Federated Search Connectors

Coveo Enterprise Search

Federates to: PeopleSoft, Siebel, SAP

Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) 5 is the first commercially-viable enterprise search solution for today’s complex data environments. Coveo Enterprise Search provides unbiased, secure information access for all documents and structured data stored in file systems, email servers, intranets, enterprise applications, databases, and Web sites. Based on industry standards, offering an award-winning combination of security, accuracy, and unrivaled user experience, Coveo Enterprise Search presents the best value in the marketplace.

Offered by: Coveo Solutions Inc.

Coveo Audio and Video Search

Federates to: OpenText, EMC Documentum, Vignette

Coveo Audio Video Search (CAVS) accesses rich media content with unparalleled precision and ease, allowing users to search across audio and video content as easily as they search across document content. CAVS’s patented “automatic training” capabilities leverage enterprise content to improve the precision of speech recognition. The result is a searchable transcript of speech content that is enterprise aware (i.e. proper names, employee names, domain terms, etc).

CAVS delivers a powerful, innovative, and cost-effective solution to the marketplace, enabling organizations to:

• Easily access content in eTraining and long distance learning solutions;
• Adhere to compliance and regulatory demands;
• Improve risk management initiatives;
• Deliver targeted multimedia content across the enterprise;
• Drive new revenue and content access based on user profiles;
• Improve customer service in call centers.

CAVS pricing starts at $40,000 to search up to 2,000 hours of rich media content and scales to handle hundreds of thousands of hours.

Offered by: Coveo Solutions Inc.

EMC Documentum Search Services for Microsoft Search Server 2008

Federates to: EMC Documentum

EMC provides a federated search broker native to Microsoft SharePoint, extending the reach of Microsoft Search Server 2008. Moreover, ECIS provides single sign on capabilities, simplifying access to multiple information sources by managing access credentials dynamically. Finally, EMC's ECIS leverages application-based indexes and security permission to ensure that knowledge workers gain only an appropriate level of access to information.

Offered by: EMC Corporation

Epicor Information Worker

Federates to: Epicor ERP

Epicor Information Worker (IW) is a highly innovative Office Business Application (OBA) that enables workers to access and use Epicor enterprise solutions through their familiar Microsoft Office system software. And because Epicor IW integrates with 2007 Microsoft Office system, users benefit from the interface elements and features of the most innovative and productive version of Microsoft Office system. Epicor IW integrates with all key components of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, including Office Outlook® 2007, Word 2007, Office Excel® 2007, and Office SharePoint® Server 2007.

By creating an OBA through which users can access and use Epicor ERP software, the company delivers key benefits including the following:

• Seamless Microsoft Office-to-Epicor experience
• Integrated communications within Office Outlook
• Intelligent document authoring within Office Word
• Data mining and analysis within Office Excel
• Disconnected and mobile user support

Epicor Information Worker

Federates to: Epicor ESA

Epicor for Service Enterprises features innovative business process management modeling to ensure the solution adapts and responds as the business changes and grows. Epicor for Service Enterprises consists of several project-focused suites, each containing individual modules that connect seamlessly to share information for complete efficiency. The highly compliant Web services architecture allows individual modules to be updated, customized, or enhanced as needed. Epicor for Service Enterprises delivers real business benefits derived from the utilization of XML Web services in an industry-defining solution for the service economy. It satisfies the market’s increased demand for collaboration among customers, suppliers, contractors, and employees, and it provides a straightforward and expert means for sourcing and assigning labor resources to projects.

Offered by: Epicor

Visual Fusion for Federated Search

Federates to: Flickr, Virtual Earth

The Visual Fusion Federated Search Connector enables Search Server 2008 Express to integrate with IDV's visual composite application suite, Visual Fusion, and Flickr, the popular online photo management and sharing application, allowing users to search millions of geotagged Flickr images and visualize the results on a Virtual Earth base map.

With Visual Fusion for Search organizations received a platform for collaboration, intuitive discovery, and broad data connections by combining the powerful capabilities of Visual Fusion Suite, Search Server Express, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Virtual Earth. By integrating Visual Fusion for Search and Search Server Express, users can visualize, in the context of location and time, the results of their keyword searches within a single, visual composite application.

Visual Fusion for Search provides users of Search Server Express with enhanced visual search capabilities that extend beyond the usual document paradigm.

Offered by: IDV Solutions

Enterprise Vault Federated Location

Federates to: Symantec Enterprise Vault

Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007 provides a software-based intelligent archiving platform that stores, manages, and enables discovery of corporate data from email systems, filer server environments, instant messaging platforms, and content management and collaboration systems. Enterprise Vault uses intelligent classification engines to manage data, improving a company's ability to retain and protect corporate information while reducing storage costs and simplifying management.

Enterprise Vault will provide federated search locations for Search Server 2008 for each content source (Email, IM, SharePoint documents, File system etc.) within the Enterprise Vault archive to allow customers to search archived content alongside other data repositories.

Offered by: Symantec

The Vorsite Content and Search Connectors for MOSS SharePoint Server

Federates to: IBM FileNet, EMC Documentum

The Vorsite Connectors provide integration points between Microsoft Office SharePoint Products and Technologies and enterprise content management systems such as Documentum and FileNet.

Key features include: content/document sharing, portal integration, unified and federated search.

Offered by: Vorsite Corporation

OneView Enterprise Search

Federates to: OpenText Hummingbird, Interwoven iManage

OneView Enterprise Search supports the way users work, whether they prefer searching or browsing for information. It securely crawls and indexes both structured and unstructured content from any data source, allowing users to easily find the information they need from multiple systems and content sources using SharePoint’s powerful full-text search.

Unified searching across all law firm systems, including millions of documents stored in document management systems, allows users to stay within the intranet while searching all content sources. Interactive search results -- including federated search with sorting, grouping and drill-down capabilities, navigation to related information, and contextual real-time integration with source system functionality -- are customizable to the needs of the users.

Offered by: XMLAW