ISYS Search Software
Overview
Headquartered in Sydney and with operations worldwide, ISYS Search Software (ISYS) is a global leader in embedded Enterprise Search and universal information access solutions that extend beyond the desktop. Its technology changes how organizations do business - empowering employees to find and extract the precise information they need, from anywhere in their organization, on any device, in any format and in any language – in a matter of seconds. Boosting productivity and performance.
Today, ISYS software applications power more than 16,000 enterprises worldwide, such as Volkswagen, Boeing, Glaxo SmithKline, Visa, Exxon Mobil and the US Drug Enforcement Agency. Its core data extraction technology is embedded in the product solutions of many of the world's largest software vendors, including SAP, Sybase (an SAP Company), MarkLogic, HP, Attensity, EMC, Equivio, InterLegis, Proofpoint and Detica.
History
1988: Company is founded by Ian Davies in Australia, and develops a prototype text retrieval software suitable for use in large databases.
1991: PC Week Magazine writes a favourable review that assists in attempts to break into the US market.[1]
1997: ISYS 5.0 is released with support for Office 97, PDFs and emails.
2000: ISYS establishes a presence in EMEA (UK).
2007: ISYS for Linux is released.
2008: New CEO (Scott Coles) is appointed.
2009: ISYS File Readers product is launched (for technology partners) and ISYS Enterprise Server for larger enterprise organizations.
2010: ISYS Document Filters is released, to compete with solutions from Oracle (Outside In) and Autonomy (KeyView).
2011: ISYS Document Filters 10.0 is released, along with the new Enterprise 10.0 suite of applications.
Technology & Solutions
The focus for ISYS has always been high-performance search for the enterprise. But over the years, the company has successfully moved beyond the desktop to develop solutions for business-critical applications such as virtual data aggregation, enterprise content management, e-discovery, text analytics, data loss prevention, as well as enterprise search.
At the heart of the ISYS technology model, and driving every one of its enterprise applications, is its core Document Filters analytics 'engine'. Essentially, it is a set of connectors that link to every source of information that exists within an enterprise, and which enables users to extract and display in high definition every piece of content contained in a file. Today, this technology is the key catalyst driving content mining and intelligence gathering across the whole ISYS product family.
The Document Filters technology is licensed to major software vendors who embed it within their own customer solutions. ISYS Document Filters enables organizations to search, process, analyze and extract insights from all of their unstructured data - such as emails, documents and presentations - content which conventional database management systems are typically unable to handle. In doing so, organizations are now able to get a more complete picture of all their data and extract maximum business value from it.
The IP behind Document Filters was developed in-house by ISYS and is the focus of continual improvement - involving significant partner collaboration. Today, ISYS is arguably the only vendor in the text analytics space that can say this.
When embedded in the company's enterprise search applications (Enterprise Server, Workgroup, Workgroup Web and QuickSite), the analytics engine is known as the ISYS 1-Click FileFinder(tm).