White Papers

White Papers

Endeca Information Access Platform White Paper (3.71 MB)
The importance of search has grown. Information continues to proliferate in the enterprise, and people now expect search to be their entry point to find it all. For enterprises evaluating solutions, this white paper will help you make sense of the newest search technologies.
Indexing Enterprise Content White Paper (380.28 KB)
This white paper focuses on Endeca’s Content Acquisition System, which offers a collection of powerful yet easy-to-deploy tools for acquiring content stored in various systems across the enterprise.
Endeca Commerce Suite Whitepaper: Powering a Dynamic Storefront (3.66 MB)
Online shoppers want to have control over their shopping experience and take the path through your site that makes the most sense to them, with the tools and content needed to make the best purchasing decision. Learn how to create a dynamic storefront experience by delivering the most targeted and contextually relevant content at each point in a shopper’s path. Endeca’s technology has a proven track record of increasing visits, conversions and average order values, and helping retailers gain a competitive advantage over their peers.
4 Tips for Effective Online Merchandising (1.76 MB)
In this whitepaper, you will learn about the different online merchandising approaches available and tips for implementing each on every page of your site to boost conversion rates and maximize order values.
5 Tactics for Creating a Dynamic Online B2B Catalog (2.8 MB)
How can your online B2B catalog convert more browsers into buyers? This whitepaper outlines 5 tactics for creating a dynamic B2B catalog that delivers the most relevant and targeted content to increase conversion rates, customer loyalty, and average order values.
Integrating eCommerce Technologies to Deliver a Dynamic Storefront White Paper (3.77 MB)
There are a handful of core technologies that make up the eCommerce technology stack. And the most successful eCommerce merchants – those able to innovate quickly and stay ahead of the competition – understand best-of-breed technologies and how best to integrate each. In this paper, you will learn how Endeca interacts with key technologies in the eCommerce stack and how to integrate and operate your Web CMS, eCommerce platforms, PIM/ PCMsystems, Recommendations Engines, Site Analytics, and Ratings and Reviews Platforms in order to maximize the value of your eCommerce investments.
4 SEO Fundamentals to Boost Natural Search Traffic (793.46 KB)
Want to know more about why SEO should matter to your online business strategy? This research-based SEO white paper to get all the supporting industry and analyst data you need to make the case for starting an SEO program at your company. And get started with four SEO fundamentals that will help you make simple, yet critical, investments for an immediate and lasting impact on your site.
Enriching Business Decisions: Combining Search & Text Analytics (1.79 MB)
In today’s fast-paced business environment, employees must make in-the-moment decisions that demand insight beyond basic facts. Much of that insight is readily available as text – stored in blogs, documents, customer feedback forms, and even news feeds. Unfortunately, most companies are unable to bring that information into play in their essential decision-making. By adding text analytics to the power and simplicity of search applications, accessing the insight available within documents is easily achievable. This provides every user with the ability to discern the quality of their customer service, brand loyalty, and other information that is critical to remaining competitive.
Information Visibility Across PLM and ERP in the Enterprise (1.91 MB)
This whitepaper describes how Endeca’s search applications provide the information visibility and analytics to the enterprise, and how they can be highly effective at supporting the PLM and ERP users during the product development lifecycle.
The Discovery for Manufacturing White Paper (1.55 MB)
The applications in Endeca’s Discovery for Manufacturing suite provide a new way to increase quality and remove costs from the value chain, whether it is cutting downstream costs, saving in direct spend, or decreasing warranty costs. Download this white paper to learn how these breakthrough solutions can be applied to your manufacturing environment.
How to Leverage the Endeca IAP to Boost Your SEO (540.63 KB)
As web search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing continue to drive a significant amount of traffic to websites, it is increasingly important to factor the impact of these search engines into online marketing strategies. Few customer acquisition channels are as effective as achieving high ranking natural search results for important keywords on major search engines. For most commercial websites, natural search engine optimization (SEO) is, or is quickly becoming, a major priority. This whitepaper offers Endeca customers best practices for applying SEO techniques to their Endeca search application.
Information Access Solutions for Media and Publishing White Paper (202.06 KB)
Information providers of all types, including directories, news and magazine publishers, and multimedia content suppliers, continue to make substantial investments in their online business. This white paper will give you a closer look at how online search failures negatively affect the business, why they occur, and what new solution can improve search success to help differentiate a site and provide competitive advantage.
Partner White Paper: Advanced Information Access (353.9 KB)
The ability to leverage existing company knowledge is vital to innovation. Advanced information access solutions go beyond simply finding and retrieving content to allowing a company to organize and utilize their full library of structured and unstructured data to provide quick, relevant results to users –regardless of their business silo. This Kalypso white paper covers issues and opportunities facing companies who are considering information access projects, as well as lessons learned from companies with mature deployments.