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WAIS

ALSO CALLED: Wide Area Information Servers
DEFINITION: WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) is an Internet system in which specialized subject databases are created at multiple server locations, kept track of by a directory of servers at one location, and made accessible for searching by users with WAIS client programs.  … 
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Leveraging eDiscovery in Litigation
sponsored by StoredIQ
WHITE PAPER: eDiscovery has become a major factor in the outcomes of most civil litigation cases. This paper examines the challenges organizations face in storing and retrieving data effectively, as well as new generation technology that can help them do so.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007
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The Top 10 Questions You Should Ask Vendors When Evaluating an In-House eDiscovery Solution.
sponsored by StoredIQ
WHITE PAPER: This document examines the 10 top questions you should consider when evaluating an in-house eDiscovery solution.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Published: 14 Jul 2008
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Essential Solutions for Life Sciences
sponsored by Inxight Software, Inc.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:The life sciences environment is more competitive and complex than it has ever been.
Posted: 14 Jul 2004 | Published: 01 Jul 2004
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Essential Solutions for Financial Services
sponsored by Inxight Software, Inc.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:In this new era of expanding regulation, with tough global competition driving the need to build and maintain customer trust and loyalty, you are under more pressure than ever before to fully leverage the true value of your business information.
Posted: 14 Jul 2004 | Published: 01 Jul 2004
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Inxight SmartDiscovery™: The Complete Solution for Enterprise Information Discovery
sponsored by Inxight Software, Inc.
DATA SHEET:Inxight SmartDiscovery is the most powerful information discovery solution available.
Posted: 14 Jul 2004 | Published: 01 Jul 2004
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Inxight VizServer™: Speeds and Simplifies the Exploration
sponsored by Inxight Software, Inc.
DATA SHEET:With Inxight VizServer, users can visually navigate, explore, and understand large information collections to quickly find the information they need, boosting productivity and speeding product time-to-market.
Posted: 14 Jul 2004 | Published: 01 Jul 2004
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SAVVY™: Online Document Management System
sponsored by Intersoft Group, Inc.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:SAVVY is a browser based document management system that lets you organize, search, view & print any document type that is stored at any physical location, from anywhere, in a secure environment.
Posted: 16 Feb 2004 | Published: 01 Jan 2004
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FastCode®
sponsored by Language and Computing
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:FastCode® analyzes natural clinical language input and then performs a search based on related medical concepts to retrieve the most accurate clinical codes.
Posted: 06 Feb 2004 | Published: 01 Jan 2003
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TeSSI®
sponsored by Language and Computing
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:TeSSI® is a state-of-the-art tool that improves upon the existing search and retrieval tools by extracting the meaning out of medical free text and placing the resulting medical ‘concepts’ in the document index instead of terms.
Posted: 06 Feb 2004 | Published: 01 Jan 2003
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WAIS DEFINITION (continued): …  The user of WAIS is provided with or obtains a list of distributed databases. The user enters a search argument for a selected database and the client then accesses all the servers on which the database is distributed. The results provide a description of each text that meets the search requirements. The user can then retrieve the full text.

WAIS (pronounced "ways") uses its own Internet protocol, an extension of the Z39.50 standard (Information Retrieval Service … 
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