Enterprise search accelerators and services for Google search appliance
The Google Search Appliance (GSA) brings its ubiquitous and simple google.com user interface, so familiar to internet search users, to the enterprise. It provides the business stakeholders, partners, employees, customers and others with secure and authorized access to the organization's information sources.
The GSA provides superior access to enterprise information while protecting sensitive data from unauthorized users. However, GSA on-board platform extensions only support sources like websites, file shares, databases and SharePoint 2010. Extending search capability to other sources like content management systems, document repositories, ERP, CRM systems, and BI systems require 3rd party extensions (also called connectors or adaptors).
Also, while GSA’s plug-n-play architecture enables the enterprise with basic search rollout over intranet public content across basic content sources, organizations often need technical assistance with extending the deployment into disparate business critical content repositories and enterprise applications and across complex security and deployment setups.
Why Persistent?
Persistent is one of the earliest and strategic Google enterprise partners and provides the necessary accelerators and services to the enterprises considering Google search appliance solution.
Key Assets:
- Persistent provides a ready suite of crawl-n-index connectors (enterprise content search-enabling connectors – ECSC) to important ECMs, Groupwares and Portals, which extends Google search capability to wider enterprise information assets.
- Persistent provides a Security Manager bridge and set of plug-ins to Identity management and SSO systems thus enabling extendible, seamless secure search integration.
- Persistent has an elaborate Google Search Lab with an array of pre-configured GSAs and connectors that can be leveraged for assisting demonstrations, evaluations, testing and support for enterprise customers.
- Persistent has built and nurtured the Google Enterprise Search Practice over the last 5+ years and now has a strong team of GSA, enterprise content & security SMEs and integration & deployment professionals.
- Persistent, being one of the pioneering leaders in the area of outsourced product development (OPD) leverages its set of services in the area of content management, enterprise integration, application security, usability engineering, performance engineering, and professional services – to provide comprehensive enterprise search solutions & deployment services for enterprises.
Customer Benefits:
- Persistent’s (ECSC) offers ready-to-deploy connectors that can bridge the interoperability gap and extend the power of Google search appliance. Connectors are available for Lotus Notes, Domino, SAP Knowledge Management, Opentext Hummingbird DM, Documentum eRoom, Oracle Webcenter (Aqualogic Portal) Interaction, IBM Websphere Portal WCM, BEA Weblogic Portal, and a few others.
- The Persistent ECSC framework provides a set of well-defined, unified interfaces, reusable pre-built components, a proven methodology and the required infrastructure to deliver the necessary custom enterprise content integration for GSA.
All this enables the enterprises to expedite their GSA evaluations and rollout maximizing the value of their investments into enterprise information sources.