Most people think search is easy—enter a query, a list of results appears, and you find what you need in the top three results—right? Unfortunately, this has not been the case for the majority of corporate web sites and intranets where poor search is the rule rather than the exception.

When employees cannot locate information necessary for their job, productivity decreases and negatively affects the organization's overall operations. When customers or partners cannot easily find what they are looking for, frustration mounts and may ultimately impact your company's reputation or sales.

While end-users expect companies to offer the same search experience that they are used to on the web, providing it can be a challenge because enterprises face unique hurdles in developing a good search solution for their sites—hurdles that traditional web search engines were never designed for.

Enterprise content differs from web content in that it is not limited to HTML pages or simple documents located on file servers. In addition, the traditional methods of web ranking techniques such as link analysis aren't applicable in determining content relevancy on intranets, extranets or corporate websites.

The enterprise is a complex information environment consisting of content stored in a wide variety of repositories and available in a multitude of formats and languages. Some types of content are structured with descriptive metadata tags, while other types of content are unstructured with poor titles and summaries. Further, access to content may be restricted to specific users and data repositories often have their own security schemas that must be respected by a search engine.

The Vivísimo Velocity Search Platform overcomes these obstacles with the Velocity Search Engine. The search engine is at the heart of our search platform and was designed specifically for the challenges found in an enterprise environment. What does this mean for your business? It means your end-users will have a search experience on your sites that is equal to or even better than that of the web. By providing easier access to more relevant information, your organization will experience greater employee productivity and increased customer satisfaction.

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