I suggest that if you are interested in intelligent Enterprise search that you listen to Steve Akers being interviewed by BeyeNetworks – it is a long session but well worth the time.
Steve discusses a number of things including the challenges faced by Enterprises, how Digital Reef solves these problems and some customer use cases. There were also two slides that I thought was a great overview of the Digital Reef solution:
Discover
- Automatically identify and index all unstructured data
- Provide tools to find and understand the data:
- Boolean searches (freeform, fuzzy, metadata, phrase, proximity)
- Similarity searches using example files
- Email thread reconstruction
- Exact and near duplicate identification
- Pattern expression recognition
- Organize the data using automatic classification
Manage
- Transform files into common file types
- Collect and move data
- Manage data retention policies
Designed for Scale and Security
- Grid-based, distributed architecture provides performance and resiliency
- Multi-tenant, role-based security model
- Easily deployed and maintained
- Indexes and prepares the full content and metadata of up to 10TBs of data in 24 hours with a standard configuration
