UTRECHT, The Netherlands, December 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Release 6 is Faster and Easier to Integrate, Customize and Administer for Organizations who Need to Find Qualified Employees or Verify Identity

WCC Services, the leading provider of smart search and match technologies, today announced that version 6 of its flagship product, ELISE, is now available. In today's challenging economic times, companies may receive hundreds of applicants for each job opening making it difficult to find the right person for the job. Security concerns are also at peak levels, requiring many organizations to quickly combine multiple biometric data points in a single search to accurately verify a person's identity. The latest version of ELISE addresses both of these customer needs and was designed to be easier to integrate, administer and customize without sacrificing performance or speed.

Version 6 of ELISE was developed in direct response to our customers needs today, said Peter Went, CEO of WCC Services. ELISE 6 maintains the high-performance standards our customers have come to expect, but is also faster, easier and more cost-efficient so that organizations can quickly integrate it with their current systems and customize its modules to better fit their specific matching requirements.

Faster and More Cost-Effective

ELISE 6 has been redesigned to enhance overall performance and give it a smaller footprint. This improved design reduces hardware costs without sacrificing speed. ELISE 6 can now run natively as either 32-bit or 64-bit, thus making full use of the latest advancements in CPU architecture.

Easier to Integrate

The ELISE matching API has been revised to ease legacy database integration along with the implementation of advanced matching solutions to make set-up faster and easier. In addition, WCC has extended ELISE's functionality with several new features, including:

- Contextual navigation and sorting of the result set using any number of properties - New internal architecture to reduce network traffic, decreasing the average match time and increasing the system capacity.

Easier to Administer and Optimize

ELISE 6 also contains powerful new administration tools, which have been grouped with all the existing tools in a new module called 'ELISE Studio'. ELISE Studio simplifies the integration process to allow system engineers and developers to implement ELISE 6, for example, in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). ELISE Studio gives system administrators better control over events planning, easing implementation and administration. The product will also support business users and analysts by providing better insight into the behavior of the system and allowing parameters to be easily adjusted to 'tune' ELISE for a particular job matching application. New components automatically generate textual and structured affinities, reducing the time required to build and maintain the ELISE matching rules.

About WCC

Founded in 1996, WCC Smart Search Match develops matching software for companies with business-critical matching needs. Its flagship product, ELISE, is a search and matching software that provides meaningful results. In job matching, WCC's technology is used by many of the largest staffing firms and Departments of Labor in the world. In identification, ELISE is used by large health insurance companies, banks, immigration, border security and customs. The company is headquartered in Utrecht, NL, and has offices in Palo Alto, CA and Reston, VA. For more information visit http://www.wcc-group.com

Press contact: David Krathwohl, +1-866-606-1313, dkrathwohl@wcc-group.com