Exalead CloudView Search Edition

Easy Unified Search, Information Access & Reporting

On the Web and in the enterprise, Exalead CloudView Search Edition™ uses advanced semantics and high-end indexing to provide your employees or customers with easy, unified information access, search and reporting.

This revolutionary approach solves many of today's most pressing IT challenges:

Web-Style Speed & Simplicity

"Our scientific and technical personnel wanted the same simplicity of use and quick response times they had become accustomed to on the Web when searching for information at work, regardless of the constraints of the professional context."

– Pierre Lagarde, IS Project Manager, BRGM
Download the BRGM Case Study

IT Challenges Addressed

  • Compartmentalized and heterogeneous knowledge bases
  • Inefficiencies due to unsuccessful searching and work duplication
  • Increasing critical security and privacy compliance issues
  • Under-utilization or non-use of important internal and external knowledge resources (e.g., videos, images, or audio files and the Web)
  • Data volumes that are increasing information management overall costs
  • Painful deployment, integration and/or migration

The CloudView Search Edition

Whether deployed for enterprise search, online information access, or search-based applications (SBAs), CloudView Search Edition efficiently addresses these IT challenges and provides an immediate ROI:

 

  • Revolutionizes decision-making
  • Fuels new competitive insights
  • Creates a richer, more engaging user experience
  • Enhances productivity and efficiency
  • Greatly increases IT agility
  • Lowers overall IS costs
  • Provides a unified and user-centric access to unstructured and structured data from internal and/or external data sources for better decision-making and richer content presentations
  • Boosts efficiency through more successful searching and real-time, unified data discovery
  • Boosts productivity through democratization of information access
  • Increase global value of information assets through enhanced classification and processing
  • Adds value to corporate information assets by enriching them with data either from public resources, or extracted from emerging formats like audio, video, images
  • Reinforces security and privacy policies
  • Limits overall cost of ownership

For further details, download the CloudView Platform Highlights document.

CloudView Streamlines Costly Processes

"According to IDC research, the time spent searching for information averages 8.8 hours per week, for a cost of $14,209 per worker per year. Analyzing information soaks up an additional 8.1 hours, costing an organization $13,078 annually."

– IDC Executive Brief: Information Access in Tomorrow's Enterprise. Download the IDC Executive Brief.

Exalead CloudView Search Edition 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
  • Thematic Internet crawls

PROCESS – Content Processing, Analysis and Structuration

  • Automatic document classification
  • Automatic metadata processing 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

Combatting Inefficiency

"The average information worker spends a quarter of their work hours searching for information, with one-third of that time resulting in failed searches, and an additional three hours lost to recreating existing corporate knowledge."

– IDC

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.
  • Role-based system administration

Need for Unified Access

"49% of survey respondents 'agreed' or 'strongly agreed' that it is a difficult and time consuming process to find the information they need to do their job."

– AIIM Market IQ on Findability

SECURE – Security

  • Data security using Access Control Lists and optional cryptography
  • Secured standards (AES, HTTPS) both for internal and external network interactions
  • Security Management Master for single-sign on and unified security among multiple data sources