Our technology emulates human processes for searching, rather than outdated and ineffective methods employed by other search engines. Imagine if you were looking through the phonebook for an unusual sounding name which you didn’t know how to spell. You would check out names based upon your understanding of the language, your previous experience, and other “rules” until you found a suitable match. IST attacks the problem similarly by combining different approaches to generate the best possible search results.

Other approaches to name searching have problems:

1) Exact name searches don’t account for variation and thus, have a high likelihood of returning empty results.

2) Wildcard searches are not much better, depending entirely on the user’s ability to guess which characters to include.

3) Traditional approaches like Soundex, Alphasearch, Fuzzy Searching, Match-code, and others all have discrepancies and often return either no matches or too many mismatches.

Using our comprehensive rule-based matching algorithms, IST’s search solutions produce faster and more accurate matches, while minimizing mismatches. We intelligently overcome variations and effectively handle acronyms, nicknames, abbreviations, extra and noise words. We support non-Anglican names, technical data, medical, or other specialized information. And because of our products’ extraordinary flexibility, functionality, ease of use, and versatility, an almost limitless variety of applications are possible.

In short, IST is The Intelligent Choice for your searching and matching needs!