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TERAGRAM LAUNCHES MyGADs ENTERPRISE EDITIONCollaborative Wiki Application Combines Easy Web Editor with Direct Answers Search to Allow Enterprise Users to Create, Share and Retrieve Information on Web and Mobile Devices Cambridge, Mass. - August 14, 2007 - Teragram (www.teragram.com), the leading provider of multilingual natural language processing technologies, announced today the launch of MyGADs Enterprise Edition, a collaborative technology that allows corporate users to work together on a unique, searchable "wiki" (a popular Web 2.0 publishing and collaboration tool, most notably used in Wikipedia) to share information among groups and retrieve data through multiple formats. Additionally, Teragram's patented Direct Answers technology allows members of the groups to search the stored information, returning the answer a user is seeking. For example, if one asks, "What is Bob's cell phone number?," MyGADs will search the user's pages and return the actual number. This search and retrieve capability works not only from an Internet browser, but also from mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs, as well as through common IM services. A group of users can create a GAD page using a simple Web editor within MyGADs.com, and access, edit, update, search for and share documents through Internet browsers, smartphones, mobile PDAs, J2ME-enabled devices and cell phones. Much like the consumer version of MyGADs.com, launched in March 2007, MyGADs Enterprise Edition allows users to query the information they store, using a personalized question-answering search engine. As opposed to traditional search, where a user receives a set of links as a result of a search query, Direct Answers returns a simple answer to a query. "E-mail is often an inefficient way to work together on a document or project - that's why wikis have become increasingly popular for businesses," said Yves Schabes, Ph.D., president and co-founder of Teragram. "But, until now, there's been no real way for people to search the contents of their wikis on a mobile device. Direct Answers makes the most of the limited real estate on a mobile device, giving the searchers only the results they are looking for. This type of technology is extremely important with today's mobile workforce. Information overload can get the most of people while they're on the road, but now they'll have the ability to search their information wherever they are."
Possible Uses for MyGADs Enterprise Edition Examples of ways in which companies can use the software include:
Taking the Wiki Mobile For instance, if a user added information to a corporate GAD wiki about the address of a trade show, a co-worker could query the information on a BlackBerry using a simple search form. By typing a sentence, question or phrase (such as "Address for trade show") into the GAD search engine, a user would receive Direct Answers from the corporate wiki. In return, the user would receive only the address of the conference center.
How It Works Rather than working via e-mail by sending document attachments back and forth, MyGADs makes collaboration efficient: documents are centralized in a single location shared by the group, pages are easily created and viewed, records are created for each user's version (each version can be easily compared) and information can be accessed and created from a computer or mobile phone. Central to MyGADs is the powerful, patented Direct Answers search engine, which provides precise answers (instead of full documents or links) to search queries. A traditional search engine retrieves documents that match a keyword query, and presents these linked HTML documents to the searcher in ranked order. However, most end-users are not looking for documents - they want precise answers to their questions. With standard search engines, users must first sift through numerous documents to find exactly what they're looking for. Teragram Direct Answers shortcuts this process and turns compact devices such as mobile phones into powerful answering systems. In addition to processing information stored in a GAD, Direct Answers technology can also connect to third-party applications such as online weather data, world clocks, enterprise databases, enterprise search engines, Microsoft Exchange Server and more. MyGADs connectors (Web services or application programming interfaces) easily connect to third-party or existing information systems.
For a full list of features included in MyGADs Enterprise Edition, go to: http://www.teragram.com/solutions/mygads.htm For documentation or to schedule a demonstration of MyGADs Enterprise Edition, contact us at http://www.teragram.com/info
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