Sitecore-specific search from Coveo

Coveo has introduced a significant new addition to its growing solutions portfolio: Coveo for Sitecore – Advanced Search Edition, which Coveo explains delivers search, navigation, personalized recommendations, connectivity and relevance tuning capabilities.

E-commerce sites can accelerate sales and build customer loyalty by integrating product catalogs and other relevant information from external systems, thus allowing visitors to discover, sort and explore product offerings, according to Coveo. The new solution is seamlessly integrated with Sitecore Customer Engagement Platform 7, built exclusively on .Net technologies and fully embedded within Sitecore’s Search Provider framework. Out of the box, marketers can configure and manage Coveo Search & Relevance Technology from within familiar Page & Content Editors.

Coveo highlights the following features and capabilities of its new offering:

• a robust search experience for users, including auto-completion, search-as-you-type, phonetic matching and regular expression search;
• flexible faceted navigation, permitting marketers to quickly build brand-centric user interfaces and rich search and product discovery experiences;
• contextual relevance, allowing marketing teams to manage ranking and results in order to ensure visitors find content and products relevant to them based upon their unique context;
• automated content recommendations, permitting visitors to search and filter the information or product they are looking for, as well as to be automatically shown relevant resources and offerings based upon their unique context;
• broad searchable content resources, including from multiple social sites, communities, catalogs, databases, knowledgebases and an expansive library of secure connectors;
• ready-to-deploy iOS and Android templates, as well as a JavaScript and HTML 5 UI framework;
• out-of-the-box support for dozens of languages;
• delivery of secure results in near real time, featuring early binding security to provide more personally relevant content faster;
• text analytics that allow administrators to configure workflows that create new metadata based on content analysis, rules and context extraction; and
• enterprise-grade support.