Enterprise search

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Enterprise search is the practice of identifying and enabling specific content across the enterprise to be indexed, searched, and displayed to authorized users.

Contents 1 Enterprise search vendors 1.1 Major vendors 1.2 Specialized vendors 1.3 Superplatforms 1.4 SAP-oriented 1.5 Microsoft-oriented 1.6 Search appliances 1.7 Hosted services 1.8 Lower-cost, web-oriented 1.9 Open source 2 See also 3 Further reading 4 External links

[edit] Enterprise search vendors

[edit] Major vendors

• Autonomy:

  IDOL Server

  K2 Enterprise (formerly Verity)

• Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation
• Endeca: Information Access Platform
• Exalead: exalead one:enterprise
• Fast Search & Transfer:

  Enterprise Search Platform (ESP)

  RetrievalWare (formerly Convera)

• Open Text:

  Hummingbird Search Server

  Livelink Search

• Vivisimo: Vivisimo Velocity
• X1 Technologies: X1 Enterprise Search Suite
• ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform

[edit] Specialized vendors

• Aduna: Enterprise search solutions based on Guided Exploration
• AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution
• conceptsearching

  conceptSearch

  conceptClassifier

• Coveo

Coveo G2B Information Access Suite

Coveo G2B for Email

Coveo G2B for CRM

Coveo G2B for Multimedia

• dtSearch

Desktop/Network

Engine(SDK)

Web

Publish

• Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito
• Funnelback: Funnelback Search
• InQuira: InQuira
• ISYS Search Software:

  ISYS:desktop

  ISYS:web

  ISYS:sdk

• SoftInform: SearchInform Server
• Siderean Software: Seamark Navigator
• TeraText: TeraText Suite
• USU AG: USU KnowledgeMiner - selflearning Enterprise Search for multiple formats and systems
• Whatever sa/nv: Knowledge Plaza - "The place beyond search". The Enterprise Social Search platform

[edit] Superplatforms

• IBM: OmniFind
• Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services
• SAP: TREX and SAP Enterprise Search
• Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
• USU: KnowledgeMiner
• Mindbreeze: Mindbreeze Enterprise Search Platform

[edit] SAP-oriented

• IXULT: HIVE
• SAP: TREX and SAP Enterprise Search

[edit] Microsoft-oriented

• conceptsearching:

  conceptClassifier for SharePoint

• Coveo: Coveo G2B Information Access Suite
• dtSearch: dtSearch
• Innerprise: ES.NET 2004
• Forward IT: Forward Search
• Mondosoft: MondoSearch
• Microsoft: Microsoft Search Server

[edit] Search appliances

• Google: Google Search Appliance
• Queplix: Queplix Universal Search Appliance
• Thunderstone: Thunderstone Search Appliance

[edit] Hosted services

• Adeptic: AESS Adeptic Enterprise Search Suite
• Blossom Software: Blossom Enterprise Search
• VisualSciences: Search
• Aspect Search: Hosted Search Service

[edit] Lower-cost, web-oriented

• Autonomy:Ultraseek
• IBM: OmniFind Yahoo! Edition

[edit] Open source

• Aduna: Open source enterprise search solutions based on Guided Exploration
• Apache Lucene
• Flax: Open source, based on Xapian. Project page
• Nutch web crawler based on Apache Lucene
• Solr Enterprise Search Server based on Apache Lucene

[edit] See also

• Enterprise information access
• Knowledge management
• Text mining

[edit] Further reading

• "Making Search Work - Implementing Web, Intranet & Enterprise search" Martin White (2007) ISBN 978-1-85604-502-2

[edit] External links

• Butler Group: Enterprise Search and Retrieval (Oct 2006)
• CMS Watch: The 2008 Enterprise Search Report (Nov 2007)
• Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, 2007 (before 2005 titled "Enterprise Search")
• Goebel Group: Enterprise Desktop Search Tool Matrix
• CMSWatch, Enterprise Search Vendor List