The company marketed and sold a suite of embedded search, mobile access and information management infrastructure technologies.
Established in 1988 by Ian Davies, ISYS previously marketed and sold enterprise search applications.
Davies developed prototype text-retrieval software that would be suitable for use in large databases.
[2] In July 2017, Hyland Software acquired Enterprise Software division of Lexmark and integrated Enterprise Search into its product suite [3] ISYS Search is capable of searching multiple disparate data sources, including Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, Open Office, HTML files, ZIP files, all major e-mail products, all SQLdata sources, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, and Lotus Domino.
Some of ISYS's content-mining capabilities include automatic categorisation, entity extraction, parametric search, hit-highlighting and navigation, relevance ranking, and multiple query methods.