LONDON, November 28 /PRNewswire/ --

In challenging economic times, enterprise search applications can help employees become more productive. Recent articles and blogs are making this point, such as eWeek's, 5 Technology Businesses Poised to Boom in the Financial Crisis,(1) and analyst Brian Babineau's Got Search?(2) blog for the Enterprise Strategy Group.

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But enterprise IT groups need knowledge and confidence to plan a winning strategy. Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), an enterprise search leader, will help IT make the case with quick implementation, high user satisfaction and a measurable difference in organizational performance.

Detailing case studies from various industries, Vivisimo will review these strategies in a seminar at Information Management Solutions 2008, December 2-4, Olympia Grand Hall, London.

The seminar by Vivisimo's Stacy Monarko is Jump-Starting Collaboration Through Social Search, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 11:45 - 12:15 in Theatre A. She also will be at Vivisimo's stand, No. 791, discussing how Vivisimo helps organizations extract more business value from their data.

The Vivisimo white paper, Jump-Starting Collaboration with Social Search, is available, with free registration, at (http://vivisimo.com/landing/download-collaboration).

IT managers want to improve their enterprise search. A survey by AIIM (www.aiim.org), Findability: The Art and Science of Making Content Easy to Find, showed that about half believe better access to information is critical yet they had no strategy to improve retrieval.

(1) October 6, 2008 eWeek story: http://tinyurl.com/4gkr9p

(2) Enterprise Search Strategy blog, Got Search?: http://esgblogs.typepad.com/brians_blog/2008/11/got-search.html

About Vivisimo, Inc.

Vivisimo provides enterprises with innovative search solutions that allow end-users to find and take advantage of all appropriate and available information, regardless of source, location or type. Vivisimo's innovative technology, including social search tools that enable collaboration throughout the enterprise, is delivered with a focus on end-user satisfaction and on application control through easy-to-use interfaces, flexible security management and a modern architecture that enables quick deployment. Vivisimo products are available for standalone search applications or as OEM versions embedded as critical search technology within partner applications and solutions. Vivisimo serves its global clients from headquarters in Pittsburgh, USA, and through partners around the world. Visit Vivisimo.com and our [Search Done Right](TM) blog.

Geof Becker, of Vivisimo, +1-412-422-2499, ext. 166, becker@Vivisimo.com ; NOTE TO EDITORS: Vivisimo client OnMedica, www.onmedica.com/, is scheduled to be at the IMS 2008 seminar on Dec. 2 - details below. OnMedica is implementing Vivisimo Social Search to improve delivery of medical information: vivisimo.com/press/2008/onmedica-20081125. / Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080626/NEW046LOGO