Ex-Autonomy Sales Director joins Exalead

Published 5th June 2009

Leading search vendor appoints Mike Hobson as new Sales Director for the UK and Ireland

Exalead, European leader of search solutions and information access software in the enterprise and on the web, today announced the appointment of Mike Hobson as its new Sales Director for the UK and Ireland. Hobson, formerly the UK Sales Director for Autonomy, is now responsible for managing Exalead’s growing sales team with a special focus on managing and developing new partner relationships.

With over 18 years experience in sales and sales leadership roles, working for leading software companies including Autonomy, Verity, Information Builders and Interleaf, Hobson is looking to rapidly increase Exalead’s reseller base in line with the growing demand the company is experiencing across all market sectors.

“Fuelled by the success of its CloudView solutions, Exalead’s growth has been unrivalled. Channel growth is a vital part of the continued success of Exalead and I am thrilled to be joining the company to help drive the channel strategy forward,” explains Hobson. “Initially, I am looking to support Exalead’s high quality existing partners, but I will also be identifying additional, strategic partners in the UK and Ireland.”

Exalead has succeeded in exporting its search solutions in enterprises worldwide to the likes of the Scottish Government, Commerzbank, Advantage West Midlands and the Salomon Oppenheim bank in Frankfurt, which have all chosen Exalead CloudView to offer their collaborators intelligent access to stored information in their data clouds.

“We are aiming to capitalise on the possibilities offered by CloudView and continue to place the emphasis on improving operational costs and ROI for our customers,” concludes Hobson. “Our aim it to promote more rapid and more economical development cycles with CloudView, while enabling our clients to benefit from architecture, ergonomics and technology inspired by the Web.”

Growth has also been significant in the Internet portal market, with companies such as Yell UK, GEFCO and RightMove benefiting from Exalead’s innovative, reliable and cost solutions. Exalead’s CloudView product line includes CloudView OEM and CloudView Search. It is an easy-to-use platform for creating search-based applications that access structured as well as unstructured data such as instant messages, emails, web pages, and multimedia. Unlike traditional database applications, Exalead’s SBA’s provide information access via a search engine index and complementary Web technologies rather than through direct database queries. This provides an experience closer to that of the consumer Web, an experience that is intuitive, timely, responsive and relevant. This significantly boosts user satisfaction and enables IT to democratise information access.

To discover more about SBA’s, the Butler Group, in association with Exalead, is presenting a webinar on Tuesday 19th May. Click on the link to register for this free session: http://www.butlergroup.com/webinarIntroduction.asp?mcr=EXA190509&scr=EXA190509

About Exalead
Founded in 2000 by search engine pioneers, Exalead® is a global software provider in the enterprise and Web search markets. Exalead's worldwide client base includes leading companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, ViaMichelin, American Greetings and Sanofi Aventis R&D, and more than 100 million unique users a month use Exalead's technology for search.

Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with a platform, Exalead CloudView™ that uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-utilised data in the disparate, heterogeneous enterprise information cloud. The system collects data from virtually any source, in any format, and transforms it into structured, pervasive, contextualized building blocks of business information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the foundation for a new breed of lean, innovative information access applications.

Exalead’s innovative technology has resulted in appreciation from both the market and from analysts, being recognised as a visionary in Gartner’s 2008 Magic Quadrant, winning 'Product of the Year' Award from SearchDataManagement.com as well as being highly commended by analyst firm IDC.

Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company, with offices in Paris, San Francisco, Glasgow, Milan and Darmstadt. Readers who wish to gain more information about Exalead can visit www.Exalead.com or contact +44 (0)1698 404630.

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