This Magic Quadrant assesses vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a range of technologies. Their capabilities include: search; federated search, content analytics, such as content classification, categorization and clustering, fact and entity extraction, taxonomy creation and management, information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding; and desktop search to address user-controlled repositories to locate and "invoke" documents, data and e-mail.

With all of the challenges that the Internet poses, businesses must plan to succeed online. eBusiness solutions provider non~linear creations (NLC) employs its distinct Performance Framework approach to map out those plans – and leverages the business benefits of Microsoft technologies in online solutions that drive measurable value.