EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 14 -- Siderean, the leading provider of relational navigation solutions, today announced the availability of Seamark Navigator 4.5, the newest version of Siderean’s award-winning information access platform. Through its patented relational navigation technology, Seamark Navigator 4.5 provides users with the ability to dynamically identify relationships between sets of information, create the context to drive action and increase user participation in the information flow.

The convergence of information consumers and producers has created an urgent need for improved access to large volumes of information from multiple data sources. Seamark Navigator 4.5 leverages semantic technology to enable users to harness content from across the enterprise and on the Web, allowing users to master information access and discovery. Seamark Navigator 4.5 also enables more user participation than ever before, providing users with new tagging, voting, ranking and reviewing capabilities. It helps users to more easily and effectively collaborate via commenting features and the ability to save and share searches. The release of Seamark Navigator 4.5 is highlighted by improvements in usability, scalability, security and management capabilities.

“Search alone is no longer enough,” said Sue Feldman, IDC’s research vice president for the Content Technologies Group. “The search engine is just one component in today's extended discovery application. The action in 2007 centers on enriching and interpreting queries, documents and output. Helping users find and explore information requires other technologies that understand and link related information and events, guiding users to what they didn't even know to ask about. That's real serendipity."

Different from traditional search solutions, Siderean’s Seamark Navigator 4.5 information access platform enables users to identify and understand previously unseen relationships between information from disparate data sources. These dynamic relationships create the context to drive action, enabling users to go beyond the limitations of traditional search and navigation solutions by delivering the ability pivot across query results instead of simply drilling down through search results. As a result, users are better able to find the information they are seeking. Once found, Seamark makes it easy for users to tag, rate, review, save and share information. By facilitating participation, Siderean’s Seamark Navigator allows Web sites to increase traffic, interest and stickiness, ultimately leading to more relevance and value.

“The generation of massive amounts of information is one of the hallmarks of social media -- and one of its greatest selling points,” said Jason Busch, editor of the influential spend management blog SpendMatters.com. “But from a technical standpoint, the ability to effectively harness or navigate through all of that content has lagged far behind the ability to create it. Siderean’s Seamark Navigator allows our users to effectively and intuitively navigate the site to discover the information they are looking for. Siderean has demonstrated the ability to deliver a solution that meets the high standards we’ve set for information access.”

Seamark Navigator 4.5 is the latest version of Siderean’s enterprise-class information access platform, and its release is highlighted by improvements in usability, scalability, security and management capabilities. At the same time, Navigator 4.5 contains several ease-of-use enhancements that help Siderean deliver the industry’s most rapid time to value. Seamark Navigator 4.5 is built on open standards, which allows users to quickly and easily implement the software to build navigation applications and to create and manage their taxonomies.

Seamark Server Clusters enable massive scalability through improved cache support and sub-second response times over a utility computing grid. Other improvements to Seamark Navigator include:

• Application-enabling building blocks that perform business logic and interaction with data store.

• Asynchronous, independent text indexing and incremental node inclusion for increased scalability.

• External authentication support, granular permissions and role-based access control (RBAC) for enhanced security.

• Enhanced management functionality including analytics, feed/source management and cluster management capabilities.

“With the amount of and demand for information both inside and outside of the enterprise firewall growing exponentially, it has become increasingly clear that users want more access, better discovery and the ability to participate,” said Michael Schmitt, CEO of Siderean Software. “Traditional search solutions are simply not sophisticated enough to accurately shepherd users through the vast amounts of information that must be navigated in order to generate relevant results. By enhancing access, discovery and participation, Siderean’s Seamark Navigator 4.5 allows organizations to deliver a more intuitive and personalized navigation experience. Relational navigation lets users explore the full scope of relationships between information to generate the actionable context that is critical to relevance and real discovery, allowing users to become masters of discovery.”

About Siderean Software

Siderean Software Inc. enables organizations to navigate their digital universe. Siderean’s information access platform, Seamark Navigator, uses patented relational navigation technology to allow customers to keep pace with their exploding information access requirements. The next step in the evolution of information access, Siderean’s solutions break through traditional search technology limitations to deliver high-value, high-impact information to users in a personalized and intuitive way. Seamark provides users with a new way to aggregate and navigate through all their information to illuminate previously unseen relationships and create actionable context for information from across the enterprise and on the Web. Siderean enables media, high-tech and government organizations to effectively provision their information for unified discovery, access and participation. Founded in 2001, Siderean is backed by leading investment firms Clearstone Venture Partners, InnoCal Venture Capital and Red Rock Ventures. For more information about Siderean, visit www.siderean.com.

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Source: Siderean Software Inc.