Relational Navigation Technology Brings Context to Information Access

El Segundo, Calif., January 29, 2007

Siderean Software, a pioneer in relational navigation solutions, today announced that the company has received United States patent number 7,146,362 for its faceted metadata navigation technology. Siderean’s unique relational navigation solution allows end-users to gain greater access to and control over search results from enterprise and Web-based information resources, enabling a breakthrough user experience in accessing information from multiple sources. Siderean’s patented solution groups metadata facets in a relational navigation engine, providing end-users with the ability to manipulate and steer through search results with the industry’s most dynamic and flexible navigation solution.

Today, business success is increasingly defined by how well you can get information to your audience, not only channeled among your own diverse operations but also connected beyond the enterprise with customers, suppliers and partners. Information flows from everywhere, all of the time and in increasing amounts. You have to channel the flow or risk losing your audience, customers or market relevance. With other search and navigation solutions, users are forced to “drill down” through search results after making a query. With each subsequent click, query responses are more specific, limiting the information sources and options for further discovery. Siderean’s patented technology performs the query on faceted metadata, allowing users to tumble across search results, moving between data repositories at any step along the way. As a result, users are able to illuminate relationships hidden in enterprise and Web content through an enhanced discovery process.

“In today’s “network-centric” enterprise much of the critical information is unstructured, resides outside the enterprise and is not readily “managed” or “controlled” in the traditional I.T. sense. Participation is a critical value and Siderean’s patented relational navigation solution sets a new standard that will be a key component for those organizations looking to adopt Web 2.0 ideals in order to stay relevant.” said Brad Allen, CTO and Founder of Siderean. “This patent is a powerful endorsement of the unique value we’re delivering to our customers through our relational navigation technology. With the scope of information within the enterprise and across the Web growing exponentially every day, organizations worldwide are now beginning to realize that enterprise search is simply not enough as people demand more social interaction with information. Relational navigation opens pathways to improved information discovery, and this patent validates our position as leader in Information Access and our vision for the future of the industry.”

Siderean’s information access platform provides organizations with award-winning solutions for navigating and managing all types of structured and unstructured content across the organization and Web. Siderean’s flagship product, Seamark Navigator, dramatically enhances exploration and discovery from classic enterprise search applications while also enabling knowledge workers to understand the scope and relationship of information available to them to achieve more relevant, timely results for optimized decision making. With Seamark Navigator, users quickly gain a bird’s eye view of all the data that is relevant to them before intuitively navigating down to a bug’s eye view of the specific information they need, giving them an organized and faceted, 360 degree view of the person, place or thing they are exploring. By leveraging Web-based standards for easy integration with existing enterprise applications and building graphical relationships dynamically, companies are able to achieve a faster return on investment and lower cost of ownership.

Siderean’s unique approach to navigation overcomes the functional and business limitations of today’s enterprise and online commerce search tools. Seamark Navigator goes beyond the inherent limitations of enterprise search by displaying the entire scope of available digital assets, and incorporates precision search to help users quickly retrieve what they need – whether it be data files, images, web pages, blogs or RSS. By revealing the full scope of digital content in a single view, and providing a contextual framework for quickly discovering and selecting the information of most value to them, enterprise users and information consumers can improve their creative output, increase their productivity, and make smarter decisions faster.

About Siderean
Siderean Software, Inc. enables organizations to navigate their digital universe. Siderean’s information access platform, Seamark Navigator, uses patented relational navigation technology to allow customers to keep pace with their exploding information access requirements. The next step in the evolution of information access, Siderean’s solutions break through traditional search technology limitations to deliver high-value, high-impact information to users in a personalized and intuitive way. Seamark provides users with a new way to aggregate and navigate through all their information to illuminate previously unseen relationships and create actionable context for information from across the enterprise and on the Web. Siderean enables Media, High Tech and Government organizations to effectively provision their information for unified discovery, access and participation. Founded in 2001, Siderean is backed by leading investment firms Clearstone Venture Partners, InnoCal Venture Capital and Red Rock Ventures. For more information about Siderean, please visit www.siderean.com.