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February 22, 2006
Enterprise Search - A useful BI tool
Companies and businesses everywhere are now realizing that their volume of data doubles every 3 months. This snowballing nature of data today makes enterprise search all the more relevant. It basically goes through your file system and indexed documents via your Web browser.
The look and feel of the search result pages is completely customizable using ASP and SQL. Enterprise search can find information stored in many different containers, including e-mail servers, desktops, enterprise application databases, content management systems, file systems, intranet sites and external Web sites.
Enterprise search applications become a sort of virtual repository of corporate information, uniting these disparate sources behind one interface. Now Google seems to be getting into this monopoly, which was controlled by 2 European companies. Call centers, AT&T, IBM, Siemens, and General Motors and other global companies have been using it to spot trends and answers.
Google hopes to undercut the specialists with its Google Search Appliance. Google Search Appliance looks inward, indexing and sifting the digital data to answer specific questions pertaining to that firm alone. Not only has Google been successful at providing an enterprise search tool for some companies but also has their end users derive a reasonable level of satisfaction and at much lower costs.
It is just a matter of time given the future in it, before the Internet Giants like MSN and Yahoo invest time, money and effort into bettering their own Enterprise Search engines to catch up. Enterprise search is different from the usual consumer search as the information is not stored on Web pages or Web sites and the standard of relevance is also different.
Inside the enterprise the relevance is different from that of the internet while sifting through the data. And, relevance algorithms that work well for consumer Web search don't apply inside the enterprise. Inside an enterprise you might with an enterprise search come up with thousands of relevant data and all could be equally relevant and this is the main concern that is being addressed by the providers.
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