EVN is a value added reseller for MarkLogic’s line of products, most notably the MarkLogic Server.  MarkLogic Server is a purpose-built XML database for managing, leveraging and delivering unstructured information. It is designed and optimized to address the common characteristics of unstructured information in terms of handling information that may be human-generated, textual, irregular, hierarchical, de-normalized, time-varying, and/or big.  It supports a content enrichment sequence and every more advanced operation as content is enriched: structured and layered with metadata.

MarkLogic Server was developed based on a modern architecture to meet today's information management requirements. Organizations need to be able to leverage vast amounts unstructured information in a variety of ways that may be unknown or unanticipated upfront. Users need access to new and updated information in real-time for better decision making and speed of though analysis. Organizations need technologies that efficiently support internet-scale using commodity hardware. MarkLogic Server accelerates the creation of information-based products

  • Reduced "time to create custom information products" by over 90%
  • Integration of multiple systems with super-fast data retrieval
  • Time-to-market for new products cut by over 65%
  • Multi-channel delivery to print, online, mobile, Kindle through one unified back-end process/repository

Media customers include Cengage, Congressional Quarterly, Harvard Business School Publishing, McGraw-Hill, MIT Press, Pearson, Reed Elsevier, Springer, Thomson Reuters, University of Virginia Press, University of Toronto, Wiley, Wolters Kluwer, etc.

Projects MLS typically adds value to include:

  • Creating multi-channel delivery products – allowing customer to create and store content ‘one time’ and deliver it many times to any number of devices such as mobile (Android, iPhone, Kindle, etc.), web, print, among others
  • Includes MLS direct feeding of HTML5 readers
  • Aggregating content from many sources for a unified user experience – information resides in many different silos and MarkLogic’s ability to aggregate that information into a single searchable platform
  • Rich search and discovery applications (internal and external) – frequently organizations are faced with the problem that they don’t know what content assets they have, which ones are valuable etc.  MarkLogic provides rich interactive (sometimes called Web 2.0) applications where users can not only search and discover content, but interact with the information, save to their profile, comment, rank and vote on information etc.   Within MarkLogic all of these user interactions are instantaneous and reflected immediately.

Customized publishing – these products allow users to group and aggregate content into bundles or packages for their use in alternative operations such as compiling research, creating offline reading materials (delivered to your Kindle device for future reading), etc.