Information from former Northern Light CEO David Seuss about his re-purchase of the search technology at the divine bankruptcy auction, background information about the NL's earlier struggles and business difficulties.
Story of the reacquisition and quotes from CEO David Seuss. The purchase price, $81,000 is a fraction of the January 2002 acquisition price of at least $12 million.
Return of Northern Light? Only Time Will Tell Resource Shelf, May 23, 2003 by Gary Price
Former CEO David Seuss purchased the name and search technology at the divine bankruptcy auction. Press releases indicate that remaining technology customers will be supported and the enterprise search product finally released. The webwide search engine may return as well.
divine
Announces Acquisition of Northern Light Press Release: January 16,
2001
Northern Light executives will join divine, and the search engine software,
featuring the classification and taxonomy functions, is specifically mentioned.
Includes a quote from Susan Feldman of IDC:“... By closely integrating search and content management with a collection of high-quality information sources, divine offers enterprises a single point of entry into both their internal information sources and the external ones that are strategically necessary to their survival. Integrated solutions enable an enterprise to develop an integrated information strategy based on the particular needs and processes of their organization. Workflow, categorization, tagging, publishing, search, and information analysis can now become one seamless process that builds a strong foundation for knowledge work...”
Describes the SinglePoint portal service, concentrating on the competitive intelligence and outsourcing business model aspects.
Northern
Light: A New Model for the Enterprise Information Portal IDC; April
2001 by Susan Feldman, cost: $1,500 USD plus tax. (also available for
free by request
through Northern Light).
Describes the nature of enterprise information systems, including enterprise user characteristics, special vocabulary issues, diversity of documents, relevance ranking complexity, information filtering and altering, categorization of related topics, usability and interface features, flexibility of all these features, administration tools and maintenance, security, scalability and integration. Summarizes the state of the EIP market, and describes how Northern Light provides the features described above. Recommends the Northern Light model of ASP/outsourcing as a good alternative to in-house development.
Describes the nature of enterprise information systems, including enterprise user characteristics, special vocabulary issues, diversity of documents, relevance ranking complexity, information filtering and altering, categorization of related topics, usability and interface features, flexibility of all these features, administration tools and maintenance, security, scalability and integration. Summarizes the state of the EIP market, and describes how Northern Light provides the features described above. Recommends the Northern Light model of ASP/outsourcing as a good alternative to in-house development.
Covers the SinglePoint portal and Oracle alliance, with a quote from a happy customer.