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Thursday, February 9, 2012 – 2PM (UTC/GMT)
Ready or not, Big Data is here. It’s real. And it’s bringing exciting new opportunities to drive innovation, ramp up productivity, and create groundbreaking new user experiences.

Once too voluminous, variable and/or fast moving for most organizations to exploit, revolutionary technologies like search-based applications (SBAs) are now making it economically and technically feasible for organizations of all sizes and types to reap the benefits of Big Data.

In fact, Exalead SBAs have been enabling businesses to safely, easily, and cost-effectively capitalize on Big Data opportunities for years—using the information assets they already own.

To learn more about how you too can capitalize on Big Data opportunities today while positioning yourself for changes to come tomorrow, join us on February 9th for an insightful look at real-world Big Data use cases encompassing:

- Sentiment analysis
- Database enrichment
- Exploratory analytics
- Real-time operational reporting
- High-impact, process-specific business applications

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Tuesday, 24 January, 2012 – 4PM (UTC/GMT)
Join us for this historic webinar as speaker Alexandre Figuière introduces Exalead’s first vertical SBA release, the Virtual Spare Parts Manager.

Developed in close cooperation with Exalead’s industrial clients, this innovative application helps companies rapidly break through the big challenges to accomplishing a deceptively straightforward mission: knowing their global inventory in order to deliver the right part to the right place as quickly and economically as possible.

You’ll learn how the search-based approach can help you overcome the persistent challenges to fulfilling this mission with a rapid, safe and cost-effective solution for optimizing your inventory levels and maximizing your supply chain effectiveness. It is, in effect, a simple solution to a simple mission in a highly complex world, one that can bring immediate rewards in enhanced profitability, customer satisfaction and product quality.

Specifically, you’ll learn how the Virtual Spare Parts Manager:

- Employs agile semantic technologies to produce a real-time, unified view of parts data worldwide (including PLM data and supply data siloed in ERPs, databases, spreadsheets and legacy VT/mainframe apps)
- Offers a simple, “Google-style” way for anyone to locate parts
- Automatically generates a real-time, interactive dashboard of global KPIs
- Supports alerting based on your own business rules

If you are a supply chain manager, spare parts manager, stock manager, logistics manager, production manager or general manager in an asset-intensive industry like manufacturing or utilities, you won’t want to miss this event!

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NovaQuest is a leading solution and services provider for business information access and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.  In addition to reselling Dassalut software, NovaQuest is staffed with technical subject matter experts who provide industry-specific implementation and customization services for many DS brands (CATIA, ENOVIA etc.).

Now, leveraging its partnership with Dassault Systemes, NovaQuest has built its new search-based application solution, NovaQuest VisiQuity, on top of the Exalead® CloudView platform. The application combines search, tagging, preview and document assembly capabilities to accelerate the delivery of enterprise information to key decision makers.

The solution boosts productivity by enabling users to overcome typical search and retrieval process inefficiencies, and to benefit from collaboration and document assembly capabilities that are enhanced beyond typical desktop applications’ cut-and-paste functions.

Have you ever heard about the annual International World Wide Web event?

If not, the WWW Conference series aims to provide the world a global forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture.

The conferences bring together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures – indeed all who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer.

For its 2012 edition, the 21st International WWW Conference will be held in Lyon-France from April 16th to 20th. Exalead will be part of this event as a sponsor & participant.

For a quick overview of our vision of the future of the Web, we invite you to read the informative interview with François Bourdoncle, Exalead co-founder.

Since our Labs’ website was beginning to look a bit old-fashioned and its content needed some improvement, we have decided to completely redesign and update it.

Now, we are happy to introduce you to the new version of Exalabs’ website: http://labs.exalead.com/

In our latest additions, come have a look at MuMa, an innovative search engine dedicated to music. You can also access the new version of Voxalead.

And if you are keen to know more about the people behind innovation, you can meet them over here.

Thank you Emmanuel, Antoine, Georges et Marie-Cécile for this great result

We hope you will enjoy it!

Improve your business by discovering our Rome and London seminars.

With the evolution of data, finding the right information at the right time is not enough. The flashing change of Business Intelligence environment requires platforms to be more powerful and efficient. Our Exalead CloudView solution extends the functional scope of classic BI…

We invite you to learn more about our platform and its applications:

Mike Davis, Senior Analyst at Ovum, will introduce “The New BI” at our London seminar, “ The changing face of BI” on November 17^th from 3PM to 6PM.

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Laurent Couillard, Exalead CEO, will speak at our Rome seminar on November 15th from 5PM to 7:30 PM.

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Exalead is participating in the 2011 Edition of Architecture Week.

This year the event takes place in nine cities in the world  from October 10 to 14.

Exalead is the Platinum sponsor of the Toulouse’s event, Thursday, Oct. 13.

We will co-animate the plenary conference in the early afternoon with Capgemini:
Business Information Management supported by Search-Based Applications (14:00-14:45)

and Olivier Astier, Project Manager Exalead, will lead a workshop in the morning:
Riding the semantic wave from E-commerce to IT (10:15-10:45)

>> Discover the agenda

The world of business intelligence is changing. The user community is demanding new forms of business intelligence. Together, these new forms are called The New BI.

Most of these new forms require technologies that have been around for some time, but have been alien for most business intelligence environments until now: search technology and mashup technology. Extending business intelligence environments with those two technologies significantly enhances their capabilities.

At the publication of the White Paper “The New BI” written by Rick Van der Lans, we invite you to learn how these technologies allow the creation of new forms of business intelligence applications which enable users to analyze structured and unstructured data in an integrated fashion for improved decision-making. Learn More or Register Now!

Eric Rogge, Director of Marketing, Exalead and Stan Gibson, Managing Editor, IDG Enterprise Custom Solutions Group invite you to discover their web seminar in order to better understand how Search-based Applications can help companies to meet the big challenges of Analytics, Social Media and Big Data:

- How applying Search-based Applications to analytics when traditional tools are inadequate?

- How to perform quantitative analytics on web content?

- How to gain viral adoption amongst untrained users for analytics?

- How information mash-ups are changing our management dashboards?

- How to join enterprise data with data from unrelated web sources?

>> LAUNCH PRESENTATION

Dassault Aviation announced, during the last Paris Air Show, late June, the deployment of a Search-Based Applications dedicated to flight line crew and mechanics.

Developed in less than a month by Exalead and its partner Bull, the application allows instant post-flight access to all the maintenance data used for diagnostics support.

Several hundred thousand records – aircraft, system and equipment repair records and other maintenance reports – contained in different databases are collected, indexed and linked together by high-performance search algorithms.

Comment from Jean Sass, CIO, Information System Division, Dassault Aviation:

“With Exalead, we have been able to solve problems that we could not resolve with traditional enterprise management solutions.
Within a few weeks, we had access to effective dashboards, adapted to the requirements of a wide variety of activities and capable of aggregating heterogeneous data sources.”

>> Read the Press Release