Embedded Search and Information Extraction and Access for OEMs

Exalead CloudView OEM Edition provides the ideal balance of features, performance, total cost and demand on ISV and customer resources. It is a next generation search solution specially architected for ISVs that want to use search as a competitive differentiator while preserving a low TCO. Moreover, it meets even the most demanding customer's demand for unified data access and a more web-like search and discovery experience.

The Need for Unified Access

"40 percent of customer service managers say that the most difficult aspect of managing information for their job is going to numerous sources of information."

– Accenture Survey, January 2007

This revolutionary approach solves many of today's pressing OEM information access challenges:

IT Challenges Addressed

• The need for better search and retrieval
• The desire for easy discovery and exploration
• The need for the right balance between TCO and functionality
• The need for reliable, scalable perfomance

In efficiently addressing these challenges, CloudView OEM edition provides an immediate ROI:

The CloudView OEM Solution

• A pure SOA Architecture: Web-services-based APIs with synchronous and asynchronous calls for key functions, including search, administration, and push APIs
• An extensive library of built-in data source connectors enabling rapid extraction of data from external applications
• Structured error handling that accelerates development, maintenance, and support cycles
• Complete control over application administration
• Easy refinement and navigation of results
• Spelling auto-correction and phonetic and approximate spelling search
• Support for sophisticated queries that blend the best of advanced text search (such as boolean operators and regular expressions) with traditional structured database queries
• Unlimited scalability

CloudView OEM Features

COLLECT – Connectors, Crawlers and Formats

• Connect to any data type and source in the cloud (see our complete list of connectors)
• Built-in connectors for 300+ data formats: websites, blogs, ODBC, filesystems, email servers, Lotus Notes, Documentum, Microsoft Sharepoint, etc.
• High-Performance API and Programmable Connector Framework for unlimited connectivity

PROCESS – Content Processing, Analysis and Structuration

• Automatic document classification
• Automatic metadata enrichment based on your organization's context
• Automatic extraction of embedded concepts
• Named entity recognition (people, places, dates, currency)
• Rules-based document matching
• Easy integration of third party modules: specific language support, integration of public or proprietary taxonomies, multimedia processing
• HTML Extraction Toolkit to easily structure web pages
• Support for 50+ languages

ACCESS – Information Access

• Boolean operators
• Query Agent to customize query interpretation pipe (enabling complex interpretation of natural language queries, stemming and phonetic processing, approximate matching, entity matching, synonym expansion, etc.)
• User Query Language for performing numerical, geographical, date queries, in exact and complete mode
• User-customizable relevancy ranking
• Spelling Correction: automatically integrates terms
• High-performance search API

INTERACT – User Interactions

• Multi-axial guided navigation: automatically creates a dynamic table of contents based on the search results.
• Rich document visualization: fast scanning with thumbnail document images, file type icons, and document previews with search term highlighting
• Smart bookmarking
• Search Application Infrastructure available in multiple languages for easy customization and third party application integration

DELIVER – A Pure SOA Architecture, High Performance Design

• Service-Oriented Platform: distributed computing framework with high-availability, redundancy, etc.
• Support for most standard 32 bits and 64 bits computing environments and platforms (Windows, Linux, Solaris)
• Administrable Components, delivered as a set of Web Services with a fully programmable API, sample code for multiple platforms (.NET, Java, C++), and a developer network
• Distributed Computing Framework

MANAGE – Management and Monitoring

• Complete Monitoring and Management Interface providing a full open interface to configure and monitor document analysis, index build, search and security
• Configuration Tracking – manages the configuration and the scheduling of the connectors and the search interfaces.

SECURE – Security

• Data security using Access Control Lists and optional cryptography
• Secured standards (AES, HTTPS) both for internal and external network interactions