Intensifying a still-nascent focus on the industrial sector, product information specialist Endeca today announced two new applications focused on discrete manufacturers.
In the words of John Andrews, Endeca’s head of industry marketing, the company is a search and information access software provider whose technology marries search with business intelligence. While Endeca traces its roots to the e-commerce revolution that closed out the last decade — it provides the smart search technology behind the websites of 40 of the top 100 e-tailers — the company has made “pretty heavy investment” in the manufacturing vertical in the past couple of years.
That investment shows up in the company’s latest applications. Both attack the much-maligned silo syndrome that has left many manufacturers with repositories of data that do not interact and, therefore, stifle efficiency.