Siderean Software Receives Patent for Faceted Metadata Navigation
1/30/07 - El Segundo-based Siderean Software, the leading provider of relational navigation solutions, today announced that the company has received United States patent number 7,146,362 for its faceted metadata navigation technology. Siderean’s relational navigation solution allows end-users to gain greater access to and control over search results from enterprise and web-based information resources.
The company says that its patented solution groups metadata facets in a relational navigation engine, providing end-users with the ability to manipulate and steer through search results with the industry’s most dynamic and flexible navigation solution.
“In today’s 'network-centric' enterprise much of the critical information is unstructured, resides outside the enterprise and is not readily ‘managed’ or ‘controlled’ in the traditional IT sense. Participation is a critical value and Siderean’s patented relational navigation solution sets a new standard that will be a key component for those organizations looking to adopt web 2.0 ideals in order to stay relevant.” said Brad Allen, CTO and founder of Siderean. “This patent is a powerful endorsement of the unique value we’re delivering to our customers through our relational navigation technology. With the scope of information within the enterprise and across the web growing exponentially every day, organizations worldwide are now beginning to realize that enterprise search is simply not enough as people demand more social interaction with information. Relational navigation opens pathways to improved information discovery, and this patent validates our position as leader in information access and our vision for the future of the industry.”
In a separate announcement, the company claimed record revenue growth for 2006 resulting from several key customer wins, including the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Siderean’s information access platform provides organizations with solutions for navigating and managing structured and unstructured content. The company’s flagship product is the Seamark Navigator.
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