What is Enterprise Search?

 

Enterprise search engines are software systems that provide organizations with the ability to securely search across repositories of information in their organization. Almost any search system considered suitable for “enterprise search” offers these core features:
 
  1. The technology to take a document, index the words in that document, and configure that index such that a user can search it
  2. Administrative controls to allow you to index certain documents and not others, and adjust the system, so that the speed of indexing, query processing, relevancy ranking, and myriad other attributes can be “tuned”
  3. Logs to record user behavior; for example, the number of queries, the number of “hits” a document received, the most frequently used search terms, and dozens — if not hundreds — of other measures
  4. A query parser and engine to process user search requests and find relevant results
  5. A default presentation layer, which presents the results processed by the query engine and allows end users to access the information
Beyond these baseline features, the options and variations of features are extensive. Some search engines have add-ons, and in some cases, the add-ons are more complex than the search engine itself.

 


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