A new article takes a look at EasyAsk, a company purchased by Progress Software in 2005 that has fallen off the radar in recent years. According to the writer, “I learned a few months ago that EasyAsk is very much alive, and it is growing rapidly. The new owner is a successful software entrepreneur, Craig Bassin, who orchestrated the spin out of EasyAsk from Progress Software. When I met with Bassin, I asked him for a one-sentence description of the ‘new’ EasyAsk. He replied, ‘I’d describe it as follows: You ask EasyAsk questions the exact same way you’d ask it of your VP of sales or CFO.’”

The article continues, “The company is now expanding beyond the e-commerce sector that interested Progress Software, and applying its NLP and semantic technology to enterprise information access opportunities. The firm offers technology that helps people find information faster and easier by enabling them to ask questions in plain English, converting the query into SQL and retrieving an accurate answer.”

According to Bassin, “Our advanced indexing technology supports extremely large, scalable product indexes. Our indexes can scale in multiple dimensions, including number of products or SKUs and the number of attributes used to drive user searches, giving EasyAsk the ability to index extremely large datasets. We support indexes of twice the capacity of typical in-memory, high-speed, searchable indexes, providing a significant performance boost in searches across large datasets. EasyAsk also scales easily with Web load balancers and industry-standard clustering technology.”

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