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The Enterprise Search Report 2008 looks at... TREX and non-SAP information

"Finally, TREX is much better at importing information from non-SAP applications than at making its indexes available for third-party applications to manipulate. This is a conscious engineering decision on the part of SAP, a company known for its fierce effort to move its customers ever deeper into the SAP environment."

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Google expands enterprise search targets...sort of

20-Apr-2006

Google has announced "Google OneBox," an extension to its search appliance that enables it to retrieve data from various enterprise applications like Cognos and Salesforce.com. Prominently missing are SAP and Microsoft, two big important sources of enterprise content -- who are feverishly working on their own search technologies. OneBox also introduces a developer API for building connectors to other applications, much like you can with the major pure-play search vendors. For enterprise deployments, this makes sense, but each new step to accomodate the heterogeneous collections of enterprise repositories makes Google's product less of a plug-and-play appliance and more like the complex search technologies Google is trying to replace. Enterprise search is hard, folks...

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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