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By some estimates, more than 95% of corporate
data resides outside traditional databases -- on HTML Web
pages, files on disk, or on corporate mail servers. Wouldn't
you like to find your information no matter where it is located
?
Oracle Ultra Search, a new feature of Oracle9i,
provides an "Out-of-the-Box" solution that can find
your information wherever it lives:
- Searches
content regardless of where it is stored
- in Oracle and non-Oracle databases, on Web servers, in
files on disk, on corporate mail servers. Ultra Search uses
a "crawler" to crawl, index and make searchable
your corporate Intranet; the documents stay in their own
repositories and the crawled information is used to build
an index that stays within your firewall in a designated
Oracle9i database.
- Provides
a Web-style search with intuitive search menus
and self-service access. There is no need to code against
hard-to-use low level APIs. For advanced users, however,
APIs are also exposed.
- Organizes
and categorizes your content by extracting valuable
metadata that can be used in portal applications.
- Provides
effective search by returning
more relevant hits.
The screen shot below shows an
example of using Ultra Search to query over multiple repositories:
A corporate email archive, a database (labeled 'Server Technologies').
The query is narrowed by several special 'metadata' fields
that narrow down the search to a piece of information that
occurs in the title, the body of text, the name of the author
and so on.
Customers can benefit from using Ultra
Search in the following applications:
- Portal
search -- Organizations can either can build
their own portal from scratch and 'embed' Ultra Search in
their Web pages or they can use Ultra Search through Oracle's
9iAS Portal product. For organisations, who want to build
their own portal, Ultra Search provides end-user oriented,
web-style search over corporate databases, Web-pages, IMAP
mail servers, or documents in file systems. You can 'embed'
Ultra Search in your corporate Web pages, customizing the
look-and-feel to your requirements.
For customers who decide to use Oracle9iAS Portal, Ultra
Search offers the most powerful search for enterprise portals
developed with the Oracle Enterprise Portal Framework. Ultra
Search includes a search 'Portlet' (a portlet is a contained
area of a portal page that can be rendered in HTMLor any
other browser-capable technology). The Ultra Search Portlet
provides crawling and universal search over all Ultra Search
supported repositories, including the ability to search
the contents of Oracle 9iAS Portal.
- Web
search for Oracle Text -- Ultra Search is built
on Oracle Text, Oracle's text retrieval engine. It provides
Oracle Text customers with Web-style searching capabilities
without the need for any low-level SQL programming.
- Library
or Archive Search -- Many organizations
with digital libraries, information warehouses, or centralized
repositories are seeking to convert their custom search
applications to more general, web-based ones.
- Content
Management Search -- Media organizations creating
or publishing content in a collaborative manner need to
search across content as it moves through multiple repositories
in different stages of its life cycle: From the desktop
file of the author to the stages version in a database.
Use Ultra Search to build a better search and retrieval
system for your documents by integrating Ultra Search with
your own document management process.
We are building a pipeline of customers
that might be interested to install Ultra Search. The ideal
customers we are looking for have the following profile:
- Need for integrating search across multiple
data sources.
- A knowledgeable in-house IT environment
with expertise in Oracle.
- Tolerance for new, cutting edge technologies
- Interest in using new Oracle products to
solve customer problems
- Willingness to participate in reference
activities
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