KoreaWISEnut Takes Search Engine to International Markets with Basis Technology’s Leading Unicode Library
Cambridge, MA, May 14, 2003 — Basis Technology today announced that KoreaWISEnut, Korea’s leading search engine, has selected the Rosette Core Library for Unicode® to enable multilingual support in KoreaWISEnut’s Web and enterprise search products. KoreaWISEnut is globalizing its technology for expansion into international markets.
“Adding Unicode support to our source code is a critical step in our plans to expand into new markets outside of Korea,” said Hosuk Choo, KoreaWISEnut’s CEO. “We chose the Rosette Core Library for Unicode because of its reputation as the leading cross-platform Unicode library and because of the outstanding product support offered by Basis Technology. Now we can easily add support for new languages while maintaining a single code base, saving us time and money when entering new countries.”
Unicode is an international standard for representing all of the world’s languages under a single encoding system. Rosette Core Library for Unicode converts over 150 legacy encodings to Unicode and runs on all the major platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, Linux, and others.
“We’re pleased that leading companies in Asia are accelerating their adoption of Unicode,” said Carl Hoffman, Basis Technology’s CEO. “We are excited to help Asian companies become successful in international markets. Our mission is to enable companies to quickly prepare their technology for sale overseas, and our relationship with KoreaWISEnut further demonstrates how we are achieving that goal.”
About KoreaWISEnut
KoreaWISEnut is a leading Korean search engine company and one of the fastest growing IT companies in Korea. Founded in May 2000 as a joint venture with several leading Korean companies and WISENut, Inc., KoreaWISEnut is now an independent company based entirely in Korea. Its search technology provides a Web search ASP for major Korean portal sites, an enterprise search solution, ’Search Formula-1,’ and a CI solution, ’WISE CIMS,’ for large-sized businesses and governmental organizations. KoreaWISEnut, founded in 2000, has worked with clients including Samsung Electronics, LG E&C, SK communications, Wooribank, and other major organizations in Korea. Its Search Fomula-1 has won a Presidential prize at the 2002 Korea new software competition.
About Basis Technology
Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from multilingual text. The company’s Rosette® Platform is a suite of high-performance, highly reliable, interoperable software components designed for applications that analyze and process all the world’s languages.
Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and entity extraction. Clients include America Online, Convera, Endeca, Google, Hewlett-Packard, InQuira, Inktomi, L.L Bean, Northrop Grumman, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Verity and Yahoo!.
Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 800-697-2062.