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by Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor
Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 4:00:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Acquisition of Product Sight brings ad hoc data mining and Google-like intelligent search capabilities to its OpenPLM product development platform to help users find data stored in a variety of structured and unstructured formats. |
Taking a cue from the rising importance of search capabilities in desktop applications, Centric Software Inc. acquired a small company this week in an effort to bring Google-like search functions to its OpenPLM product development and program execution platform. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Centric's software, designed to complement existing PLM and ERP systems, provides business intelligence, dashboard functions, and connectivity capabilities in an effort to deliver visibility into product-related information tucked away in disparate systems. The newly acquired Product Sight Corp.'s FindView program works in a Google-like fashion to offer high-level search and classifications features, allowing a broad array of users to more intuitively perform intelligent searches on structured or unstructured data. By eventually combining the products into a single platform, Centric will allow users to tap into product-related data stored in multiple MCAD, EDA, CAE, PDM, ERP, SCM, and document-management systems by creating pre-defined reports, but also by performing ad hoc searches. Adding FindView to the mix will also allow Centric's customers to perform data-mining activities on unstructured information housed in emails or Word documents. [Click to continue] |
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