Funnelback Announces New Independent Analyst Review of Funnelback Search from Ovum/The Butler Group

May 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Funnelback, the global search engine technology and services company, today announced the availability of a new, independent review of Funnelback Search from leading analysts Ovum / The Butler Group.

The new ‘Technology Audit’ is a comprehensive third party assessment of Funnelback’s search technology, its features and its pros and cons. The report also describes and assesses Funnelback as a company, its market position and its threats and opportunities. The result is a concise eight page report which is available as a free download from the Squiz website.

Ovum's key conclusions, in their words, as featured in the report:
•   Funnelback Enterprise and Funnelback SaaS are comprehensive enterprise search and retrieval (ESR) solutions that can be used to search multiple heterogeneous sources, including intranets, enterprise applications, and websites, to provide highly relevant results.
•   The technology is highly functional, scalable, and multilingual… with impressive relevance-ranking, tuning, and search-quality features.
•   Ovum is particularly impressed with the behavioral learning capability of Funnelback’s search system, which monitors and continuously “learns” users’ click-through behavior.
•   The solution offers a level of transparency that allows search administrators to see how Funnelback is performing regarding relevance-ranking and provide them with actionable information.
•   Funnelback Enterprise and SaaS also offer what Ovum considers to be an impressive set of reporting capabilities… The Pattern Analyser tool gives users real-time intelligence on changes in search patterns for website and enterprise search.
•   A unique selling point is that the solution has relatively low deployment overheads and can be rapidly installed and set up, reducing the risks associated with implementation.
•   The deployment and licensing options make the solution applicable to a wide range of commercial and public-sector organizations… The company has significant presence and experience in the government, healthcare, and higher-education verticals.

The report is free and available for download here:
http://www.squiz.co.uk/funnelback-enterprise-search/revie...

About Funnelback

Funnelback is a global search engine technology and services company. Its search technology allows your staff or clients to find key information held on websites, intranets, databases and many other internal information repositories. This drives greater ROI on your information assets, more satisfied users and more efficient and productive staff. In July 2009, Funnelback was acquired by Squiz, the Supported Open Source CMS Solutions company. Funnelback processes millions of search requests each day by organisations such as the London School of Economics, UK Electoral Commission, the National Research Council of Canada, New Zealand Automobile Association, the Australian and Queensland Governments, Westpac Bank and Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

For further information:
http://www.funnelback.com
http://www.squiz.co.uk

About Ovum / The Butler Group

Ovum combines the ICT expertise of Datamonitor Technology, the Butler Group and Ovum, to produce independent and objective analysis, which enables their clients to make better business and technology decisions.

For further information:
http://www.ovumkc.com/

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Funnelback is a global search engine technology and services company. Its search technology allows your staff or clients to find key information held on websites, intranets, databases and many other internal information repositories. This drives greater ROI on your information assets, more satisfied users and more efficient and productive staff. In July 2009, Funnelback was acquired by Squiz, the Supported Open Source CMS Solutions company. Funnelback processes millions of search requests each day by organisations such as the London School of Economics, UK Electoral Commission, the National Research Council of Canada, New Zealand Automobile Association, the Australian and Queensland Governments, Westpac Bank and Australian Broadcasting Corporation.