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Search Tools Product Report

ELISE Smart Search and Match

Product Information

Price: Contact company.
Platform: Windows, Linux.

Features

• Designed to improve search results from databases.
• Main implementations have been in matching resumes to job openings, and biometric identification.
  
• Comes with application programming interfaces that make integration simple, including Java, .NET, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, more.
  
• Replicates the data from your databases into its own optimized system for use by your match-enabled applications.
  
• Data security can be configured by user level or password access.
  
• Set up realtime synchronization, near-time synchronization (batch synchronization) or identify events that will trigger a synchronization process.
  
• Scales from to millions of documents across multiple servers. Components can be distributed redundantly over multiple servers or data centers.
  
• Bi-directional searching adjusts queries to structured data.
  
• Converts terms based on the domain vocabulary.
  
• Weights criteria based on importance of the match.
  
• Fuzzy search returns a ranked list of the relevant hits from best fit to least, even if there's no exact match.
  
• Sub-second response times across databases containing millions of records.
  
• Performance is linearly scalable.
  
• Administrators can add, change, or remove properties without affecting system availability.
  
• Includes trace manager and data analyzer tools that track most common queries, most-used features, more.

Articles & Reviews

• Safety in Numbers: New Advances in Biometric Database Technologies Journal of Documents and Identity : Issue 17, 2006, by Peter Went
  
  Abstract of an article by the CEO of WCC about the application of fuzzy matching in biometrics.


• WCC pattern software based on 17-year old gamer's dreams The Inquirer: October 19, 2003
  
  Brief interview with Peter Went, the founder of WCC, about the creation of ELISE.

Examples

• JobStairs - Bilingual German job search site.
• Randstad Staffing - International staffing agency servicing office, industrial, professional, creative, and technical fields.
• Jobcentre Plus - UK site provides resources, help and advice on jobs and training.