Indexing Connectors

Indexing Connectors allow your search solution to index the contents of a target system, creating a catalog that can then be used to quickly return search results. Indexing Connectors provide the most powerful connection to a target system because they enable "intelligent access" through mechanisms that understand the file formats, data structures, and security features of the information source. Microsoft’s Indexing Connectors for unstructured data sources are often referred to as Protocol Handlers. For structured data sources, they are known as Business Data Catalog Application Definition Files.

Indexing Connector Partners

This page will be updated regularly as more partners make Indexing Connectors available for Microsoft's Enterprise Search products.

EMC Documentum Search Services for Microsoft Search Server 2008

Indexes: EMC Documentum

With EMC Documentum Search Services for Microsoft Search Server 2008, you'll never have to leave the familiar SharePoint interface to search across a broad range of information sources. This solution is easy-to-use and delivers merged, ranked, and clustered results.

Benefits include:

Searches broad range of non-OpenSearch repositories
Reuses existing application indexes
Merges search results from multiple sources
Compatible with any security schema

Offered by: EMC Corporation

SPWorks Enterprise Search Connector

Indexes: EMC Documentum, Exchange Server, Hummingbird, ODBC, OLEDB, SQL Server, Interwoven Worksite

Our Enterprise Search Connector is an extensible SharePoint Search protocol handler module. The module provides enhanced capabilities for indexing Line of Business Systems (LOB). It is easily configured through our standard SharePoint admin screens to connect to multiple systems simultaneously to provide combined enhanced metadata. Our security model is multi-layered with a complete AD mapping system and real time security trimming, allowing us to map and manage disparate non-AD based security models. Our metadata definition capability far exceeds any other solution with scriptable formatting, external lookups and external data profiling. We are able to index documents from any DM system (Interwoven WorkSite for instance) and retrieve additional metadata from a clients CRM system to be combined with the documents searchable properties.

Offered by: SharePoint Works