Dumbing Down Enterprise Search To Make It More Powerful
Fulbright’s director of development, Paul Revilla, explains: "We want to leverage the firm’s collective experience. The goal is for Fulbright’s attorneys to be able to share knowledge regardless of their location, area of practice or expertise."
Full text searching regardless of repository. "Our DMS search tool didn’t search all of our information repositories and couldn’t sort results based upon relevancy," says Revilla. The solution of choice needed to be able to access and process all types of information based upon content and context, and not constrict the user to complicated Boolean search operators.
Revilla established three sets of criteria for selecting a full-text search solution. First, it had to be extensible, that is, it had to be able to allow for additional features in the future. It also had to be easy to administer. Finally, Revilla wanted a strong relationship with the vendor. After an extensive review process, including what Revilla describes as a head to head "shootout" between Brainware and another vendor’s solution, Fulbright selected Globalbrain.
Proof of concept put to the test. Revilla’s first impressions were confirmed when Fulbright implemented the split test between Globalbrain and a competing vendor to evaluate how each search engine worked within a real-world setting. The test included 1.2 million documents consisting of 25 gigabytes of text. According to Revilla, Brainware’s proof of concept (POC) demonstrated that Globalbrain simply "did it better." Revilla reported that the implementation of Globalbrain in their test environment was significantly smoother than the competing solution.
Twice the relevant data returned. Revilla comments, "Globalbrain has been extremely stable," noting, "it returns twice the relevant data than the DMS search tool." For instance, researchers can enter an entire paragraph of a document and the software will return all related documents based upon its content. According to Revilla, "Globalbrain can index anything we want it to."
The Globalbrain Search Engine
More than a decade ago, a group of scientists with advanced degrees in physics, mathematics and chaos theory set their sights on the mountains of unstructured data they saw being produced and reproduced by enterprises around the world. Convinced there had to be a better way to access full document text than through keyword and metadata indexes, they invented the Brainware Engine. The Globalbrain search engine was born.
Globalbrain Personal and Enterprise Editions support more than 250 file formats and locate information no matter where it’s hidden—your PC, enterprise databases, file servers, the Internet, etc. Through performance and process optimizations, Globalbrain scales from personal laptop configurations to global enterprises, allowing you to search millions of documents and terabytes of data.
Patented Brainware technology. Globalbrain is powered by the Brainware Engine, a US- and European-patented classification and search technology delivering unmatched speed and accuracy to data capture and retrieval tasks.
Powerful, yet easy to use. Globalbrain enables users to quickly and easily search for information using simple, natural language queries comprised of sentences, paragraphs or even entire documents of text rather than Boolean logic or complicated taxonomies.
Easily embeds in third-party applications. Although the application can be run out of the box with its own Web interface, there are Java, COM, SOAP and .NET APIs available so that the search and classification functionality of Globalbrain can be added to existing applications or Web portals.
Language independence. Globalbrain matches indexed n-grams rather than words, therefore it delivers accurate results regardless of the language in which documents are written.
Ease of administration. Globalbrain can be implemented in a matter of days. Updates (i.e., document additions, deletions and alterations) are easily accommodated without having to re-index data.
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Brainware, Inc. is an innovative provider of enterprise search and intelligent data capture solutions that help Global 2000 companies retrieve data from across the enterprise, eliminate costly manual data entry and rapidly process large volumes of documents. Headquartered in Ashburn, VA, Brainware maintains global sales and support operations through its North American, U.K. and European offices. For more information, please visit
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