Someone recently told me that he didn’t think our region celebrates enough of the achievements of the growing community of tech companies in Pittsburgh. He guessed that it was because many of the companies are still small, and therefore don’t make it onto the radar of the established media in Pittsburgh. [As a side note, if you're looking for more news of local tech companies doing great things, you should subscribe to Pop City's weekly online magazine.] As an example, the person expressed his surprise that more people in Pittsburgh aren’t aware of the accomplishments of Squirrel Hill-based Vivisimo. Good point. Vivisimo is a great example of a growing software company, which demonstrate’s our region’s strength in computer science (and is a CMU-spinout). Vivisimo consistently wins awards for having the best product in the enterprise search industry, and recently the analysts at the Gartner Group positioned Vivisimo in their “Leaders Quadrant.” If you don’t think enterprise search is a big deal, consider that in January, Microsoft paid more than $1 billion for Fast Search & Transfer, one of Vivisimo’s competitors. At Innovation Works, we’re happy to say that we were an early investor in Vivisimo, and we’ve been pleased to watch as the company continues to win customers, win awards and add staff — and if you’re a talented software engineer or a sales person with experience selling enterprise software, be sure to check out Vivisimo’s career page.]
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Matt is right that there is a pretty decent stable of small as well as more-established tech companies in the region. Vivisimo has had its share of coverage among the established Pittsburgh media, but other deserving companies perhaps have not.
Enterprise search is a big deal because it will bring to companies and their employees what already exists on the web: single-search-box access to all or most of their electronic information and knowledge, while respecting security, of course.
As companies modernize along these lines, we will see a big leap in the productivity of information use and, thus, new ideas, goods, and services delivered more efficiently.
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