New Endeca module

Silver Creek Systems and Endeca have announced the immediate availability of DataLens Foundry for Endeca, a new software module for the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP) that automatically extracts and standardizes all product data characteristics from one or multiple sources for use in information access applications.

The companies report the module has been developed for retailers, manufacturers, distributors and other enterprises that deal with large quantities of heterogeneous product information. It's designed to work with product catalogs, product information management (PIM) systems, master data management (MDM) systems and other product data repositories. The module extracts and normalizes attributes and characteristics from product data and feeds them directly into the Endeca IAP, where they can be used to optimize Endeca’s guided navigation system.