, today announced the industry's most flexible and scalable enterprise platform designed specifically to overcome the new challenges facing the evolving complex search requirements of enterprises and high traffic consumer facing web sites.

09-15-2008 eWeek Europe

Exalead presenta en España su motor de búsqueda corporativo

El buscador está pensado especialmente para aquellas empresas que gestionan gran volumen de datos estructurados (bbdd, ERPs, CRM, BI etc.) y no estructurados (multimedia, mails, webs,) así como portales online que requieran un buscador como generador de tráfico web.

09-01-2008 Finanzas y Banca

Exalead llega a España

Después de consolidar su actividad en Europa, Exalead, multinacional especializada en soluciones de búsqueda y acceso a todo tipo de fuentes de información y de Extended Business Intelligence, ha llegado a la Península Ibérica con una innovadora tecnología que ha destacado por sus cortos periodos de implantación no conocidos anteriormente en España.

05-26-2008 InfoWeek, Germany

Search platforms for enterprises

[...]Exalead offers a good Web, Intra- and desktop search with good content analysis features. Exalead also offers a web seach under exalead.de.

04-25-2008 Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany

Answers please! Scientists work on search engines that understand what there users want to find

[...]Born out of Quaero, exalead does not find as many results as Google does, but it offer feature richness such as preview pictures in the results list.

04-23-2008 Berliner Zeitung, Germany

The best results - Alternatives to Google

[...]Exalead offers graphical and listed search results in a very comfortable interface.

04-21-2008 Wien.orf.at, Austria

Warning against the Google Trap

[...]Although exlead does not search through as many sites as google, the result listing is more comfortable and features page previews.

03-25-2008 Handelsblatt, Germany

In search of the search

Exalead Founder François Bourdoncle (www.exalead.de) has not given up hope yet to close on to Google one day. "There are 300 people workin in R&D at Google, we have 50. But the difference is not as big as you could imagine."

03-23-2008 International Herald Tribune

Quaero gets off the ground to challenge Google

[...]One of them, Exalead, which specializes in business search engine technology, is one of the few French-born technology companies to compete with Google on any level, and is one of the Quaero project leaders.

03-03-2008 ComputerWeekly

IDeA deploys streamlined search platform to aid staff working on behalf of councils

The government's Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) has integrated Exalead's online search functionality into its agency-wide IT platform to streamline staff search functions.

02-25-2008 ArnoldIT

An Interview with François Bourdoncle

Stephen Arnold: "I count Exalead as one among four vendors that are candidates to replace an incumbent system. Furthermore, I identified Exalead as an "up and comer," a designation that means a company has strong growth and exceptional technology. My analyses show that Exalead is "a next-generation system," and it warrants a long, hard look by an organization wanting to deliver robust search and retrieval, content processing, and low-latency performance to a single user or tens of thousands of users."

01-22-2008 internetnews.com

Exalead Woos FAST Customers

Kevin Kramer, vice president of OEM sales at Exalead, said the Exalead migration program is designed to take risk off the table for companies considering a switch. Kramer said he has no doubt Microsoft's ownership will impact FAST's feature road map to be more in sync with Microsoft's strategy. "And those moves may not align well with what an OEM customer wants," he said.

01-19-2008 Byte and Switch

Exalead Launches Migration Program

"Accelerate With Exalead is designed to help ease those uncertainties by providing organizations with a compelling, risk-free alternative to migrate to a high-performance, scalable enterprise search platform.", said Kevin Kramer, vice president of OEM, Exalead.

01-18-2008 Computer Technology Review

Messaging Architects and Exalead launch M+Archive 3.5 for email eDiscovery

"Integrating the Exalead platform into M+Archive directly benefits enterprise-level organizations by resulting in a dramatic reduction of the cost and time traditionally associated with eDiscovery requests," said François Bourdoncle, co-founder of Exalead.

01-09-2008 vnunet.com

A simpler way to scour content (ITWEEK article)

Raymond Bentinck: "[...]We also developped a whole new language, which means we can put the technology in very quickly, and a large proportion of our customers don't need professional services from us."

01-09-2008 internetnews.com

Will Microsoft's FAST Buy Pay Off Long Term?

IDC analyst Sue Feldman said search can be "endlessly useful" in the enterprise[...]. She said companies like FAST and competitors such as Autonomy and Exalead are addressing the need of enterprise customers to access transactional, sales, Web and documents in a unified way.

01-08-2008 InfoWorld

Microsoft bids $1.2B for Fast Search and Transfer

Fast Search's rivals in the market for specialized enterprise search tools include Google, with its Search Appliance; French search company Exalead, and Autonomy, which recently acquired Meridio and Zantaz.

01-08-2008 IDC

Microsoft acquires FAST

[...]They and a handful of other visionary vendors like Endeca and Exalead have begun offering a sort of "BI lite" that increases the ease of entry and access to data stores. In doing so, they helped to precipitate a flurry of acquisitions over the last year as BI and data-based companies hastened to catch up.

01-07-2008 ITWEEK

A simpler way to scour content

Raymond Bentinck: "We realised that enterprise search is currently too complex, expensive and hard to deploy.[...] Exalead's products are designed to be used by business managers rather than search specialists."