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Handouts for Social Media Workshop @ Kassel

2009-10-09T10:26:00.003+02:00

Thanks to all of you who participated in our latest social media workshop held at the Mövenpick Hotel in Kassel. It was a great day for us with a lot of interesting feedback and in-depth discussions. Our entire team (Prof. Wagner, http://cms.uni-kassel.de/unicms/?id=21712 and me) are looking forward to intensify our discussions and drive some joint projects forward.

Please find the seminar handouts for download at Prof. Wagner's academic website.

You can easily stay tuned for all the activities going on at the DMCC by following Prof. Wagner's team on Twitter.

My slides on "Market and media monitoring with Qitera" could also be found at document sharing service scrib.com here. Just give me a ping if you are interested in further information.
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Best regards,
Carlo

Video Summary of Social Search Session from Global Future Camp

2009-10-06T10:56:00.003+02:00

Thanks again to Moritz and his team for organizing the GlobalFutureCamp in Berlin. While now 2 weeks ago the #gfc09 was a great experience leveraging the ideas and inspirations of a bunch of very engaged and motivated people. It was good to see how many people in our digital industry really care about future challenges and take responsibility (and action!). To grab some of the atmosphere and some insights on the discussion results please find photos on flickr, tweets and other action at mixxt.

Our session about the future of search and how socially-empowered technologies will reshape the search industry is summarized in the video below. Please find more infos at our scrib.com page or our website.

Latest Slides on "Social Search" presented at Social Software@Work event at Schloss Mickeln

2009-09-29T15:57:00.004+02:00

For all who joined yesterday's insightful event at Schloss Micklen ("Social Software@Work") I have shared my presentation slides below. If you have any further questions or interest in our current collaboration platform (or our crazy lab projects) please contact me via email or XING.

Best regards, Carlo

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Corporate Communication with Social Media - Executive Seminar

2009-09-22T10:52:00.002+02:00

Together with the Management School of Kassel University and the Endowed Chair for International Direct Marketing, Qitera will be hosting a hands-on seminar for professionals from corporate communications and marketing. The seminar will focus on the strategic impact and operational tactics of social media within the corporate communication processes. As there are only some tickets left, please sign up at our XING-event site here until 28 September 2009. Additional information and the agenda can be found here or get in touch with Qitera founder Carlo Velten.

Artist Mark Lombardi as grandfather of Social Search

2009-09-21T12:16:00.003+02:00

In his session at the Globalfuture barcamp in Berlin, Qitera founder Carlo Velten outlined how artist Mark Lombardi has influenced the architecture model of social search that will be the new paradigm for search within the next 2-8 years. In his session Carlo presented some of Qitera's approaches to semantically-powered search and the core principles of its current enterprise social search platform. The debate than circled around the near-term future of semantic and social services and how user-data could be provided in a secure and seamless way. You can find some slides here. Additional information and some video footage of Carlo's session could be find on the groups Facebook-page.

Qitera founder Carlo Velten moderates session at "GlobalFuture" Barcamp in Berlin

2009-09-16T09:11:00.001+02:00

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will moderate a session at the "GlobalFuture" barcamp in Berlin this weekend (Sept. 18-19.). The session is part of the wider topic "trust & confidence in web and economy" and will circle around how the future search technologies will become social. Feel free to join us for an interesting session about futuristic tech and social trends. Please sign up at http://www.globalfuturecamp.de or get in touch with organizer-in-chief Moritz.

For more information about our "future of search session" please check out the agenda
here(Scrib document).

Qitera founder to moderate EO teambuildung event in Berlin

2009-09-14T15:36:00.005+02:00

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will moderate a panel for the Entrepreneurs' Organization in Berlin on Tuesday 14. Sept. The event will circle around the topic of "teambuilding" and bring together a bunch of successful entrepreneurs for a debate with two of Germany's leading sports and music stars Stefan Kretzschmar and Lucy Diakowska. If you are member of OE please do sign up for the event here.

Qitera founder Carlo Velten to speak about the future of Market Research

2009-09-08T10:38:00.006+02:00

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will give a lecture about new directions and instruments in market research for high-tech start-ups. The lecture is part of a series of academic and hands-on presentations at the Entrepreneurship Summer School organized by CENSET (Center for Scientific Entrepreneurship and Transfer) at University of Cologne and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Finance at Georg-Augusta-University of Göttingen. The venue for this event will be Schloss Wahn nearby Cologne.

For further information or the presentation slides please do contact Carlo Velten.

Summer School

Qitera founder Carlo Velten to speak about Future of Social Search at Heinrich-Heine-University

2009-09-04T15:27:00.004+02:00

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will join a panel and speak about the "social future" of search together with other experts gathering at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf at Sept 28.

Carlo will outline some of the technological underpinnings of social search and give an outlook on future search trends. Additionally Carlo will demo Qitera Enterprise and show how Qitera have implemented Social Search within its Enterprise Collaboration suite.

The interdisciplinary workshop "Social Software @ Work" is organized by the institute for information management at Heinrich-Heine-University and will bring together experts from the business and academic world.

We are looking forward to some fruitful discussions. Please do find more information here http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/social-software/programm.html or get in touch with Isabella Peters

New direct and real-time communication features within Qitera social collaboration platform

2009-09-01T16:34:00.006+02:00

Qitera is starting to release a series of new features for its social collaboration and search platform.

Before a major release will be introduced next week Qitera Enterprise™ now allows all users to communicate in real-time via chat. Beside regular chat functionality between two users, Qitera Enterprise™ enables chatting for
-topics
-groups
-projects

So team communication is clearly focused and helps to share relevants views and information in a very fast and very productive way.

We are happy about feedback.

Qitera CTO Rene Seeber to speak at BITKOM knowledge management workshop

2009-08-28T14:06:00.005+02:00

Qitera founder & CTO Rene Seeber will give a key note speech about „Time and user as semantic levels of information structuring" at executive workshop which is organized by BITKOM on September the 24th. The workshop will focus on the topic "innovative methods and technologies for knowledge management".

Rene Seeber will be speaking about the thematic cooperation of employees and how it can be used in project-oriented work environments, to store information more effectively, filter, search and make them available sustainably.

The workshop targets information professionals and IT-decision makers in the field of knowledge management, search technologies and semantic web. Please do find more information about the workshop below or read our press release(German)below.

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Qitera founder to speak about Social Media Monitoring at executive event

2009-08-27T11:55:00.005+02:00

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will give a key note speech about Social Media Monitoring at executive event organized by the Management School of Kassel University at September 30.

The event introduces the new concepts of social media marketing (e.g. blogs, Twitter) to decision makers from leading German companies. If you are interested to learn more about how to integrate Web 2.0 into your marketing strategy, please do find more information about the event below or read our press release (German) here:

Market Intelligence with Social Media_Executive Seminar_Agenda_2009

Social Search now integrated in Bing

2009-08-05T13:12:00.003+02:00

Microsoft's new search engine Bing is getting more and more attractive in the market. Since its launch Qitera offers its leading social search technology to be integrated into Bing. Thereby Qitera-users can benefit from the collective intelligence of their organisation while searching the web.

Qitera Assist™ integrates your company's individual search results into Bing. Qitera Assist™ automatically shows matching websites or documents that you or your colleagues have saved in Qitera. So you can spot the most relevant results at a glance and check out personal comments or ratings your colleagues have added. Qitera Assist™ lets you benefit from your social network's knowledge and saves you time searching - that is how search gets social.

For more information about our Enterprise Social Search and Collaboration Platform please do contact Carlo Velten.

Qitera supports non-profit organizations with innovative collaboration platform

2009-07-30T13:06:00.004+02:00

Within a special campaign Qitera offers non-profit organizations the opportunity to benefit from its innovative collaboration and search platform. Organizations in the field of education, culture, environment and sports could apply for our community partner program to get up to 100 premium licenses of Qitera Enterprise™ for free.

"Within today's financial and economic crisis, most non-profit organizations suffer from melting donations and less member activity because people have to take care of their jobs and family" says Carlo Velten, one of Qitera's founders and an active member of various non-profit-organizations.

"Our community partner program should enable non-profit organizations to make use of web 2.0 software that frees them from expensive software and infrastructure investments. Most organizations could not afford to pay an professional IT-manager but have to provide tools for effective team work and collaboration. We hope that a lot of organization will get more agile and productive by using our collaboration and search solution.", explains Carlo.

Please do find further information below or contact us for your individual account.

Best regards,
Your Qitera team.

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Qitera among upcoming start-ups in Saas-market

2009-07-27T13:51:00.002+02:00

In a recent article by Jens Tönnesmann, Germany's leading business publication Wirtschaftswoche covers several upcoming start-ups in the Saas-space. The article gives an overview how Qitera and other young software companies are delivering software innovations as "Software as a Service". Please do read the full article here (in German).

"Social-Business-Design" - or how to make enterprise 2.0 projects successful

2009-07-27T10:21:00.005+02:00

Thinking a lot about new concepts and metrics that could help to plan, implement and run Enterprise 2.0 projects successfully, we recently came across the term "Social Business Design". The term originated from US consulting firm dachis group. It would be too easy to judge it as just another hype term. Indeed, we do believe that it is a good way to describe the urgent need to bring together business and IT-thinking.

Our project experiences with leading companies all over Europe have shown that still a majority of business leaders have no real clue how the new web technologies are reshaping their business and the way their organizations communicate within their various ecosystems (customers, employees, partners, shareholders).

So the "Social Business Design" approach could be helpful to think about enterprise 2.0 in a more holistic and strategic way. As the dachis group team phrases it "The social business design framework captures ecosystem (community), hivemind (culture), dynamic signal (collaboration), and metafilter (content)."

From our perspective enterprise 2.0 needs some additional back-up from strategic planning and HR. Only when new enterprise 2.0 planning metrics (e.g. shareability, activity index, search flow) are integrated into the companies goal sheets and HR plans, new initiatives will be successful. At Qitera we love the bottom-up initiatives that drive most initial activities. But to profit from productivity gains and collective intelligence on a broader scale the entire organization has to jump on the train.

Currently we are forming a working group together with some of our clients aiming to distill some real planning and ROI-metrics that could help to plan and measure enterprise 2.0 success. Please contact Carlo Velten if you are interested to join our working group.

IBM CEO Study unveils new collaboration trends to shape future success of global companies

2009-07-20T14:10:00.009+02:00

Global CEO Study companies in the future have to serve well informed and more demanding customers. Market insights are critical to the Enterprise of the Future. Social networking and real-time collaboration tools improve communication and close the distance between people in different locations. Good ideas develop and spread quicker, and problems are solved faster. New social technologies connect everyone to the customer and help to unleash the collective intelligence of the organization. The Enterprise of the Future recognizes the value of information it collects through its many channels and actively mines it for insights.

Qitera's search and collaboration platform aims to help CEOs and CIOs to successfully transform their companies into learning organizations. Qitera makes it easy to collect, share and search market and customer knowledge within global organizations.

In the world's largest study of this kind IBM has interviewed over 1,100 CEOs and senior executives from the private and public sector. The study outlines how CEOs anticipate the future development and market success of their organizations. Please find the full report here.

Qitera sponsors Executive Seminar on „Competitive Intelligence“

2009-07-20T12:15:00.006+02:00

Keeping track with competitors has become a real challenge in a world with exploding information. The web has reshaped the way companies track and evaluate their competitor's initiatives and actions. Thousands of new information sources have to be monitored. Web sites, blogs, social networks, market places and new communication tools.

Euroforum has launched a new executive seminar that empowers decision makers to professionalize their activities in the field of competitive and market intelligence. The seminar offers insights from Europe’s leading CI-practioners and outline strategies to build up successful CI-organizations and processes. Additionally, the seminar is focused on research tactics in the upcoming social web and will showcase interesting tools and services that enable collective intelligence to be used in CI.

Qitera is pleased to sponsor the seminar starting in October 2009. Each participant will be equipped with Qitera’s leading enterprise search – and collaboration service. With Qitera companies are enabled to boost market awareness in the entire organization and to automate competitive monitoring.

Please do find further information about the agenda and the experts below (in German) or do contact Carlo Velten here.

Lehrgang Competitive Intelligence

Filltech GmbH implements Qitera platform as sales enablement solution

2009-07-14T13:45:00.001+02:00

Filltech GmbH is a global leader in in the field of industrial gas and pumping systems. The family-owned company is known for its advanced technologies and solutions to manage CO2 in its various forms. Filltech is specialized in designing, producing and servicing Mixed Gas solutions for every major industry. To identify and address the different market needs and to manage customer-related knowledge effectively across the organisation Filltech has a set up a project for implementing an adequate IT-solution. Filltech has chosen Qitera's social search and collaboration platform to let sales, engineering and marketing people work together and share market knowledge in an intuitive way. With Qitera customer related information is captured from various sources and shared among dedicated teams in one place. Thereby Filltech can work out more client-specific solutions and was able to cut search time to a minimum. Users can now find relevant documentation and customer news by simply searching Qitera or looking up Google. Managing director Michael Peine says "Qitera has brought us into the pole position. We can now interact much faster and more customer-oriented. With Qitera we never miss important updates on customers, markets and competition."

If you have further questions please contact Carlo Velten or read the entire success story hereby (german version).

Qitera Enterprise Referenz Filltech Juli 2009

Competitive Intelligence Professionals - 50% of all jobs created in last 5 years

2009-07-13T12:00:00.003+02:00

Leading IT-magazine Computerwoche releases some interesting facts about the current state of "Competitive Intelligence" (CI) as new discipline in corporations. As editor Christa Manta states, about 50% of all jobs in CI were created within the last 5 years. Companies are more aware of their competitive ecosystem and start to use professional software solutions. Please read the full article here. To learn more about Qitera's offering in CI please read our latest press release here.

Qitera Alerts™ scans market and competitive environment automatically and in real-time

2009-07-10T11:14:00.005+02:00

Qitera Alerts™ is a brand new market and customer intelligence application on our platform that automatically tracks relevant news and developments within your company's market environment. Qitera Alerts™ provides your marketing and sales teams with accurate and current insights regarding your most important clients, projects, market segments and competitors.

Qitera Alerts™ tracks and analyzes thousands of information sources on a global scale, automatically and in real-time including websites, news and social media. Relevant results are directly delivered to your news feed and captured contextually (saved into your topic activity streams). That way important news on customers will never get lost. You and your team are empowered to collaborate around the fresh insights and make better decisions.

With Qitera Alerts™ we enable decision makers in the following domains to focus on their core business:
* Sales Enablement / Customer Intelligence
* Market Intelligence
* Competitive Intelligence
* Innovation Management / Trend Scouting
* Communications
* Investor Relations
* Risk Management
* Brand Monitoring

Benefits:
* Reduced time for monitoring and search activities
* Broader scope of information (global view)
* More revenues through well-informed sales people
* Innovative products through better customer understanding
* Agile team work and collaboration around customer updates
* More market awareness by real-time monitoring and global tracking

Please find more information here or contact Carlo Velten via sales@qitera.com.

Qitera integrates Document Sharing Service Scribd

2009-07-08T15:23:00.004+02:00

With the latest release of Qitera you can now save and share millions of interesting documents from Scribd - one of the leading online document sharing services. Your Qitera plug-in now lets you simple save relevant documents like press releases, product specifications or market reports to your Qitera account. Thereby you can capture relevant knowledge for personal projects or share them effectively with your team.

Fraunhofer Research Labs evaluating Qitera Social Search Platform

2009-07-08T11:28:00.006+02:00

The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO is among Germany's leading institutions for research in the field of information and technology management. Today Fraunhofer IAO will kickstart a new survey regarding the adoption of modern collaboration and knowledge sharing solutions. Objectives of the projects are to identify successful implementation strategies for social software and to evaluate different approaches of web-based sharing and search.

Qitera's social search and collaboration platform will be evaluated within multiple use cases and scenarios. We are very exited about the outcome of the survey and looking forward to valuable feedback for further product innovations. The survey results will be published at selected conferences and events at the end of the year.

Please contact Carlo Velten for more detailed information.

Qitera to showcase Social & Collaboration Platform at Knowlegde Management Executive Seminar

2009-07-03T10:19:00.008+02:00

Qitera will present its social search and collaboration platform Qitera Enterprise™ at knowledge management executive seminar. The event will take place in Frankfurt at 16./17.10.2009 and is organized by well-known author and speaker Dietmar Pfaff. If you are interested to join please do contact the team of infomarketing or mail us at info@qitera.com. Further information about the seminar and the agenda you can find hereby.

Qitera launches new applications for automated market and competitive intelligence

2009-07-02T12:07:00.006+02:00

Today Qitera released two valuable market intelligence applications helping marketing professionals to automate their daily research and monitoring tasks.
With Qitera Alerts™ und Qitera Follow™ users can automatically track market segments, customer activities and competitors in real-time over thousands of information sources. Thereby Qitera helps executives in the field of market and competitive intelligence to keep track with the speed of the internet. Our new applications will help marketing executives to stay ahead without getting overloaded with information noise.

Please read the full press release (in German) here.

Please check out our website for more information or contact Carlo Velten.

New Release of Qitera Enterprise™ - check out the latest features that will boost search efficiency and group productivity within your organization

2009-06-18T15:15:00.008+02:00

Dear Users,
We have just released a new version of Qitera Enterprise™. With our latest release you can now save, share and search all the relevant information within your organization in a much faster and more intuitive way.

What is new to Qitera Enterprise™:

- Public Topics – you can now share topics and content with all your colleagues at once. Just click “Share with all contacts” to distribute important information within the entire organization and get feedback immediately. Additionally, can now discover hot topics at the topics page.

- Activity Updates – you will find real time updates of what your colleagues are doing. Just click on their profile picture on my stuff or the contact page. See user activity, current comments and shared topics at a glance.

- Topics Overview – the topics are now more clearly laid out. You will find boxes now structuring your topics in the following categories: top rated, newest, recently used and favorite topics.

- Search with Suggestion List – To let you find your stuff faster in Qitera, we now provide you with a suggestion list if you start typing in search terms into the search box. Qitera will automatically suggest the names of the people and topics you are looking for.

We hope that you enjoy the improvements of our latest release. Please send us your feedback.

Best regards,
the
Qitera team

The Future of Search is Social - video interview with search expert Mike Grehan

2009-06-17T18:48:00.002+02:00

Accelerate your Competitive Intelligence

2009-06-09T19:31:00.006+02:00

Keeping track with your competitors has become a real challenge in a world with exploding information. The web has reshaped the way we track, evaluate and correspond to our competitor's initiatives and actions. Thousands of new information sources have to be monitored. Web sites, blogs, social networks, market places and new communication tools such as Twitter. Thanks much to Andreas Romppel (author of Competitive Intelligence and head of DCIF) for inviting us to speak at one of his exclusive seminars for CI-executives. We were exited to hear about the latest trends in competitive intelligence and glad to present our search and collaboration platform to a number of experienced CI-professionals. The message from the latest SCIP-conference in Chicago was quite clear - the web has become the main information source for competitive and market intelligence. CI-professionals have deal with a new set of web 2.0 tools and new strategies and cultures when it comes to accelerate CI-activities within the organisation. At Qitera we recently have developed a set of competitive and market intelligence applications that monitor and track the web automatically for relevant updates. We hope that our solution will support the CI-community to keep up with the current information overload and speed of the internet. We are looking forward to a number of great CI-events and are planning a dedicated initiative for CI-professionals within the next weeks. So stay tuned. If you are interested to check out our new web monitoring applications to observe your competition in real-time please do request a free trial here or contact Carlo Velten for additional information.

Qitera works on partner program

2009-05-15T13:47:00.004+02:00

After signing up numerous customers for our web-based search- and collaboration platform it is time for us to think of a structured partner program. So Qitera will launch an official partner program the next weeks. We will empower our different channel partners (resellers, consultancies, system integrators) to market and integrate our unique search & collaboration product ("search-as-a-service"). Qitera is now used by nearly 100 enterprise customers since we launched at CEBIT this year. We are glad about the positive feedback from our exsiting partners and the encouraging reviews from well-known journalists and experts. Please find the latest article from Damian Sicking at heise resale here. Our response to the article offers some more insights on the forthcoming partner program - so stay tuned. Please note that these articles were published in German.

If you are interested in partnering with us please contact Carlo Velten for more information.

Qitera with live integration of Google maps into content stream

2009-05-14T19:13:00.003+02:00

Qitera has freshly released a valuable feature for all users that have to save and share location-based data. You can now save, share and search Google maps within Qitera. Imagine you are planning a sales trip. After capturing the company snapshot, LinkedIn profiles and the latest press release with Qitera you can now add dynamic Google maps including all meta data. So you can navigate your maps live within Qitera and can easily search for it. You can also save and share other maps with your team e.g. maps outlining the regional competitors of your company. Give it a try! We are curious about your feedback.

Qitera to speak at event for Competitive Intelligence

2009-05-11T20:04:00.003+02:00

Tomorrow Qitera will act as sponsor and speaker of an exclusive event targeting competitive intelligence (CI) professionals in Europe. Organised by CI-expert Andreas Romppel the event will outline the latest innovations and strategies from CI-practioneers across the world. The agenda is focused on how CI professionals are planing and executing successful market and competitive intelligence activities to sustain and grow their firm's business in rough economic times. Qitera will present its enterprise intelligence plattform and demo how advanced search and collaboration technologies can empower CI professionals in their daily work. If you are interested to join, please content Andreas Romppel.

Qitera delivers advanced enterprise search and collaboration technolgy as "Search as a Service"

2009-04-23T15:32:00.002+02:00

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Publish at Scribd or explore others: Business & Law enterprise search enterprise 2.0

To read the German press release please click here

New Video Introduction for Qitera Enterprise™ (English Version)

2009-04-22T14:31:00.002+02:00

Dear Users,
please feel free to watch the following video introduction of Qitera Enterprise™ - our enterprise intelligence platform. This video was produced for our english-speaking customers. You will find the german-speaking version here.

Kind regards,
the Qitera team

New Video Introduction for Qitera Enterprise™ (German)

2009-04-16T18:50:00.001+02:00

Dear Users,

please feel free to watch the following video introduction of Qitera Enterprise™ - our enterprise intelligence platform. This video was produced for our german-speaking customers. An english version will follow soon.

Kind regards,
the Qitera team

Qitera Enterprise™ awarded as perfect fit for knowledge management in SME companies

2009-04-14T11:20:00.007+02:00

Initiative Mittelstand is a leading media platform that brings together over 170.000 decision makers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Germany. With the overall objective to inform and support SME's regarding innovative products and technologies, Initiative Mittelstand organizes numerous events and innovation awards. Within this year's Innovationspreis-IT Qitera was awarded among the leading solutions for knowledge management and search in SME companies.

By using Qitera Enterprise™ companies can empower teams to collaborate over the web and share knowledge by just a few clicks. Qitera helps employees to easily gather market-specific information and perform powerful searches within the company's knowledge base. Qitera Enterprise™ is delivered as a web service ("Search-as-a-Service"). So companies can set up Qitera within minutes and realize fundamental cost savings (no hardware or installation costs, support included).

Qitera now offers free test accounts for companies and teams. If you are interested please register here.

CEO Joerg to speak at EntrepreneursDay 2009

2009-04-02T12:04:00.003+02:00

Qitera CEO Joerg Lamprecht will introduce our new SaaS-based search solution at well-known entrepreneurship event EntrepreneursDay2009 this morning. We are excited about feedback from the wider tech community after releasing our new service just 2 days ago. First customer feedback is great and we hope get in touch with more CIOs, marketing executives and knowledge managers who want to support their teams with a simple and ready-to-go search solution.

Qitera Enterprise™ - Search as a Service

2009-04-02T11:09:00.004+02:00

By relasing the enterprise version of our search and sharing platform, Qitera introduces a new concept to traditional enterprise search - SaaS - Search as a Service. Qitera Enterprise™ offers a package of powerful but intuitive search and collaboration functionalities delivered over the web - as a service.

This is unique as enterprise search technologies are traditionally associated with high-volume licensing fees and installation costs. Projects tend to be hardware- and knowledge-intensive. Multiple servers need to be configured and maintained to run the search application and the corresponding back-end technologies (crawler, indexing, databases, rules engine ...).

At Qitera we do believe that it's time for a change. Companies should care about the effectiveness of their internal search processes and the knowledge productivity of their employees – and NOT about back-end technologies. At Qitera we have build a search technology platform that offers substantial benefits in terms of flexibility, scalability and TCO.

Benefits of Search as a Service

* No hardware investments or license fees
* No installation costs
* Get your team ready within 30 minutes
* Automated releases and updates
* Back-up and recovery included
* Scalability from 5-5,000 users
* Mobile access to company knowledge (executives, sales)
* Standardized API to integrate corporate data sources

To get more information and a free trial for Qitera's search as a service please register here.

smarter every day

2009-03-31T09:53:00.005+02:00

Dear Customers,

I am happy to announce our new Enterprise Intelligence Plattform. For the first time you can now get all your relevant Web content, Office Content, Collaboration and Fresh Qitera Intelligence in one place.

Qitera was founded with the mission to build a new generation of search solutions that deliver meaningful results in a more intuitive way. As the amount of data is exploding, finding relevant information to make smart decisions has become a challenge in most organizations. We built a search technology platform that reflects the fundamental paradigm shifts taking place today. Social – Simple – Semantic – SaaS

Social Search – As the web has become the prime source of information, making sense of the users search and sharing activities is a key step to better search results based on the collective wisdom of the organization. That is how search gets social.

Simple Search – As users are getting accustomed to Google, enterprise search products have to become more user-friendly and have to deliver relevant results in a much more intuitive way.

Semantic Search – As the amount of unstructured content is exploding, semantic web technologies provide the chance to mark up and structure information in a more meaningful and graph-based way.

Search as a Service – As traditional enterprise search systems are associated with high-volume licensing fees and installation costs, web-based search services offer significant customer benefits in terms of flexibility, scalability and TCO.

Please visit www.Qitera.com and leave your contact details for a free trial within your organization!

CeBIT, Webciety, Hall 6, March 3 - 8

2009-03-04T21:16:00.004+01:00

With our partner, T-Systems MMS, we share a booth at CeBIT - (still) the worlds largest IT Show. Today was the first public speech about Qitera Enterprise in the Webciety Area in hall 6. The easiness of the platform, the nice positioning of Qitera between Google and Autonomy and the clear need for SaaS and Enterprise 2.0 truly boosted our wildest dreams. Please come and visit us until March 8 in hall 6, T3.02 to get an insight of how to maximise the value within your organization.

Sign up for a Qitera DEMO at Cebit on XING

2009-03-02T17:12:00.008+01:00

Dear users and readers,
to join us for a demo of our enterprise social search platform at Cebit you can easily sign up for this XING-event. So you can export the event details and our contact data directly to your Outlook and mobile calender. https://www.xing.com/events/313971

Looking forward to our discussions.
Regards,
Your Qitera team

Get award-winning chilli cook book at Qitera Cebit-booth

2009-03-02T10:45:00.008+01:00

Dear users and readers!
You are very welcome to join us at our Cebit-product launch. Every day we will raffle one copy of the award-winning chilli cook book http://www.genie-essen.com/. You will not only be amazed by the hot search results our new enterprise search platform comes up with but also by the fantastic chilli recipes. More about the book on http://www.chilli-mind.com/

You will find us at hall 6 (webciety) at booth T.3.02.
See you in Hannover.
Your Qitera Team

Qitera CEO Joerg Lamprecht speaks on "Enterprise Collaboration" panel at Cebit

2009-02-19T13:51:00.003+01:00

Please join us for an interesting panel discussion at Cebit when our CEO Joerg give insights and perspectives on Qitera´s strategy for "Enterprise Collaboration". Among other high-profile speakers from US and Europe Joerg will outline Qitera´s approach to realtime collaboration and social search in the enterprise. The session will start Tuesday 04.03.2009, 15:00-15:50 CET. Check it out at the Cebit Webciety Forum (Hall 6) or contact us in advance.

We also happy to welcome you at our booth (Hall 6, booth T3.02) and demo our solution in cooperation with our friends of T-Systems Multimedia Solutions.

Press Release for Qitera Enterprise™ Product Launch at Cebit (german version)

2009-02-19T13:47:00.001+01:00

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Qitera Enterprise™ to launch at CeBIT 2009 with T-Systems MMS

2009-02-17T11:20:00.008+01:00

Qitera Enterprise™, our enterprise social search platform for enterprises and organizations will be introduced at CeBIT 2009. Together with our partner T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH we will present Qitera Enterprise™ at the world's largest and most renowned trade fair for IT and telecommunications in Hannover from March 3-8, 2009.

We are very happy to announce our partnership with T-Systems MMS who is among Europe’s leading IT-service firms and specialized in large portal, enterprise 2.0 and enterprise search implementations. T-Systems MMS will be one of our major integrators and help customers to plan, build and run Qitera´s technology within their corporate IT-environments.

To check out our new products please visit us at the Webciety in Hall 6, booth T3.02. We are looking forward to discuss the future of search with you and Marcel Hofmann, Chief Search Officer at T-Systems MMS.

Social Search in Google

2009-01-27T11:59:00.009+01:00

One of the most annoying things in "Search" is the neverending loop of searching things we already found previously. We search again and again and again for similar things - and the worst: our friends and coworkers most probably also search for similar things.

In capturing whole pages from the web, Qitera already did the first important step: Building your personal search index. No Tags anymore. No lost content no vanished articles. All stored for eternity in your personal index. Open it to friends or co-workers and benefit from what they know and ready is your social search index.

With Qitera Assist we do another important step: Integrating your personal Index into Google, MSN and Yahoo!. You now FIRST get pages from YOUR pages, things you already found and THAN from the web.

How does it work?
The Qitera plug-in captures a query in Google or Yahoo! and sends the search term to Qitera. We than take your search results and display them right before the "official" Google results.

More Info?
http://www.qitera.com/help/assist

Change comes to your office - Qitera to launch realtime collaboration for the enterprise

2009-01-21T17:29:00.008+01:00

After months of hard work and intensive customer feedback we are nearly ready to launch the enterprise version of Qitera. With our enterprise productivity platform we will revolutionize your working environment. By combining the novel workflow approach of “activity streams” (aka news feed) with powerful sharing and enterprise search functionalities, Qitera Enterprise will help you to speed up team work and project management in your organization. With Qitera Enterprise you can reduce email-overload and track projects intelligently. Supporting office documents and web content alike Qitera bridges the gap between both worlds to provide an easy-to-use collaboration platform that really supports group knowledge.

Qitera Enterprise works for multiple types of projects e.g. new web site, product relaunch, partner event, competition survey or marketing plan. Qitera Enterprise ensures that everybody in a team can easily access the latest information and comments to make the right decisions. Qitera is suited for the following domains:
• Team work and collaboration
• Sales support and pre-sales
• Market intelligence
• Knowledge management and media sharing
• Semantic and social enterprise search

Qitera Enterprise is delivered as software-as-a-Service (SaaS). No extra server or installation costs. No additional upgrade or support fees and built-in enterprise search for a rapid ROI.

We plan to launch Qitera Enterprise at Cebit in March. Please feel free to contact us and get further information and support. info@qitera.com

Qitera – simplify your student life

2009-01-19T14:14:00.006+01:00

Getting tired of all your home work? Too much research to do for your next assignment? Having trouble to share relevant documents and content with your fellow students?
Qitera will help you to simplify your student life. With Qitera you can save web pages and articles with just one click. You can collaborate with your peers around projects and group assignments. And Qitera´s search functionality empowers you to search all your content easily by keyword. But you can also use Qitera to share cool stuff with your friends or plan a joint skiing vacation.

Use cases school and university:
• Do research for assignments and projects
• Share documents and web content with friends
• Collaborate with fellow students around group projects
• Plan vacations or get recommendations for cool products

Sounds good? So just try out and sign up for free.

If you are responsible for your schools IT department please do not hesitate to contact us. Qitera offers special collaboration packages for academic organizations. info@qitera.com

Duplicates and Multiples

2009-01-13T13:00:00.006+01:00

Duplicates:

When creating your personal search index and saving pages it can happen that you save a page twice. So we received a lot of feedback and that feature. It's now fixed in the current release, just watch out for that hint beneath your findings:

But: That hint also appears when your friends previously saved the same pages and invited you. So for the system it's the same if it is "your" page or you simply have access rights to it and it "belongs" to one of your friends.

Multiple identities:

Another extremely nice feature is the handling of multiple email accounts in your "Settings" in the "E-mail Settings" section. You now have the option to register as many addresses as you like. Work, private, anonymous...

Of cause you can log-in to Qitera with any of those emails .... your password stays the same. The content also. Try it out and send your neighbor a smile if you like it! :-)

All the best wishes for Christmas

2008-12-19T16:19:00.002+01:00

Dear Friends,

We would like to thank all of you for your feedback and great ideas. Thanks to your engagement Qitera had a wonderful start and we are proud to get so much supportive feedback. We will start into the new season with a lot of work on our agenda to make Qitera the most valuable sharing service on the web.

But Christmas is waiting around the corner. It is the time to share memories, gifts and hopes with the people we care about. We wish all of you a peaceful Christmas time and all the best for the new year.

Sincerely
Your Qitera team

P.S. Try out to share your Christmas wishes via Qitera. Just upload customized pictures, e-cards or videos as your Christmas message and share it with friends and family.

Go Shopping with Qitera

2008-12-15T17:19:00.004+01:00

Today we would like to give you a quick introduction how to best use Qitera for shopping. Most online shops do have wish lists and features to save stuff – but in every case you have to register and log in with a new pass word. Qitera now lets you save and compare products across online shops just by saving your favorite products with the Qitera-browser button. After saving a specific product or offering you will get back to it at your “My Stuff” page. By sharing it securely with friends and family you will get valuable advice and decision support from the people that matter most to you. Just create a topic (e.g. named “my new watch”) and start collecting and sharing all the valuable stuff you come across while searching the web for the best offers.

Additionally, Qitera partners with a broad number of online shops to make online shopping easy and fun. Our partner online shops provide a “Keep This” button right beside their products. So you can save the product and its related information (picture, description, link and price) into Qitera with just one click on the shop page.

Here are some of our partner online shops:

A little widget will display all the relevant information and confirm positive feedback after the product is saved. Qitera helps you to manage your Christmas online shopping smoothly and secure. You can now discuss with selected friends or create wish lists for your own. Try it out.

Delicious and browser bookmark

2008-12-12T14:38:00.006+01:00

One of the "most wanted" features in the last days was the import of browser or delicious bookmarks. I agree. Very useful.

So we put it online today and it works fairly simple and straight forward. In the footer under the Help section you'll find a new entry called "Import"

Just click on that and decide to first import your browser bookmarks or the ones from delicious. The software will provide a short guidance - depending on what browser you have - to walk you through the maximum 3 steps.

One thing on Tags vs. Topics: A Tag is a short description which helps you to memorize the URL, something like "vacation" or "Cool App". A Topic in Qitera is something that contains websites, comments or notes, images or vids ... it grows over time and everybody with whom it is shared can add his websites or comments. A Topic is more a vertical search engine with fulltext index and searchable for ALL words in ALL pages attached to it. A website can be in various topics.

The Qitera importer assists you to create Topics where you had Tags before.

Have fun now with your old stuff - in new looks!

Video Sharing with Qitera

2008-12-09T14:22:00.008+01:00

Qitera lets you easily share different forms of web content. Video is a main part. With the Qitera-plugin you can save and share videos from all major video platforms with just one click. If you simply save the video you will find it in your personal content feed called "My Stuff". If you add the video to one of your topics you will also get back to it on the specific topic-page.

Additionally, you can contribute and share videos via the Qitera website by using the "Add New Item"-function and choose "add website/video". Just copy and paste the URL of the video into the dialog box and press "save". You can then assign a topic to share the video with selected friends and colleagues.

You can use the comment features and icons to securely communicate with friends.

Save dynamic pages with one click

2008-12-05T15:13:00.004+01:00

To save entire pages and please install the Qitera plug-in first:

After clicking the installation button your browser will automatically start the download and may ask your for your admission. Qitera runs smoothly on all major browsers as:

* Firefox
* Internet Explorer IE 7
* Safari
* Google Chrome

After a successful installation the green Qitera-button will appear in your browser bar.

An here we go...just press the Qitera-button to save entire web pages. No matter if it´s a flight itinerary, a Wikipedia article or a favorite product from an online shop. Qitera will fully capture the page for you including text, pictures and the link. So you can easily keyword-search all your saved content and build up your own search index that will deliver personalized and highly relevant results. The best thing about using Qitera - your results are 100% spam-free!

Qitera takes great care about your digital privacy. We only save the pages you capture with the plug-in. No other data is tracked.

Qitera is now live!

2008-12-05T11:32:00.001+01:00

Dear friends of Qitera,

After months of development and testing the new version of Qitera is now live. We would like to thank all of you for your valuable feedback and support. We hope that the new version will help you to simplify your online life.

With Qitera you can now

save important websites with just one click (capture entire websites 1:1, e.g. travel itineraries, favorite products from online shops or cool videos)
share securely with friends (group your content by topic to share and engage with friends)
discover relevant content and products around your mutual interests (get valuable recommendations without searching)

To have a closer look at all the new features please go on the feature tour. If you are dreaming of a hassle-free Christmas just use Qitera to manage your online Christmas shopping.

Are you crazy about the new version? Please log-in and do not forget to invite friends and colleagues.

To surf the web with the latest plug-ins from Qitera please check out the installation page.

All the best,
Your
Qitera-team