1. Alison Mancusi February 12, 2011 Overview of Exalead

2.  Who is Exalead?  Products and Solutions ◦ Web search ◦ eBusiness Solutions  Examples

3.  Founded in 2000 by search engine pioneers, Exalead is a global software provider in the enterprise and Web search markets.  Headquarters: Paris, France ◦ Employees Worldwide: 150 ◦ Customers Worldwide: 300  Exalead is a division of Dassault Systemes  3D based applications, PLM based applications, and Search based applications to more than 115,000 customers in 80 countries.  9000 employees  6000 partners

4. Navigation of results by dynamically-extracted and/or pre-defined categories, including user ratings, geography, related terms, price, file type and size, language, author and more At-a-glance scanning of results with content extracts, file type icons and thumbnail images Rich, application-independent content previews with search term highlighting User aids like support for natural language queries and multi-language search (even using non-Latin characters), related query (and content) suggestions, and fuzzy matching tools like phonetic and approximate spelling matches and spelling corrections

5.  Create an engaging user experience with seamless mash ups and unified search of internal or external content, regardless of source or format  Host innovative Web 2.0 features like social search, advanced image and video search, visual mapping of results, contextual Wiki information, etc.  Multilingual information indexing and search ◦ non-Latin characters  Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.  Ensure successful search with user aids like: ◦ faceted navigation of results, ◦ natural language queries, ◦ related query (and content) suggestions ◦ fuzzy matching tools like phonetic and approximate spelling matches and spelling corrections.

6. Search and navigation for the online catalog of interactive content (e- cards, ringtones, logos, games, etc.) for American Greetings, the world's largest publicly owned creator, manufacturer and distributor of social expression products

7. RealTravel.com, an award winning travel site that helps people plan trips with advice from other travelers, will use Exalead CloudView to deliver a 'smart' search- based application designed specifically for the travel industry.