This enterprise search middleware delivers relevant results with sub-second response times from corporate information wherever business data lives, including Web sites, relational databases, file systems, newsgroups, portals, collaboration systems, applications and content management systems.
The end goal of enterprise search technology is to satisfy the user. Users want to find the information they need quickly and without having to wade through irrelevant results. IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition is designed to help achieve this goal for search users around the world.

Solution Summary

Users expect to be able to search for information on an ad hoc basis, in real time, using the free-form text search that has become natural to them from their experiences searching the Internet. For an enterprise, the costs of outdated or invisible information can be high in terms of hidden internal productivity costs and outright revenue. Hidden or inaccessible data not only affects internal productivity, it also impacts the customer-facing side of the organization.

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition solution targets the core issue of finding the right information quickly and easily, without the need for complex IT solutions that take time and hold up mission-critical processes.

OmniFind Enterprise Edition has state-of-the art relevancy algorithms and linguistic analysis capabilities specifically designed to deliver highly relevant search results and sub-second response times for enterprise content searches.

OmniFind analyzes and indexes information from throughout Your enterprise. By simply entering a keyword or phrase, you can quickly search intranets, corporate public Web sites, relational database systems, file systems and content repositories. OmniFind Enterprise Edition searches the information sources in your business, wherever they are located.

IBM has tested and used the product for over a year on its own intranet – one of the world’s largest of its kind, with more than 10,000 different websites and 9 million unique pages. IBM’s intranet serves over 300,000 people and 80,000 queries per day with sub-second response rates, accuracy and IBM’s rigorous 24x7 standards.

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition Benefits

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition will help You implement enterprise search functionality as part of your company’s overall information integration platform. It introduces high-quality, scalable, secure, free-form text search that will find the most relevant corporate information for employees, suppliers, partners and customers.

OmniFind Enterprise Edition will provide You with numerous technology and business benefits:

• Returns high quality search results using a variety of linguistic analysis and search-ranking techniques.
• Supports a wide variety of enterprise data sources, including Web content, content management systems, relational databases, collaboration systems and more. An extensible architecture enables connections to other data sources.
• Delivers high-performance with sub-second response time.
•  Scales to millions of documents and thousands of users.
• Provides centralized administration with monitoring. Analytical features are transparent, minimizing administrator tasks required to get high-quality search results.
• Includes flexible security mechanisms for protecting enterprise assets from disclosure.
• Includes out-of-the-box sample portlet for integration into portal environments, and a well-defined Java® API built around the IBM strategic interface for indexed search solutions.
• Offers a migration path for customers using IBM WebSphere Portal search engine by providing highly relevant results with broader content reach and scalability.

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition is part of the IBM information management and integration family of products. The strategic vision of this portfolio is for you to serve up information on demand to provide users a unified, integrated view of information regardless of differences in data format, data location and access interfaces.

Unfortunately, most organizations struggle to make isolated silos of information accessible to decision makers and the processes that rely on this information to be effective. WebSphere Information Integrator software powers corporate intranets, providing high-quality enterprise search with sub-second response times to help deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.

The WebSphere Information Integrator product portfolio provides autonomic features that will assist to reduce the burden on Your IT staffs for managing complex data architectures. These capabilities translate into faster time to market, greater value from existing assets, better cost control and innovative insights based on new ways of combining and using information. Only IBM is bringing together the fundamental technologies to realize this vision.

WebSphere Information Integrator Services Overview

WebSphere Consulting Services specializes in the deployment of a search engine to integrate into Your environment. Software Services consultants have the experience to help You build and manage an enterprise search portal infrastructure for your enterprise. With an in-depth knowledge of IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition technologies, we can design, implement and deploy a search application to efficiently access and search enterprise data sources, file systems, content repositories, intranets, extranets and corporate public Web sites.

To accelerate the benefits of effective searching across You enterprise, we place an important focus on integrating this search engine with line of business, customer service, Portal, Web content management, and other existing enterprise applications.

The IBM Software Services team can provide the right skills necessary to implement IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition in distributed and mainframe environments with the following Service Offerings:

• Design & Planning Services will help You design an optimal search solution with consideration for application design, data sources to be searched, performance and security. This service will help You accelerate the time to value of their software investment.
• Fast Start Services will assist You with the installation and configuration of OmniFind Enterprise Edition. This service will help You get off to a quick start with implementing OmniFind while simultaneously assisting Your IT to get up to speed on the products.
• Industry Taxonomy Services will help You plan and implement a search and categorization strategy based on technology developed by IBM Research. At the end of the engagement, You will have a fully implemented OmniFind Enterprise Edition system, and an organized view of their websites. With the use of a highly accurate categorization tool, a full directory of Your internal or external websites will be built, categorizing each page into one of 7900 pre-existing industry-oriented categories. This offering will help You maximize their investment by getting an organized view of their site with a minimum investment in time and effort.
• Upgrade Services is designed to help customers upgrade from WebSphere Portal Search (JURU) to OmniFind Enterprise Edition.

The OmniFind Enterprise Edition Services team will work jointly with your staff to provide technical assistance and knowledge transfer. The primary purpose of assisting the customer is to provide enhanced skills, it is not meant to replace the formal classroom education available.