CAMBRIDGE, MA – October 19, 2009 – MetaCarta,
Inc., the leading provider of geographic
search solutions, today announced that it has joined the Endeca Extend partner program to
help customers quickly and easily integrate geographic content search directly
into the Endeca
Information Access Platform. Leveraging the extensibility of the McKinley
Platform, and specifically Endeca’s Content Acquisition System (CAS),
MetaCarta can build integrations to a public application-programming interface
(API) supported by Endeca. In addition to a lower cost of ownership, through
the innovative Endeca Extend program, MetaCarta now offers customers quick and easy integration of Endeca
records for the unrestricted exploration of unstructured content. By providing an integrated search and navigation experience that
combines MetaCarta Geographic Search with Endeca, joint customers can offer geographically based search results to their end users.
“Endeca and our business partners solve specific
high-ROI business problems with lower cost-of-ownership, faster
time-to-results, and greater value than any alternative,” said Jason Purcell, senior vice president of
marketing and product management, Endeca. “Through
our partnership with MetaCarta, our customers can seamlessly integrate our
complementary technologies to help customers make better choices online and
employees make better daily decisions”
MetaCarta Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (GSRP)
identifies places and points-of-interest in text documents, news feeds, email,
reports, web pages and blogs, and assigns latitude and longitude coordinates so
that the content can be searched, retrieved, and visually displayed on a map.
Enterprise organizations and public sector agencies are now able to geo-enable
all of their content in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, or
mixed-language documents so it can be searched and used in location-based
applications to help visualize trends, generate new revenue, drive premium
services, and enhance intelligence analysis.
Through the Endeca Extend program, Endeca and MetaCarta allow customers to use extracted meta-data
to provide new facets for Guided Navigation, cluster related topics, offer
landing pages, and improve search relevancy. Endeca customers can easily run
their data through an Endeca Extend partner solution, extract additional meta-data
elements from the text, and append that meta-data to the original content. This
lowers the integration costs and adds significant structure to the content to
enhance the overall user experience. The pre-built integrations allow joint
customers the ability to implement best-of-breed technologies without
sacrificing ease of integration.
“Combining
our geographic search and referencing solutions with Endeca’s search platform
will enable documents from our
customer’s sources to appear in any map from a high-end GIS to a globe viewer
like Google Earth,” said Ken Tomaselli, Vice President of Sales at MetaCarta. “We are thrilled to
partner with Endeca on this offering as it represents huge growth potential.”
About MetaCarta
MetaCarta,
Inc. is the leading provider of geographic search and referencing solutions.
MetaCarta products make data and unstructured content
"location-aware," making that information geographically relevant.
Using a map interface, these innovative solutions make it possible for
customers to discover, visualize, and act on important location-based
information. Founded by a team of MIT researchers in 2001, MetaCarta is
privately held, with US headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts and offices in
Vienna, Virginia and Houston, Texas and resellers worldwide. For more
information, please visit www.metacarta.com or MetaCarta Resource Center.
About
Endeca
Endeca is a
leading provider of search applications. Search apps built on Endeca’s
technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds
of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers.
Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information Access Platform, a major
enterprise search innovationbased
on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let
users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved
information visibility, customers make better choices, and employees better
decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access
information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading
organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense
Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the
Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in
North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
Contacts:
Alison
Durant
Director,
Corporate Marketing & Communications
+
617.674.6335
adurant@endeca.com