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Comtech Services, Inc.
http://www.comtech-serv.com
The law firm of Holland and Hart not only needed a way to provide access
to information in multiple repositories from their intranet, they also
needed security features to ensure only those with the correct
permissions could see certain files, robust search facilities based on
full-text and document metadata, and the ability to see search hits on
the relevant page of what could be a 600-page document (rather than
downloading an entire file to determine if it contained the correct
information). Holland and Hart found that functionality in Verity's new
offering, Portal One (the cost of the product starts at $65,000).
Portal One provides access to information in multiple repositories based
on predetermined rules that allow only users with the proper permissions
to access certain information. In addition to providing access to
information, Portal One also converts documents (including PDF, Word,
and PowerPoint) into HTML and can automatically generate a table of
contents, which Holland and Hart found to be the best feature of the
product. After performing a search, the firm now has the ability to look
at the relevant page of a search hit without having to download a large
600-page PDF file to determine if they have found the document they
want.
NASD, the parent company of the NASDAQ Stock Market and the American
Stock Exchange, also uses Portal One to give employees easier access to
their distributed intranet. NASD found that their intranet had been set
up without proper consideration of the business needs and processes that
would arise over time. With Portal One's Intelligent Classification, NASD
has been able to re-organize their information to support their current
business needs and objectives, in addition to providing access to that
information.
Because Verity Portal One is a relatively new entry into the portal
industry, the product is not as stable as some similar products on the
market, but it does boast a long and strong history in the search
industry.
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