Transcript Presentation to Gale - Deep Web Technologies

Deep Web Technologies
Presentation to Gale for PowerSearchPlus
Abe Lederman, President and Founder
Maxine Swisa, Vice President of Engineering
May 18, 2009
Customers &
Company Background
Strong Background & History
Proven Track of Client Success
• Deep Web Technologies boasts:
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– 10 years in federated search
– Over $3M spent in R&D budget
– Founder has 20 years experience
in IR and co-founded Verity
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Powerful relevance ranking
Comprehensive connector options
Aggregated, de-duped results
Powerful UI options
Web Services based architecture
Near real-time connector
monitoring & maintenance
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Fortune 500, including Boeing & Intel
U.S. Federal Agencies, including DOD,
DOE & NAL
Leading publishers & content
aggregators
Leading Internet portals
Confidential & Trade Secret
INTERNAL USE ONLY
Proposed New
PowerSearchPlus
Deep Web Technologies proposes to:
–Duplicate most functionality of current PowerSearchPlus
application
–Integrate with current PowerSearchPlus Admin interface,
including accessing library credentials
–Replace existing Groxis-based functionality that allows Gale
customers to freely search Gale sources
–Support Proxy Server to eliminate multiple logins
–Provide relevance ranking of search results
–Remember state of More Results tab
–Provide & test connectors to all sources listed in Vendor List
–Drop visualization capability (at least from first release)
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INTERNAL USE ONLY
Proposed Timeline
1-Jun
1-Jul
1-Aug
1-Sep
1-Oct
1-Dec
Contract Signed
Design
Develop
Alpha Testing & Review
Beta 1 Release
Beta 2 Release
Beta 3 Release
Deploy
Ongoing Support 
Proposed
Launch
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INTERNAL USE ONLY