Yippy, Inc. announced that IBM veteran Michael Pointer has joined Yippy's senior management team. Mr. Pointer succeeds the retiring Errol Walsh who previously held the same role at Yippy. Mr. Walsh will continue to serve Yippy as a member of its board of directors. Mr. Pointer brings to Yippy a wealth of experience in sales, support and deployment of Watson Explorer technology. He was an early employee of Vivisimo, Inc., which developed the Watson Explorer core technology. At Vivisimo, Mr. Pointer served as Director of Customer Support, leading Vivisimo's technical sales, implementation and technical support teams. Mr. Pointer also founded the Vivisimo training program.
Yippy, Inc. is a provider of enterprise search and insight technologies for various types of consumers of data. The Companyâs enterprise search technology delivers business solutions. It also offers Yippy Search Appliance (YSA), Google Search Appliance (GSA) replacement and Yippy Search Cloud (YSC). The Companyâs YSA and YSC offers search technology, content connectors, security and user interface. The Companyâs navigation filters allow users to refine search attributes, such as date, price, author, location and content type. Its YSA offers organizations the flexibility to control the information that is included in the index and displayed in search results, including word proximity, synonyms, source, link analysis, and freshness. It also includes access control integration, including ActiveDirectory, single sign-on (SSO), lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) and access control lists (ACLs) that provides early binding document and field level security.
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