What Is Enterprise Search?

An enterprise search system provides extensive capabilities for searching any number of structured and unstructured data sources with a single query.

So what are structured and unstructured data sources?

Data can be designated as unstructured or structured data for classification within an organization. The term unstructured data refers to any data that has no identifiable structure. For example, images, videos, email, documents and text are all considered to be unstructured data within a dataset. This is in contrast to a database, for example, which is a common example of “structured” data.

How Oracle-Endeca helps Enterprise Search?

Considering Endeca the first really modern platform, created in the late 1990s when it was clear that search was more than just a box on a page. They were just about the first platform to have a fully integrated console that a business user can actually understand and customize as per user search and navigation behavior. They made search relevance mode effective with their module. So it’s not just search it’s the powerful eCommerce.

On October 18, 2011, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca, a leading provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions.

Oracle with Endeca plans to create a comprehensive technology platform to process, store, manage, search and analyze structured and unstructured information together enabling businesses to make stronger and more profitable decisions.

The combination of Oracle ATG Commerce with Endeca’s InFront web commerce solutions is expected to enhance cross-channel commerce, merchandising, and online customer experiences. Adding Endeca Latitude software to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBI EE) is expected to provide a single unified user interface for analysis of structured and unstructured data.

What features does Oracle-Endeca provides?

Endeca InFront is a leading customer experience management platform that enables businesses to deliver highly targeted and relevant customer experiences online with advanced merchandising and content targeting tools for web commerce.

What this means?

Guidance to Relevant Results

Customers want flexibility to search/navigate based on their preferences, and view content relevant to them. With Oracle Endeca, we get superior quality Search capability to drill down to a specific content relevant to our Search and Navigation help us to get to what we are looking for. Therefore user feels the power of GUIDED SEARCH.

Content Spotlighting

Automatically promote contextually relevant information—such as related articles, promotions, or reviews—based on the search and navigation state.

Endeca Latitude is a technology platform that enables businesses to rapidly develop analytic applications bringing information from many unstructured and structured information sources together.

Information Transformation Layer

• Integration with  industry-leading ETL tools for data ingest (e.g. Informatica)
• Integration with best-of-breed data enrichment tools (e.g. Lexalytics)
• Connectors to leading enterprise applications
• Best-of-breed crawlers for file systems and Web sites