- Enterprise search
Enterprise search is the practice of identifying and enabling specific content across the enterprise to be indexed, searched, and displayed to authorized users.
Enterprise search summary
The term
Enterprise search is used to describe the application of search technology to information within an organization. This is in contrast to the other two main type of horizontal search environment:Web search andDesktop search .The major challenge faced by Enterprise search is the need to index documents from a variety of sources such as:
File systems ,Intranets ,Document Management Systems ,E-mail ,Databases and then present a consolidated list of relevance ranked documents from these various sources. In addition, many applications require the integration of structured data as part of the search criteria and when presenting results back to the users. And of course access controls are vital if users are to be restricted to documents to which they are granted access by the various document repositories within the enterprise. These major challenges are unique to Enterprise search.See also
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List of Enterprise Search Vendors
*Enterprise information access
*Knowledge management
*Text mining Further reading
* "Making Search Work - Implementing Web, Intranet & Enterprise search" Martin White (2007) ISBN 978-1-85604-502-2
* [http://www.butlergroup.com/research/reportHomepages/ESR.asp Butler Group] : Enterprise Search and Retrieval (Oct 2006)
* [http://www.cmswatch.com/Search/Report/ CMS Watch] : The 2008 Enterprise Search Report (Nov 2007)
* [http://www.gartner.com Gartner] : Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, 2007 (before 2005 titled "Enterprise Search")
* [http://www.goebelgroup.com/enterprisedesktopsearchmatrix.htm Goebel Group] : Enterprise Desktop Search Tool Matrix
* [http://www.cmswatch.com/Search/Vendors/ CMSWatch, Enterprise Search Vendor List]
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