Vivisimo

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Vivisimo was a privately held technology company in

Yippy, Inc.
in 2010.

Vivisimo specialized in federated search and document clustering. For example, Vivisimo clustering could divide the results of a search for "cell" into groups including "biology", "battery", and "prison".

Vivisimo software supported both structured and unstructured information.

History

Vivisimo was founded in 2000 by three computer science researchers at Carnegie Mellon University: Chris Palmer, Jerome Pesenti, and Raul Valdes-Perez. The name was taken from the Spanish superlative adjective vivísimo meaning "very lively" or "very clever."

In October 2008, Vivisimo was awarded the contract to power the search portion of FirstGov.gov (now called

United States federal government.[2]

In 2012,

Big Data Analytics capabilities .[1][3][4][5]

Products

Velocity was sold as an installed or hosted application to enterprises, governments, and

OEMs
. With Vivisimo providing additional professional services.

Velocity's social search features allowed users to contribute to organizational content by tagging, voting, annotating and sharing search results. The contributions are instantly indexed in new searches.

References

  1. ^ a b IBM Completes Acquisition of Vivisimo
  2. ^ Gary Price (2005-09-26). "Vivisimo and MSN to Power FirstGov". Search Engine Watch. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
  3. ^ Data discovery and exploration - IBM acquires Vivisimo
  4. ^ IBM Advances Big Data Analytics with Acquisition of Vivisimo
  5. ^ IBM Acquires Enterprise Search Software Company Vivisimo To Boost Big Data Analytics