Who We Are

Jumper Networks, Inc.




Our Story		 Jumper was born out of frustration and a limited budget. Back in 2007, while working on a consulting engagement for a large life sciences company, Steve Perry came to the inevitable conclusion that Intranet search was utterly useless. He was tasked with "fixing" the search problem. When he delved into the detail behind the numerous “search sucks” statements, he found two common areas of deficiency:

   1. Metadata – basically the complete or almost complete lack of it attached to the organizations content and data
   2. Irrelevant search results – not a deficiency in search engine technology but in the management of search in general, and the configuration of the search tool in particular.

With a limited budget the task seemed impossible. This common underlying problem is difficult to fix. Metadata exists with legacy content and data. Updating all metadata is a duanting task. Under pressure they came up with a very novel and innovate idea. Why not let the users update the metadata? Tagging enterprise content and data much like users do on the web.

A few months later Jumper 2.0 was ready and quickly became a huge hit with users and the result proved to be quite unexpected. Search was slowly being improved but discovery was radically transformed.

Search is a poor tool for discovery. This is a functional limitation. Users may not know that specific content exists or could be useful, and search cannot reveal this to them. The concept of enabling discovery is key to successfully leveraging information assets. As good as your search gets with improved metadata, search does not surface interesting content or data before you know that you need it. Applying social bookmarking aspects was valuable because it exposed information that users would never have guessed that they cared about.


Our Company		 From this project Jumper Networks was born. We are a privately held company located in Plymouth MA and the the publisher of the innovative and award-winning Jumper 2.0 open source collaborative search engine. Our company develops and supports open source software that aims to improve search and discovery across your enterprise. We deliver a holistic and targeted solution to share, search, and access the growing volumes of distributed information regardless of vendor, format, or location. Jumper Networks is the leader in the Collaborative Search Engine (CSE) space with close to 7000 Enterprise downloads and deployment growth of over 200% per year.


Our Mission		 Our mission is to make the worlds silos of information more searchable. We want to empower millions of users to tag every piece of information on the planet. In the process improve the breadth, depth, and quality of search. To organize information in a more fluid fashion so users can easily discover exactly the information resources they need, when they need it, and that they can do so in a more efficient and timely manner. We are committed to turning the ever increasing volumes of content, media and data into new insights, efficiencies, and opportunities.


Our Markets		 Jumper 2.0 servers customers primarily with heavy research & development needs. We currently have deployments in many of the leading Life Sciences, Pharmacuetical, Automotive, Aerospace, Heavy Machinery, Food & Beverage, Legal, and Education industries. Jumper drives revenue through the Jumper Channels platform that delivers targeted B2B marketing to companies that serve these industries.


Our Founder		 Steve Perry is the CEO and founder of Jumper Networks. Perry is a data integration and search expert with entrepreneurial experience at a number of startups. Most recently, Perry has provided his extensive experience as a consultant to leading life sciences and pharmaceutical companies while developing the core Jumper software platform. Prior to this he served as Senior Partner of Vanco PLC global telecommunications consultant and developed enterprise software for the telecommunications industry. He holds a BA in Business Management from the University of North Carolina and resides in Plymouth MA with his wife and four children.
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Our Technology		 Steve's pioneering efforts in the P2P industry led him to create breakthrough technologies which will drive Jumper's future growth:
  * A patent–pending query routing technology that routes search queries across very large numbers of stand-alone Jumper CSEs.
  * A proprietary indexing technology that allows tags from very large numbers of stand-alone Jumper CSEs to be shared.
Jumper’s technology will allow for the growing number of point-solution and customized Jumper CSEs to be networked.

Collaborative Community Search Engine

Jumper Networks is the publisher of the innovative and award-winning Jumper 2.0 open source collaborative search engine. Jumper 2.0 is a collaborative search engine and social knowledge management platform. Jumper 2.0 lets you search and share high-value content, media, and data across remote locations using knowledge tags to capture knowledge about information in remote storage. The software represents a revolution in enterprise search that delivers a holistic and targeted search capability to knowledge workers in a community of practice. It is a point solution approach to search based on skill-set, discipline, project, or job description that crowdsouces the knowledge, experience, expertise, and insights of those who do the work.


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