Enterprise search
Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience.[1]
"Enterprise search" is used to describe the software of search information within an enterprise (though the search function and its results may still be public).
Enterprise search systems index data and documents from a variety of sources such as:
Enterprise search can be seen as a type of vertical search of an enterprise.
Components of an enterprise search system
In an enterprise search system, content goes through various phases from source repository to search results:
Content awareness
Content awareness (or "content collection") is usually either a push or pull model. In the push model, a source system is integrated with the search engine in such a way that it connects to it and pushes new content directly to its APIs. This model is used when real-time indexing is important. In the pull model, the software gathers content from sources using a connector such as a web crawler or a database connector. The connector typically polls the source with certain intervals to look for new, updated or deleted content.[5]
Content processing and analysis
Content from different sources may have many different formats or document types, such as XML, HTML, Office document formats or plain text. The content processing phase processes the incoming documents to plain text using document filters. It is also often necessary to normalize content in various ways to improve
As part of processing and analysis,
Indexing
The resulting text is stored in an
Query processing
Using a web page, the user issues a
Matching
The processed query is then compared to the stored index, and the search system returns results (or "hits") referencing source documents that match. Some systems are able to present the document as it was indexed.
See also
- Collaborative search engine
- Data defined storage
- Enterprise bookmarking
- Enterprise information access
- Faceted search
- Information extraction
- Knowledge management
- List of search engines
- Text mining
- Vertical search
References
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- ^ "What is Enterprise Search?".
- ^ "The New Face of Enterprise Search: Bridging Structured and Unstructured Information" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-28. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ^ "Security Requirements to Enterprise Search: part 1 - New Idea Engineering".
- ^ "Understanding Content Collection and Indexing".