Search Til You Drop: Google Launches Hosted Commerce Search For Retailers

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.2] Searching retail sites can be frustrating at times. While many retailers try to present product search in a visually appealing way, search can often be slow or difficult to refine. Tonight, Google is making a huge play in retail space with the launch of Commerce Search, a hosted enterprise search product to power online retail stores and e-commerce websites. Google offers a general hosted search product that is used by organizations that want to add customized Google search functionality to their websites. Google is now entering the vertical space, by the first tailor-made enterprise product, with retail optimized space. There are four key components to thew new search offering for retailers:

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Indicee Raises $6 Million For Cloud-Based Business Intelligence Reporting Tool

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.2] Business intelligence is a service that is crucial to both big and small companies. Indicee is a startup that that helps users easily combine data from their business applications and generate reports using Indicee's cloud-based service. It essentially wants to bring bring reporting and analysis to the “masses” with a cost-effective solution to mashup business data. Indicee also just completed a $6 million Series A round from Granite Ventures and Yaletown Ventures. Indicee's technology taps into data from business applications and content from productivity software such as Excel, and others and automatically builds reports and analysis for this data in the cloud. Users can ask business questions in plain English, which Indicee then responds with reports and visualizations that are produced from on-demand from data uploaded to the cloud.

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ThoughtWorks Studios Rolls Out New Version Of Mingle, Integrates With Google Wave

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.1] ThoughtWorks Studios, a software development startup, is launching a new version of its project management tool, Mingle, and is rolling out integration with Google Wave. Mingle has been upgraded to feature a communications platform within the application, called “Murmurs.” A mix of an IM and Twitter-like microblogging format, Murmurs allows anyone involved in a software project to have online conversations that are associated with a specific Mingle project.

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Twitter Comes To The ADC Market

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Crescendo Networks, a maker of Application Delivery Controller (ADC) products built to improve server efficiency, will announce tomorrow the impending launch of their new add-on management appliance, the AppBeat SC Service Controller. The AppBeat SC Service Controller is designed to monitor multiple AppBeat application delivery controllers. This product will give users the option to be alerted via Twitter, as well as email or SNMP, if any degradation to their network is detected.

As web-based properties grow and traffic increases, the need for more servers becomes apparent, and with that, server efficiency becomes a priority. Crescendo Networks’ AppBeat DC is a plug-and-play piece of hardware which offloads many CPU intensive tasks which in turn adds more processing cycles available for multiple applications. By doing this, servers are able to handle more users without degrading their experience and the servers needed are reduced.

The AppBeat SC Service Controller monitors these AppBeat DC modules to make sure that they are running as efficiently as possible. This add-on is able to collect and store information from these modules for 18 months which can be used to create trending reports as well as deliver real-time alerts (via Twitter, email, and SNMP) on application delivery and networking. Admins are also available to leverage Crescendo’s support team to monitor the twitter stream to improve assistance.

AppBeat SC Service Controller comes with predefined alerts, but users are able to customize them as they see fit. Users are able to flag certain traffic volumes which exceed a pre-set threshold, thus avoiding premium charges from ISP’s. In addition, the Service Controller can alert the admin of a degradation in alert times to a particular server.

Crescendo was founded in 2002 and began shipping their products in 2006.

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