Thunderstone Blog: Customized Search Engine & Search Software

April 1-3 Technology Event For Government I.T. Professionals

CLEVELAND, OH - March 25, 2008 - Thunderstone Software LLC (http://www.thunderstone.com), a long-time industry R&D leader in providing extremely robust search solutions for businesses, NGOs, governments and educational institutions, will participate as an exhibitor (Booth 2635) during FOSE 2008, the most comprehensive event for government information technology (IT) professionals, April 1-3, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

FOSE exhibition visitors to Booth 2635 will have an opportunity to learn more about Thunderstone's entire line of enterprise search products, including:

• TEXIS - Thunderstone's Texis is the only search engine developed from the ground up as a fully integrated SQL RDBMS optimized for full-text search, and it's the only relational database that can store and search text documents of unlimited size within standard database tables.
• THUNDERSTONE PARAMETRIC SEARCH APPLIANCE - The Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance provides standard SQL data retrieval and full-text key word searches combined with a user-selected filter on up to 50 data fields.
• WEBINATOR - The Webinator Web Index & Retrieval System allows a website administrator to easily create and provide a high quality retrieval interface to collections of HTML documents.
• THUNDERSTONE SEARCH APPLIANCE - The Thunderstone Search Appliance delivers a "plug-and-play" search solution that offers an attractive choice of perpetual licensing options and underlying functionality simply unmatched by any competitor in the marketplace.

Since 1976 FOSE (http://www.fose.com) has been in the forefront of the government technology revolution, contributing to many technological and creative developments that have helped shape public and private sector initiatives. FOSE remains the premier meeting and solutions marketplace for government technology and program management professionals.

Featuring groundbreaking education, smart solutions and unparalleled networking events and programs, FOSE brings together an audience that shares a passion for computing and technology. FOSE is produced by 1105 Media, Inc. (http://1105media.com), which publishes Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News, Government Health IT, Defense Systems and Washington Technology.

About Thunderstone
Thunderstone Software LLC (http://www.thunderstone.com) pioneered simultaneous searching of both structured and unstructured data with the Texis relational database optimized for full-text search. Since 1981 Thunderstone has continued to develop its global reputation as provider of the world's most powerful, scalable and flexible enterprise search solutions.

Sales contact: Fred Harmon

+1 216 820 2200 ext.105

Media contact: Peter Thusat

+1 216 820 2200 ext.118

Enterprise Search Pioneer Named to KMWorld Magazine's List for 2008

CLEVELAND, OH - March 20, 2008 - Thunderstone Software LLC, a long-time industry R&D leader in providing extremely robust search solutions for businesses, NGOs, governments and educational institutions, today announced that it has been named to KMWorld's 2008 list of 100 Companies That Matter In Knowledge Management.

The list, now in its eighth year, is compiled by knowledge management practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues. It recognizes organizations that have distinguished themselves in the KM marketplace through a single-minded commitment to ongoing improvement and agile innovation combined with a demonstrated understanding of the forces that affect, and will affect, customers.

Thunderstone's versatile line of enterprise search products includes:

TEXIS - Thunderstone's Texis is the only search engine developed from the ground up as a fully integrated SQL RDBMS optimized for full-text search, and it's the only relational database that can store and search text documents of unlimited size within standard database tables.

THUNDERSTONE PARAMETRIC SEARCH APPLIANCE - The Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance provides standard SQL data retrieval and full-text keyword searches combined with a user-selected filter on up to 50 data fields.

WEBINATOR - The Webinator Web Index & Retrieval System allows a website administrator to easily create and provide a high quality retrieval interface to collections of HTML documents.

THUNDERSTONE SEARCH APPLIANCE - The Thunderstone Search Appliance delivers a "plug-and-play" search solution that offers an attractive choice of perpetual licensing options and underlying functionality simply unmatched by any competitor in the marketplace.

About KMWorld
The leading information provider serving the Knowledge, Document and Content Management systems market, KMWorld (http://www.kmworld.com) informs more than 50,000 subscribers about the components and processes - and subsequent success stories - that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc.

About Thunderstone
Thunderstone Software LLC (http://www.thunderstone.com) pioneered simultaneous searching of both structured and unstructured data with the Texis relational database optimized for full-text search. Since 1981 Thunderstone has continued to develop its global reputation as provider of the world's most powerful, scalable and flexible enterprise search solutions.

Sales contact: Fred Harmon

+1 216-820-2200 ext.105

Media contact: Peter Thusat

+1 216-820-2200 ext.118

CEO of Enterprise Search Pioneer to Speak on “Bringing Together BI and Serach”

CLEVELAND, OH February 28, 2008 Thunderstone Software LLC (http://www.thunderstone.com), a long-time industry R&D leader in providing extremely robust search solutions for businesses, NGOs, governments and educational institutions, will participate as an exhibitor (Booth 2159) at the AIIM International Exposition & Conference at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center, March 3-6, 2008.

Thunderstones CEO John Turnbull and Ariba, Inc.s Lead Knowledge Architect Derek Matthews will also co-present a conference session (BUI03) with many practical insights related to how Ariba created an enterprise-wide knowledge management system that uses Thunderstones Texis RDBMS as its search solution.

Who: John Turnbull (Thunderstones CEO) and Derek Matthews (Aribas Lead Knowledge Architect)
What: “Enhance Search Capabilities with Structured Data: Bringing Together Business Intelligence and Search”
When: Tuesday, March 4th, 2008; 4:30 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.
Where: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA (http://www.mccahome.com/home.html)
Why: AIIM International Exposition & Conference (http://www.aiimexpo.com.)

AIIM exhibition visitors to Booth 2159 will have an opportunity to learn more about Thunderstones entire line of enterprise search products, including:

• TEXIS Thunderstones Texis is the only search engine developed from the ground up as a fully integrated SQL RDBMS optimized for full-text search, and its the only relational database that can store and search text documents of unlimited size within standard database tables.
• THUNDERSTONE PARAMETRIC SEARCH APPLIANCE The Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance provides standard SQL data retrieval and full-text key word searches combined with a user-selected filter on up to 50 data fields.
• WEBINATOR The Webinator Web Index & Retrieval System allows a website administrator to easily create and provide a high quality retrieval interface to collections of HTML documents.
• THUNDERSTONE SEARCH APPLIANCE The Thunderstone Search Appliance delivers a plug-and-play search solution that offers an attractive choice of perpetual licensing options and underlying functionality simply unmatched by any competitor in the marketplace.

The AIIM International Exposition & Conference is the worlds largest and oldest educational conference and exposition. The exposition and conference attracts business professionals and executive management seeking the latest technologies to capture, manage, share, and store documents and digital content to support business processes, comply with governmental regulations, drive down costs and gain the competitive advantage.

About Ariba, Inc.
Ariba, Inc. (>a href="http://www.ariba.com">http://www.ariba.com) is the leading provider of spend management solutions to help companies realize rapid and sustainable bottom line results. Successful companies around the world in every industry use Ariba Spend Management™ software and services. Ariba can be contacted in the U.S. at +1 650 390 1000.

Since 1976 FOSE (http://www.fose.com) has been in the forefront of the government technology revolution, contributing to many technological and creative developments that have helped shape public and private sector initiatives. FOSE remains the premier meeting and solutions marketplace for government technology and program management professionals.

Featuring groundbreaking education, smart solutions and unparalleled networking events and programs, FOSE brings together an audience that shares a passion for computing and technology. FOSE is produced by 1105 Media, Inc. (http://1105media.com/), which publishes Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News, Government Health IT, Defense Systems and Washington Technology.

About Thunderstone
Thunderstone Software LLC (http://www.thunderstone.com) pioneered simultaneous searching of both structured and unstructured data with the Texis relational database optimized for full-text search. Since 1981 Thunderstone has continued to develop its global reputation as provider of the worlds most powerful, scalable and flexible enterprise search solutions.

Sales contact: Fred Harmon

+1 216 820 2200 ext.105

Media contact: Peter Thusat

+1 216 820 2200 ext.118

Integrates Entity Extraction With Guided Navigation During The Creation Of Search Indexes

CLEVELAND, OH November 12, 2007 Thunderstone Software LLC (http://www.thunderstone.com) has licensed Inxight Software's SmartDiscovery Awareness Server and ThingFinder Professional SDK -- which intelligently identifies and extracts key entities (or “things”) from any text-data source. Now Thunderstone customers can add this valuable option to their Thunderstone Search Appliances, providing even better contextual query results with built-in recognition of “People,” “Places” and “Organizations” in the searched data.

Looking for a way to more quickly and accurately access valuable BI data residing in disparate forms and locations across an enterpise, Thunderstone wanted to improve actionable query results on the Thunderstone Search Appliance platform by incorporating “entity extraction with guided navigation” technology that automatically creates metadata based on the content of indexed documents.

Unlike others who have licensed similar tools from Inxight Software, Thunderstone has integrated these guided navigation capabilities into the actual crawling technology of the Thunderstone Search Appliances. Instead of applying on-the-fly entity extraction to filter the results of searches as queries are executed, Thunderstone Search Appliances apply the appropriate entity tags to all relevant data during the creation of the search indexes.

By eschewing the post-query “results filtering” approach to entity extraction and opting to take fuller advantage of automated meta-tagging at the time the indexing process takes place, the Thunderstone Search Appliances enable users to more rapidly and thoroughly search the entire contents of all included documents.

About Thunderstone
Thunderstone Software LLC (http://www.thunderstone.com) pioneered simultaneous searching of both structured and unstructured data with the Texis relational database optimized for full-text search. Since 1981 Thunderstone has continued to develop its global reputation as provider of the worlds most powerful, scalable and flexible enterprise search solutions.

Sales contact: Fred Harmon

+1 216 820 2200 ext.105

Media contact: Peter Thusat

+1 216 820 2200 ext.118

Brings More Texis SQL Advantages in an Easy-To-Implement Appliance

CLEVELAND, OH - November 6, 2007 - Thunderstone Software LLC (http://www.thunderstone.com) has added customizable “sort by” and “group by” capabilities to the Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance, further enhancing this newest product in Thunderstone's innovation-leading line of powerful and flexible enterprise search solutions.

Parametric or attribute-enhanced search helps users narrow down their field of search in an attempt to increase the chances of finding relevant information. It provides context to results that are based on unstructured information, and it allows an administrator or user to sort results in the most meaningful way.

For example, you may be searching for information on a particular subject but are only interested in results written by a specific author and published within a certain timeframe. The parameters (defined attributes) of “author” and “publish date“ help narrow the search for the precise information you want. Keyword, full-text search alone does not offer this opportunity.

Another example would be a search for a particular product-item description across an entire enterprise. Keyword, full-text search will certainly provide a good list of results from a variety of documents and content sources. But, what if you were only interested in the item's occurrence within a specific document type (say, a PO,) and one that was issued after a certain date and by a specific purchasing agent? Keyword, full-text search simply cannot provide this context for the information you're pursuing.

The Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance can index and make searchable large quantities of full-text data with defined attributes, as well as targeted web content, file server-based content, application database content and other enterprise-based content in a variety of popular formats. Key features of the new Appliance include:

• SQL plus Full-Text Search - Supporting full-text key word searches combined with a user-selected “filter” on up to 50 data fields, the Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance allows complex queries utilizing standard SQL commands while also taking advantage of capabilities such as concept-based, fuzzy logic, full-text searching and “bounded box” geographic searching.
• Sorting and Grouping - Administrators and searchers can optimize ‘findability’ by specifying how they want the Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance to sort and/or group its query results. Results can be sorted and grouped by any defined attributes in the data, and any of the available fields can be used to provide navigation links enabling the searcher to browse the results.
• Convenient Data Integration - The DataLoad API allows data to be populated from any source, and a wide variety of connectors have been developed for many common enterprise data sources. In addition, the Appliance can directly access existing databases. And built-in, advanced extraction tools can extract data from web pages or files that already exist.

The Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance provides an easy way to create applications that combine SQL structured queries with advanced full-text retrieval without programming. It delivers more of the power of Thunderstone Texis on a quickly deployed and easily maintained Appliance platform. Now organizations can have the application they want for less time and effort than they believed possible.

About Thunderstone
Thunderstone Software LLC (http://www.thunderstone.com) pioneered simultaneous searching of both structured and unstructured data with the Texis relational database optimized for full-text search. Since 1981 Thunderstone has continued to develop its global reputation as provider of the world's most powerful, scalable and flexible enterprise search solutions.

Sales contact: Fred Harmon

+1 216 820 2200 ext.105

Media contact: Peter Thusat

+1 216 820 2200 ext.118