NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - Alpharetta, GA, United States, 2007/10/17 - Handshake Software, Inc. announces the commercial release of SPS-Bridge, a protocol handler for SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Search that allows organizations to provide search access to data and content repositories across the enterprise in MOSS 2007.

Handshake Software, the global leader in Microsoft Office 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 integration and innovation announces the commercial release of SPS-Bridge for SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Search. SPS-Bridge is a protocol handler for SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Search that allows organizations to provide search access to data and content repositories across the enterprise in MOSS 2007.

SPS-Bridge leverages Handshake Software’s unique integration and understanding of data and the relationships between the data systems to connect to and securely transfer content in document management and other enterprise systems to SharePoint for indexing.

“Our firm is using Handshake Software’s Relationship Toolkit to manage client extranet processes.” stated Brian Donato, CIO of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP. “Leveraging the existing integration to provide search access to our document management system [OpenText eDocs/Hummingbird DM] inside of our SharePoint intranet made sense as the next logical step.”

SPS-Bridge is a component of Handshake Software’s Agility Suite. The Handshake Relationship Toolkit combined with SPS-Bridge ensures that managed files are not only indexed for search but that the search result sets returned to users respect the security of the underlying systems.

“We continue to increase the scope of what is indexed every day without any visible degradation in performance. The search time over the index is about 1/3 of a second, which is exponentially faster than any other search solutions we’ve explored” added Nate Jedinak, Manager, Applications Management at Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP. “Adoption of the search features in SharePoint is accelerating. Our monitoring of the system has revealed that users tend to perform their searches only once to find what they are seeking.” When performing a search with SPS-Bridge, the firm also has the capability to expose relevant Web Parts along with the search results set. This added intelligence provides their attorneys with relevant information without further effort.

“Our position is that the focus when retrieving information from any data source should be on Finding as opposed to Searching” added Doug Horton, President and CEO of Handshake Software Inc. “When we implement Enterprise Searching in our customers’ sites we couple the SharePoint search results with relevant, integrated data. This adds value and context, reduces the effort, and speeds retrieval of relevant information.”

About Handshake Software, Inc.

Handshake Software, Inc. (handshakesoftware.com) is the leading provider of integration and innovation products for Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint Server. The company's solutions help businesses leverage existing information and increase the return on investment from line of business applications for all types of business requirements through Microsoft’s suite of products.

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