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IBM Joins Enterprise Search Race

3-Jan-2005

Tags: Enterprise Search, Selecting Technology, OmniFind Enterprise Edition

After working around the fringes of the enterprise search space over the past several years, IBM has come out with a formal offering, the "OmniFind Edition" to its DB2 Information Integrator product. It is essentially an OEM of scandinavian vendor Speed of Mind's database-oriented search tool. On the surface, OmniFind resembles Oracle's approach, particularly in the way that it builds a kind of content warehouse. Note that you may need several different IBM modules for a complete solution (especially if you have multiple information management systems internally), but that's really the point: the product is geared to organizations that have already made a big commitment to Big Blue. Is that the case with your firm? If so, IBM wants to keep your search budget too, but as always, remember that you have many good choices, so always test first before buying...
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