Search Engine Development

Enterprise Information Portals provide a starting point for people to access information and applications on the entire Intranet. They generally include a search engine for locating internal and external information; security features, so a person only has to use a single password; personalization so they get appropriate information; access to databases and enterprise applications; and so on.

In today's business world, time and information are arguably our two most precious resources. Yet studies show that businesses waste more than quarter of their time looking for information. The loss of productivity by businesses is also compounded by:

• Document creation and storage of information that cannot be easily retrieved
• Document mislabeling that does not meet the search criteria of employees looking for information
• Documents stored locally or on non-Intranet servers because it is too time consuming for publishing
• Documents having to be re-created to meet business demands where the information cannot be located

This loss of productivity leads to frustration by employees and businesses leaders searching for the right information at the right time without writing it again… Companies need an effective information search strategy...

Creating Value from Information

To fully realize the value of the information assets (documents, data, diagrams, media) your business creates, companies need to:

• Make information reliable and easily accessible
• Rank the information in order of relevance
• Ensure the information is current / latest versions
• Index the entire corporation
• Categorize sensitive information and keep them secure
• Build an enterprise view across the corporation

Users are more effective and happy when the tools for their personal productivity get results, don't waste their time and are easy to use.

New London Search Engine Solution

New London team up with Vivisimo to offer clients a comprehensive enterprise search engine solution to meet their information management and retrieval needs. The first thing to consider is the type of information stored.

Data Structures

Once companies have their search engine objectives clearly defined, you can work out what type of file formats and data sources your search engine will need to support. List out every file type used in creating the information that you want to share across the organization. These usually fall into one of three categories:

• Unstructured data formats: These are file formats that contain primarily text-based information. These include text files, word processor files, PDFs, emails. There is no real structure to these file formats and few relationships exist between elements within them.
• Semi-structured formats: These are file formats that contain a mixture of text-based and database information, with a basic structure. These include file types such as HTML, spreadsheets, linked documents, XML. There may be relationships between elements within these files, but they are not as rigidly defined as they are in structured formats
• Structured formats: These are file formats where the information is contained in a well-defined structure, such as a relational database. Many enterprise systems have structured system implementations, such as finance and HR systems, ERP and CRM systems, as well as many legacy databases.

Vivisimo provides unique enterprise software that searches, integrates, and categorizes textual information on the fly into crisp, meaningful, hierarchical folders. Our unique plug-and-play search and clustering approach allows enterprises to:

• Crawl and index internal documents and databases
• Add external sources such as subscription services, Web sites, and RSS feeds
• Search all internal and external sources with just one query
• Offer search results organized in categories rather than in long lists
• Implement a complete solution with a single IT person in hours or days, not months

No other categorization product delivers all of these benefits.

With Vivisimo, end users can find information more quickly, learn the types of available information at a glance, and uncover results that would otherwise be missed. Intranet users become immediately more productive, online publishers enhance their member services, and OEMs improve their products.

« Please contact New London Associates for more information or to set up a demonstration of the Vivisimo Search Engine Solution to see how it can address the information search needs for your organization...