X1 Technologies

X1 Technologies, Inc.
Private (venture-backed)
Industry Enterprise Search
Founded 2003
Headquarters Pasadena, California
Key people
 John Patzakis, CEO
Website www.x1.com

X1 Technologies, Inc., now X1, is a privately held software company, based in Pasadena, California, United States, that develops and markets products for enterprise search. It is an operating company of Idealab, and is backed by U.S. Venture Partners.

History

X1 Technologies was founded in 2003 to sell products that allow business users to access the information that resides on one computer or across the corporate enterprise. The products feature a "find-as-you-type" interface that narrows the results list as each letter of the search term is typed or an entry is made in the metadata field, without requiring the user to press the search button again. Result details are listed in the left pane of the interface, and a preview of the file or email is displayed in the right pane. X1 searches almost 500 file-types, including email, Outlook and enterprise applications such as Oracle and Symantec Enterprise Vault even if the user does not have the associated application installed on their PC.

In late 2005, X1 entered the enterprise search market with its Enterprise Edition (now X1 Rapid Discovery), which consists of a network-based indexing server that delivers results to the Desktop Edition (now X1 Search 8) or via a browser client interface.

X1 was listed as one of KMWorld's "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" for four years,[1] and as one of Gartner's "Cool Vendors in the High Performance Workplace" in 2006.[2] It also won a PC Magazine's Award for Technical Excellence in 2004,[3] and was reviewed by EContent Magazine.[4]

X1 has partnered with and powered search initiatives for IBM, Yahoo! and EarthLink. In 2011, X1 Discovery, Inc. was formed to expand the X1 product line to include eDiscovery and social media products. In 2012, the full suite of X1 products was combined under X1. The official company name now is simply X1.

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References

  1. ↑ KM World's 100 Companies that Matter 2009 X1
  2. ↑ Gartner Research, ID G00138492 Gartner.
  3. ↑ Technical Excellence Award PC Magazine.
  4. ↑ EContent Magazine EContent Magazine.

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