ISYS(R) Search Software Announces Arrival of the ISYS 8 Product Suite; Newest Version From Enterprise Search Pioneers Offers Comprehensive Solution That Addresses Full Information Access Needs, From Search to Navigation and Discovery

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2006--ISYS(R) Search Software (www.isys-search.com), a global supplier of enterprise search solutions for business and government, today announced the immediate general availability of ISYS 8, the company's next-generation suite for search, navigation and discovery. Designed to address the entire scope of information access needs, the ISYS 8 suite is comprised of three core products: ISYS:desktop 8, ISYS:web 8 and ISYS:sdk 8.

With the release of the new suite, ISYS goes beyond the standard "search and retrieval" model by including several new features that address key enterprise search requirements, such as:

-- Text mining, e-discovery and expertise location via ISYS Entities

-- Power and scalability through content caching, scripting and federated search support

-- Adherence to business rules via tuning and editorial controls such as Best Bets

-- Full-featured search analytics capabilities through enhanced ISYS SearchTrends

-- Broader content support, including Microsoft SharePoint and Office 2007

"ISYS 8 takes enterprise search to an entirely new level and offers a much more complete solution than competing mid-market products," said Ian Davies, founder and managing director, ISYS Search Software. "With ISYS 8, we further distance ourselves from limited and inflexible appliance-based search systems, while remaining much more reasonably priced than competing software-based solutions. What's more, ISYS continues to enhance the scale and extensibility necessary for satisfying the requirements of sophisticated implementations and ensuring all customers derive maximum value from their enterprise search investments."

Core to the ISYS 8 suite is ISYS Entities, which automatically extracts and displays the "Who, What and Where" of a given search, thus enabling users to better understand the context of their results and the connections and associations present between their search terms and the content. Highlighting everything from people and locations to email addresses, ISYS Entities enables users to drill down, locate topic experts and discover information they might not have known existed. ISYS Entities is even offered in ISYS:desktop, making ISYS:desktop the first desktop search application to offer automatic entity extraction.

In addition to ISYS Entities, the ISYS 8 suite includes a host of capabilities, all of which are designed to ensure employees spend drastically less time looking for information and more time working with and benefiting from it. These include:

ISYS:web 8

-- Best Bets -- This easy-to-use tool is designed to enable administrators to ensure that a specific document appears as the first result when given a certain query.

-- ISYS Federator -- ISYS:web 8 now offers the ability to federate queries across remote indexes. With ISYS Federator, companies can include content collections from multiple ISYS:web servers as if these indexes were maintained locally.

-- Microsoft SharePoint -- ISYS now offers out-of-the-box support for Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server, thus enabling organizations to include SharePoint content in their ISYS indexes while adhering to SharePoint's security settings.

-- Enhanced SearchTrends -- ISYS:web 8 now interprets ISYS SearchTrends data and presents suggestions based on its findings. This tool provides organizations with the ability to analyze search behavior and modify search features to better cater to their users.

ISYS:desktop 8

-- Enhanced Interface -- ISYS:desktop 8 now delivers an even more intuitive interface, thanks to collapsible menus and a built-in search window.

-- Associated Documents -- To help users better understand the context of a given result, ISYS now displays a search result's associated documents -- particularly handy when dealing with emails and their attachments.

-- Enhanced Index Management -- Administrators now have access to sophisticated tools for managing multiple indexes, thus ensuring a more seamless experience with large deployments.

Core ISYS 8 Features

-- New Document Formats -- ISYS 8 now supports .wma, .wmv and .xps formats, as well as Microsoft Office 2007 formats (based on the current Microsoft beta).

-- Content Caching -- Content caching offers the ability to rapidly extract portions of large or slow documents, thus delivering faster browsing, summarization and analysis.

-- 'Filter By' Query Operators -- With ISYS 8, users can now apply filters directly to their queries, using operators like FILENAMELIKE and FILEDATEAFTER.

-- Full Unicode Support -- ISYS 8 expands on the technology's existing multi-lingual capabilities to enable true Unicode support.

-- Improved Performance -- ISYS 8 offers even faster indexing than was possible with Version 7, with indexing speeds of up to 20 GB per hour.

About ISYS:web 8

ISYS:web 8 is ISYS Search Software's eighth-generation search technology for websites, intranets, portals and custom web applications. ISYS:web 8 can be implemented and configured in a matter of hours thanks to ISYS Site Designer, which replaces the need for HTML coding with point-and-click tools for customizing and configuring the layout and functionality of search implementations. Administrators and end-users benefit from capabilities that include lightning-fast searches across large volumes of data, federation, remote administration, search analytics and reporting, entity extraction, categorization and scripting support.

About ISYS:desktop 8

ISYS:desktop 8 is ISYS Search Software's enterprise-class desktop search solution. Offering comprehensive search, navigation and discovery, ISYS:desktop 8 scales from individual PCs to large corporate networks, whether maintained locally or dispersed geographically. With a mature, user-friendly interface and support for more than 30 languages and 150 different file formats, ISYS:desktop delivers a superior solution to competing desktop search products.

About ISYS:sdk 8

ISYS:sdk 8 enables software developers and system integrators to incorporate the power of the ISYS search API into custom applications and solutions, whether for commercial distribution or internal use. ISYS:sdk 8 has been used as an embedded search solution for a variety of different applications, including email archiving, e-discovery, records and document management, recruitment and document imaging applications.

Additional information on ISYS 8 pricing, customers, features and trial software can be obtained by emailing info@isys-search.com or visiting http://www.isys-search.com.

About ISYS(R) Search Software

Established in 1988, ISYS Search Software is a global supplier of enterprise search solutions for business and government. The company's award-winning software suite offers a broad range of products designed to enable search, navigation and discovery across desktops, networks, websites, intranets and custom applications. ISYS has been deployed by thousands of organizations operating in a variety of industries, including government, legal, law enforcement, financial services, healthcare and recruitment.

ISYS serves its global base of customers via operations in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. The company's customers include the International Data Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Boeing, Cisco Systems, EMC Legato, the IRS, the Miami Police Department, Perkins Coie, TOWER Software, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice. Additional information can be obtained by phone at 800-992-4797 and via the Web at http://www.isys-search.com/.