Wordmap, a leading innovator in information access software, today announced the opening of its US operations in Princeton, New Jersey, and the appointment of Brian Justiss as Account Executive for the North American market.
Wordmap’s international expansion is being driven by growing demand from its large, installed US customer base, which now includes AstraZeneca, Harvard Business School, Hewlett Packard, Johnson and Johnson and Schlumberger. More than half of Wordmap’s revenues are now derived from the United States as corporations demand a more sophisticated and precise means of controlling how their information is presented, routed and stored. Wordmap is one of the UK’s most successful exporters of software and has beaten its Silicon Valley competitors to the punch for capturing the growing US market.
Bill Hutchison, CEO of Wordmap, commented, "Anyone who has ever used a search engine in a corporate setting knows the frustration of trying to track down a specific document. Search engines are great at retrieving general information on subjects of wide interest - but poor at locating precisely the right information in a business setting. Our software and services enable users to not only find the information they need with pinpoint accuracy, but also view its relationship with other data, browse the information space, not just search it, and clarify the search terms that people enter. We already have a strong commercial foothold in the United States and our new operations will help us better serve our growing US customer base."
Leading the United States Operations is Brian Justiss, who joins Wordmap from Autonomy. Brian brings a wealth of enterprise software and sales experience to Wordmap from his previous sales and pre-sales roles with companies such as SAP, IBM and CRM specialist, Aspect. He holds a BSc. in Finance from Mississippi State University.
Brian will be focusing primarily on the commercial sector in the pharmaceutical, oil and gas and chemical industries before branching out to the public sector.
Wordmap helps enterprises and governments develop and deploy a standardised scheme for organising large volumes of highly complex information. This is achieved without ripping and replacing systems in the traditional way. Wordmap’s secret lies in its use of metadata, taxonomies and other semantic techniques to describe categories, their terminology and the relationships between them.
Wordmap initially gained a reputation for technical excellence through its taxonomy products, which provide an extensible template for managing, uploading, administering and classifying data online. Building on its deep sector taxonomy expertise, Wordmap has also created a number of business solutions for different vertical markets and industry disciplines, which bring structure, consistency and precision to locating information held within complex data. Wordmap serves customers in both the commercial and public sectors throughout the US, UK and continental Europe across numerous vertical sectors.