The latest release of the Endeca Information Access Platform takes the Guided Navigation® experience to the next level by powering applications that require exploration and analysis of rich data relationships among multiple types of information. While other search and navigation solutions are limited to evaluating one type of data, such as browsing a product catalog, with Endeca it is possible to create a 360-degree view of products, customers, stores, or other related information to improve the decision making of thousands of employees or millions of customers.
Endeca's patented platform architecture surpasses traditional approaches through adaptivity, an architectural capability that transforms chaotic real-world data into adaptive interfaces. By adapting information to people, not people to information, applications built on Endeca's platform give users the tools to explore, analyze, and understand information with greater flexibility and control than ever before.
Endeca's patented Guided Navigation experience is so effective because it guides people through a discovery process -- revealing both the information available and the questions that can be asked of it. To date, most applications of Guided Navigation are focused on providing a single perspective of information specific to a central entity or object, like a product on an e-commerce site or a customer in a market segmentation application. Guided Navigation is now more expressive and enables users to pivot through different types of data. For example, it is now possible for an engineer at a manufacturing firm to browse to a subset of parts, and then switch views to see all suppliers of those parts along with supplier attributes that can further refine the parts and suppliers lists.
New features and key enhancements to the platform's best-in-class Web-based Management Suite improve business user control for key activities such as Merchandising and Content Spotlighting. Additionally, it is now possible for administrators to deploy and control multiple Endeca applications through a single web-based interface, reducing time-to-market and total cost of ownership.
Endeca's Information Access Platform now provides native 64-bit support. This delivers dramatic scalability improvements, enabling enterprises to build applications that tap millions of complex records spread across disparate data sources for thousands of concurrent users.
Endeca customers can leverage implementation best practices through a set of deployment templates, which provide a complete framework of operational components to speed application development and optimize deployments.
Learn more about the Endeca IAP in the Information Access white paper.