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| New Google Search Appliance is Announced Google Inc. announces the new Google Search Appliance, featuring Google OneBox for Enterprise, developed in partnership with some of the world's leading enterprise applications vendors. Google OneBox for Enterprise - one of many new features of the Google Search Appliance - gives corporations secure access to information in any application in the enterprise from the convenience of the Google search box. "OneBox" refers to the process of typing a query into Google.com for specific category information, such as airline flight times, local weather, or stock prices. With Google OneBox for Enterprise, corporate information - such as contact and calendar info, HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status - is now instantly searchable through a Google search box as part of the Google Search Appliance. Google OneBox for Enterprise functionality was developed by Google as well as by some of the world's leading enterprise companies, including: - Cisco - integrate rich-media conference information from Cisco MeetingPlace Express, a component of Cisco's Unified Communications system. - Cognos - key business intelligence data and performance metrics, such as sales growth, gross margins, employee productivity. - Employease - on-demand HR information including employee, benefits, recruitment and performance information. - NetSuite - customer, product, financials, and business dashboards. - Oracle - access to HR, ERP, CRM, and SCM applications across Oracle E-Business Suite, including personal information, managerial performance, and corporate services. - Salesforce.com - leads, opportunity status, contact and account information - any data in Salesforce or AppExchange applications. - SAS - enterprise business intelligence including key information in data, reports and analysis. This new Google OneBox for Enterprise API, and all of the development interfaces are open to the community of developers, system integrators or ISVs interested in making information more accessible from a search box with the Google Search Appliance. Google is also announcing the Google Enterprise Developer program, a community site where developers can get access to Google Enterprise SDKs, documentation, and post their work for sharing with other customers, partners, and developers. Google partners LTech Consulting and SADA Systems have developed OneBox modules to enable access to employee directory and calendar information from Microsoft Exchange. Google partner BearingPoint has developed OneBox modules that provide access to SAP and Peoplesoft, plus access to employee contact information in LDAP directories. Google partner Persistent Systems has developed a OneBox module for directory and calendar information in Lotus Notes. All of these Google OneBox for Enterprise modules are free for download from the Google Enterprise Developer forum. The new Google Search Appliance includes a wealth of new features designed to improve the security, relevancy, reach and performance of enterprise information, specifically: - Reach: * Google OneBox for Enterprise extensions add searchable content from any business application * Native File System crawler reaches all content in Windows-based file systems (more than 220 file types such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, PDF, etc.) - Security: * Expanded enterprise security and authentication, including LDAP and standard SAML interfaces - Quality: * Enhanced search relevancy through context-sensitive stemming and synonyms, learned from billions of searches on Google.com * New index of external metadata repositories in document and content management systems - Performance: * Up to 25 queries per second on one server (500 percent increase) * Up to 3 million documents on a single server (100 percent increase) These features, including Google OneBox for Enterprise, are available as part of the new Google Search Appliance or as free upgrades to current version 4 customers. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |