Industry Leaders Gather for Endeca’s 2009 Government Summit
Endeca and Partners Host Top Agency Officials to Discuss Transforming Government Through Information Discovery
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, today announced that more than 150 government agency officials and partners gathered for the 2009 Government Summit held on November 5th in Reston, Virginia. Under the theme, “Transforming Government Through Discovery,” the event focused on the impact of unlocking valuable information within governmental organizations.
This year’s event was co-hosted by a number of partners who, together with Endeca, offer a complete solution for unifying structured and unstructured data across disparate information repositories. “We were thrilled to participate in this thought-provoking event because we see great demand for solutions that provide greater information visibility for improved daily decision-making in government,” said John Maloney, director of NetOwl Sales and Marketing, SRA International, Inc. “Endeca and its technology partners can enable quick and easy integration for the unrestricted exploration of content, and provide joint customers with faster deployments, lower costs, and a richer user experience.”
Tom Temin, former editor-in-chief of Washington Technology and Government Computer News, and Bob Gourley, a career national security professional named by InfoWorld as one of the “Top 25 most influential CTOs in the Globe,” discussed changes taking place in both the government and technology sectors, and how those changes will affect government IT professionals in the years ahead. These thought leaders were joined by executives from Lawrence Livermore National Library, Canadian Department of National Defence, and Congressional Research Service, all of whom shared views on how they have unlocked valuable information within their organizations for improved daily decision-making.
“Now more than ever, civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies are challenged in their ability to manage and exploit structured and unstructured information,” said Bob Gourley, former CIO of the Defense Intelligence Agency and current CTO, Crucial Point, LLC. “These organizations need a new approach that complements current IT investments, unifies information silos, and encourages exploration to foster discovery in daily decisions. Endeca’s Government Summit provided insights and proof points from some of the most advanced strategists, providers, and practitioners of information management today.”
The 2009 Government Summit’s Partner Pavilion featured a number of valued sponsors. Leveraging the extensibility of the McKinley Platform and the Endeca Extend Partner Program, these complementary technology and solution providers allow government agencies to implement and achieve full value from Endeca’s Information Access Platform. The 2009 Government Summit sponsors included:
To learn more about the 2009 Government Summit and to view presentations from the event, click here.
About Endeca
Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search applications built on Endeca’s technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved information visibility, customers make better choices, and employees better decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
