Relevant, customized content

Only 10% to 15% of content delivered to a corporate portal is relevant to a specific business query, claims Vigil Technology’s president and CEO Gidi Cohen. He adds that most major search engines take six to nine months to index new information and are not particularly well-suited to customized searches. Cohen says his company has solved that problem with e-Sense 2.0, a significant upgrade to its core technology.

Version 2.0 allows users to define complex business landscapes without programming or administrative overhead. It delivers information from all public online sources--including corporate Web sites, news feeds and all dynamic content-- with 80% to 100% accuracy, the company asserts. Using patented technology, e-Sense evaluates source relevancy, finds the business map reflection and then builds upon it over time. It then evaluates messages based on content, user feedback, source history and relations and delivers appropriate content to the portal using XML. The software can detect and evaluate significant changes in information from the online sources it monitors within a day.

Fifteen new Business Topics have been added to e-Sense 2.0, bringing the total to nearly 100. The topics cover generic categories of business information, such as analyst reports, investment information, personnel changes and white papers. Each topic consists of codes and algorithms that are invisible to the user but ensure accurate classification of information.

Target customers are Fortune 2000 business, and pricing for enterprise deployment based on Vigil’s ASP model starts at $5,000 per month.