Enterprise Search

Search is how people expect to find information, but enterprise search tools require different technology than the Web. Enterprise data structures are more varied, people's goals are different, and IT requirements are more stringent. And search means more than just the search box. It includes all the ways people go about finding information, including navigation, analytics, visualizations, and text mining.

Search Applications built on the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP) are designed specifically for enterprise requirements. They are different than one-size-fits-all approaches. Instead, they let IT departments partner with the business to tailor an experience to a specific set of user goals and data.

Examples of customized Enterprise Search solutions Endeca customers have deployed include:

Knowledge Management: Helping a pre-sales organization target prospects more efficiently by letting them make sense of thousands of products and supporting materials alongside account histories
Human Resources Management: Helping professional services organizations optimally staff projects by analyzing resumes, project histories, billing, and availability.
Intelligence Analysis: Helping national intelligence analysts piece together looming threats by making sense of both raw and processed intelligence

Tailored search applications like these outperform one-size-fits-all approaches. This means better daily decisions that, one by one, millions of times over, make or save Endeca customers hundreds of millions of dollars. At the same time, enterprise IT departments get the security, scalability, and reliability they demand.

IT organizations develop Search Applications on the Endeca IAP. At the highest level, the platform gives:

Customized application development: Endeca solutions are built using APIs that allow extensive, fine-grained controls, while using open standards to integrate with other application components and data sources. In addition, they include web-based controls so line-of-business users can configure applications without relying on IT intervention.
Advanced search and text mining: Endeca offers world-class enterprise search features, including faceted search, natural language search, and visualizations. Endeca can augment unstructured content through text mining, provided by Endeca's own semantic technologies as well as deep integrations with third-party partners.
Powerful content integration: Endeca’s Content Acquisition System makes it possible to crawl and integrate both structured and unstructured content, and to transform and augment data. In addition, the platform works with third-party ETL tools and web-based information services.
Enterprise-class infrastructure: The IAP is designed for unmatched data volume, traffic, security, languages, and reliability, meeting the needs of customers like WalMart.com and the Defense Intelligence Agency.