Supports Multiple Formats

Finds the information users seek wherever it resides.

• Offers connectors to repositories such as file servers, MS SharePoint, Documentum, Lotus Notes, Exchange, Legato etc.
• Crawls information in databases such as SQL Sever, MYSQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle and Sybase.
• Supports many file formats including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PDF, Postscript, email archives, XML, HTML, RTF and others.
• Rich media including images, audio and video.

Superior Relevance

Relevancy is based upon a combination of powerful techniques including link analysis, freshness, term proximity and several other criteria. This lets users search in many ways, including full-text, keyword, phrase, metadata field and Boolean operators.

Customized Crawling & Indexing

Supports customizable and visible document crawling and converting thus promoting the concept of a virtual document. Unlike traditional search engines where one document equals one search result, Velocity creates virtual documents that may be comprised of content from many physical sources or documents. This means Velocity can index a PDF down to paragraph level, supply metadata inline with emails, index spreadsheets by rows or columns, combine images in the result display and more.

Metadata Handling

Ability to write formulas using metadata to filter search results (e.g., retrieve results less than X miles from destination Y). Administrators can then group search results by metadata attributes (price, location, order #, weight, etc.).

Advanced Key Matching & Query Routing

Enables administrators to hardcode search results based on flexible rules (words, patterns or characters, metadata, source, etc.) to promote defined key matches at the top of the result page.

Smart Extraction & Summarization

Extracts only the pertinent portions of a web page or document (ignores headers, footers, navigation links, etc.).

Secure Search

Supports existing security structure to crawl and search with authentication to restrict certain collections from unauthorized inclusion in the search results. Authentication can be done automatically through LDAP, Active Directory, Unix FS, NTFS and other document management systems such as SharePoint or Documentum. Restrictions can be enforced at the group, user, document or even content (field) level.

High Performance and High Availability

Administrators can easily replicate instances of a single index across multiple servers, allowing 99.99% up time. Additionally, they can quickly segment an index onto multiple servers for maximum application performance in high usage, data intensive scenarios. Both replication and segmentation of indices are accomplished through a simple point-and-click within the web administrative tool.