Commercial search engines will surpass ERP in the future

In November 27, following the release of Google's low-end search machine, autonomy, a veteran search giant, also released a commercial search engine, ultraseek5.7, in more than 20 countries around the world. PreviouslyOn traseek's official Chinese website, you can download and install the 30-day free trial version of ultraseek5.7.

For domestic users, ultraseek is still a strange name, but in fact, ultraseek is already a long-established enterprise search brand that has been around for more than 10 years. It is promoted by the famous infoseek, the time is January 1, 1996. Since then, ultraseek was first acquired by Inktomi, followed by Verity. After autonomy acquired Verity earlier this year, ultraseek was formally incorporated into autonomy.

Industry insiders believe that autonomy's intention to break into the low-end enterprise search market by changing its previous high-end product line is to curb Google's offensive in the low-end enterprise search market. Although Google has not launched any enterprise-level search product in the Chinese market, the enterprise search market has become one of Google's most important seed businesses in the global market.

Get out of commercial search misunderstanding

With the emergence of the information economy, enterprise decision-making is increasingly dependent on the ability to query irrelevant content in different fields of the enterprise. However, selecting the right search engine for enterprises is a challenge, even for the oldest technology buyers.

"The requirements for enterprises to search for information vary widely. A series of search tools may be required, not just a single search engine. These tools may include many simple interfaces and report tools ." Susan Feldman, vice president of content technology at IDC search, said.

IDC believes that ordinary employees spend 3.5 hours a week on invalid searches, so it takes three hours an additional week to recreate files that cannot be found. After one year, for a company with 1000 employees, the total wage expenditure for ineffective searches is only USD 9.7 million. This number does not include the cost of employee searching for expired and wrong documents.

Even if an employee wants to perform a network-like search at work, the success rate of the Enterprise will not be high once the customer search tool is used to search for information on the network. Different enterprises have different requirements, including information storage methods, information usage methods, and protection methods.

In view of this, IDC believes that the relevance of business search must be adjusted to meet the unique needs of employees at any department or level. It organizes content to reflect the way employees browse information and return answers so that they can see the information and help them solve the problem.

 

In view of this, IDC believes that what enterprises really need is a search tool that is easy to install, provides high-correlation search, and can make personalized adjustments according to the company's complex business and technical requirements. In thisThe method adopted by the consumer search engine is too simple and direct, and does not support the requirements of this search engine.

Business search blueprint emerging

Industry insiders believe that, with the unprecedented prosperity of the commercial Internet, enterprise users are increasingly surrounded by massive volumes of information with a growing nuclear fission rate, and the competitive environment faced by enterprises has become ever more complex and changing. Therefore, how to automatically and intelligently collect, organize, classify, cluster, associate, analyze, and index information and push the most valuable information to the people who need it most, it maximizes the value of information without any manual intervention, thereby improving the rapid response capability of enterprises and realizing real-time monitoring, targeted tracking, and Intelligent Analysis of industry competition situation and competition intelligence, it has become an insurmountable topic for enterprises and must be satisfied.

According to autonomy coo Andy contandy katner, one of the highlights of ultraseek is that it is targeted at the target group and almost does not need to be customized, you can query results with only one or two words to return highly correlated results. You can also use the options to improve the display and functionality of the results list to meet the specific requirements of end users. In addition, the search results of ultraseek can be adjusted with relevance adjustment options to match the results with the information structure and the requirements of end users.

In terms of security, the performance of ultraseek is also commendable. Since different access permissions can be controlled based on the user's responsibilities or nature of work, ultraseek supports basic authentication and request and response verification for matching and filtering of the result list, this ensures that only the documents that the user has the permission to view are displayed in the result list.

In order to facilitate the user to quickly screen the result list and find the information that is most relevant to the task at hand, ultraseek can also group the results by site or folder location, to show end users which sites or folders are the most useful sources of information. To this end, ultraseek can intelligently replace incorrect or missing document titles with automatically generated and meaningful titles, helping users quickly find appropriate documents.

In the international market, commercial search has developed into a relatively mature industry. In China, this market is in the ascendant. However, industry experts predict that in the next few years, the scale of the Chinese enterprise-level search market will inevitably show explosive growth, and its scale will be larger than the peak ERP Market