Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research Team Builds Ground-Breaking Content Management Solution with Mark Logic
Leading Source of Health Information Chooses MarkLogic Server to Enhance Content Integration
SAN MATEO, Calif - June 6, 2006 - Mark Logic® Corporation, provider of the industry's leading XML content server, today announced that the Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research division has selected MarkLogic Server to build its next-generation content management platform. The solution will initially be used by Ovid in support of new, market-leading initiatives for its search and discovery platform, followed by other Wolters Kluwer Health business units leveraging the rich features of the MarkLogic Server solution. The Medical Research division of Wolters Kluwer Health includes Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins medical journals.
The Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research team required a flexible, scalable solution that would enable them to fully leverage their investment in XML content and realize significant efficiency gains with its content preparation process. MarkLogic Server was selected for its enterprise-class capabilities to integrate content from different sources and in varied formats, repurpose content into multiple products, and dynamically deliver content that is optimized for multiple output formats, media, and devices. The Mark Logic functionality enables Wolters Kluwer Health to accelerate the creation of precisely targeted medical information products in order to tap new market segments for revenue growth, lower overall production costs, and improve the flexibility and responsiveness to changing business needs.
"Mark Logic provides significant utility in dealing with XML data, and we're particularly interested in its capability around content transformation," said Joe Tetzlaff, chief technology officer for the Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research division.
MarkLogic Server helps providers of information products by enabling them to integrate content from different sources, repurpose content for multiple uses, deliver content through multiple channels, and more effectively mine content to find previously undiscovered information. With the industry's most powerful implementation of the W3C-standard XQuery language, MarkLogic Server enables customers to build powerful applications that load, query, manipulate, and render content. Designed for enterprise-class high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond response times against multi-terabyte contentbases. Publishers such as Wolters Kluwer Health are turning to MarkLogic Server to help implement new competitive strategies on a single infrastructure and dramatically reduce time to market and costs for new product offerings.
"Information providers are discovering that search engines are not enough to meet the needs of today's demanding information consumers," said Max Schireson, vice president of customer solutions for Mark Logic Corporation. "MarkLogic Server is a robust platform that enables publishers to dig deep inside their content and create customized information products that can be delivered on demand. We are pleased to have been selected by Wolters Kluwer Health to help them continue their long tradition as a vital information resource for the healthcare and medical research communities."
About Wolters Kluwer Health
Wolters Kluwer Health (Conshohocken, Pa.) is a leading provider of information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons; electronic information providers, such as Ovid Technologies, Medi-Span and ProVation Medical; and pharmaceutical information providers Adis International, and Source® for pharmaceutical information. Wolters Kluwer Health is a division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading multinational publisher and information services company with annual revenues (2005) of EUR 3.4 billion, approximately 18,400 employees worldwide and operations across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
About Mark Logic Corporation
Mark Logic Corporation is the provider of the industry's leading XML content server. Mark Logic works with providers of information products to accelerate new product creation, deliver products through multiple channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content into multiple products, build custom publishing systems, and mine content to find previously undiscovered information. MarkLogic Server does this by enabling companies to load, query, manipulate, and render XML content using the W3C-standard XQuery language. Designed for high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond response times against multi-terabyte contentbases. Mark Logic is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers. For more information, please visit www.marklogic.com.
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Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research
Connie Hughes
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