Coveo Enterprise Search is available for free for up to 5000 items.
Ive not tried it yet but looks an interesting solution for small MCMS sites. Please pass on any feedback.
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Coveo Enterprise Search
Coveo Enterprise Search is available for free for up to 5000 items.
Ive not tried it yet but looks an interesting solution for small MCMS sites. Please pass on any feedback.
1 Comments:
My recent experience with the CES product here in Australia has been surprisingly very positive, and frankly believe that CES is in many ways significantly better, and FAR LESS expensive, than a number of $500k+ Enterprise Search systems I've worked with over the past several years.
CES is better because the search works really well giving highly relevant results, there's a simple web GUI for users, and the administrator interface just about does it all through the web GUI also. That is, you don't have to go and painfully tweak numerous configuration files with some text editor or write those tedious search scripts to use CES. The security configurations in CES are also much easier to work with than other Enterprise Search products i've used. CES integrates directly into the Microsoft security model so all the file and folder access control list info and Active Directory permissions are maintained on user's access to the searchable documents. That is, users only get search results for documents they're entitled to see. This is why desktop search products are not very good for businesses. Most of them don't have security. The other problem I've seen desktop search products introduce is when several users all start indexing the same business content; the network and server loads soar and become unusable.
CES also seems to have many more basically useful features than other Enterprise Search products now coming into the market. I'm guessing this is because CES originally came from the Copernic group who have been in the search business for years, and so they have loads of user experience to draw on in building CES.
The Australian, NZ and South East Asia master distributor for CES called Hyperinsight Pty Ltd (www.hyperinsight.com) has made a number of the CES manuals available on their website including the .NET API. See:
www.hyperinsight.com
I'm aware that Hyperinsight have provided CES to a rapidly growing number of Australian companies from small to very large including: several small engineering companies, a large bank in Melbourne, and a huge ASX listed recruitment company. These companies have deployed the standalone version of CES and/or the SharePoint version, and in speaking with them, they all seem to be really positive about it. One organisation called ITS Australia are using it through their extranet with some searchable info being available to the public and other info is only available internally.
I'd definitely recommend CES for Enterprise Search applications.
With regards,
Rohan Fernando
STRATINNOVA
PS. I've heard on the Coveo Solutions Inc USA grapevine that there may be a new major release of CES coming before end of 2005 that has even more features.
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