Data dancing

Endymion has introduced the Mambo Enterprise Navigation Portal. The company reports the offering is built upon a navigation engine said to enable users to easily navigate large databases--unstructured or structured--without the need for extensive corporate application development and user training.

The company further says Mambo is as intuitive to use as a simple search tool, yet enables complex research to be completed quickly through knowledge management capabilities that include indexes, iterative navigation and relevance ranking.

Mambo provides access to a wide range of disparate data sources, says Endymion, including external syndicated unstructured data such as libraries and abstracts, internal unstructured data such as presentations and PDF files, Web pages and e-mail. It also integrates with existing document management systems and provides access to structured data from sources such as SAP, Oracle, Siebel and PeopleSoft. Designed for scalability, Mambo utilizes dynamic load balancing to support hundreds of concurrent inquiries and access to millions of pages, says the company.

Additionally, Endymion says, Mambo automatically locates and extracts information enterprisewide based on actual terms and phrases residing within documents and delivers the “best pages” through an intuitive user interface. Further, the company claims, it drastically reduces maintenance by eliminating the need to characterize content into pre-existing classification schemes.

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