Introduction

Information is your most valuable resource, yet even as the amount of enterprise data continues to explode, your customers and employees often struggle to make the best-informed decisions because they can’t get at the information they need and make use of it. However, despite investments in traditional search and a range of other systems, IT still is challenged to provide applications that help users find, analyze, and understand information to make the best decisions--and this adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars in increased costs and foregone revenue.

Endeca has pioneered new software that solves this problem and helps you unlock the full potential of your information. Our search applications are powered by Endeca’s Information Access Platform™, a major enterprise search innovation on an advanced architecture for building high-ROI applications that let any user find any kind of data any way they need it. Encompassing many analytic features common in business intelligence, these applications return much more than just a list of query results, solving specific business problems with a unique combination of features:

• Advanced query capabilities: Endeca’s industry-leading Guided Navigation™ User Experience provides dynamic summaries of all available data that guide any user through asking and answering any question, relieving both your end user and application developer from needing to fully understand the underlying data in order to query it.
• Flexible data model: At the core, a patented engine built on a semi-structured database provides you with unprecedented ease in exploring data in all its forms and with a varied set of attributes, from structured data in ERP, PLM, CMS, and relational databases to XML to unstructured documents such as emails .pdfs, and spreadsheets. Any changes to the underlying data sources or structures are automatically propagated into the user interface with no coding or data modeling required.
• Software Development Kit for search applications: Capabilities including Page Builder make it easy for you to build your own tailored search applications that offer Guided Navigation across all of your existing data—and to do so at dramatically lower TCO, quicker time-to-value and lower risk vs other approaches. In addition, standards-based SOA interfaces let you deliver search applications as a service to upstream or downstream business processes.

We invite you to discover why more than 250 million people around the world access information via Endeca search applications, and why companies like Boeing, IBM, John Deere, and Walmart in every major industry—as well as top analysts--recognize Endeca as the clear leader in solutions that help you fully harness the power of information.

Endeca is the answer to managing your new enterprise information needs. Contact us and find out why.