Spruced Up Enterprise Search
Spruced Up Enterprise Search
January 5, 2006: Enterprise search vendors including Recommind and Google, have given their search products a makeover to address changing compliance regulations in the US.
Changing legislation in the US appears to be promoting a new wave of updated search tools with the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) driving vendors in the search space to spruce up their product lines. The FRCP deadline came into effect on the 1st December 2006 and means that litigations can now order the discover of all forms of electronic documents such as email, instant messages and VoIP.
Browning Marean, partner at DLA Piper in the US, says the ability to search and preserve potentially discoverable documents is a critical business function for enterprises. “Recent revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure specifically address Electronically Stored Information (ESI), what it is an how it must be produced during litigation,” says Marean.
“Before large enterprises can even attempt to produce such information, however, they must identity and preserve it, which can be extremely difficult and time-consuming under the best of circumstances.”
To meet changing enterprise needs under FRCP, search vendor Recommind has announced the next generation of its MindServer platform. Marketing the product on its eDiscovery functionality, Recommind claims that their latest platform will allow enterprises to quickly locate electronically stored information.
Recommind says their MindServer 5.0 will provide organisations with a strong solution for overcoming eDiscovery problems by providing increased indexing performance, customised connectors and higher scalability that supports search parameters across terabytes of information.
Meanwhile Google is also looking to jump in on the changing needs of business search. Google has this week announced free updates to the Google Search Appliance which will enable search priority for different document formats. Google has also added a ‘results hit clustering’ feature where the Appliance groups results into topics.