Thunderstone Enhances Parametric Search Appliance

Thunderstone Software LLC has added customizable "sort by" and "group by" capabilities to the Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance. The Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance can index and make searchable large quantities of full-text data with defined attributes (e.g. "manufacturer," "price," "publication date,") as well as targeted web content, file server-based content, application database content and other enterprise-based content in a variety of popular formats. Supporting full-text keyword searches combined with a user-selected "filter" on up to 50 data fields, the Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance allows complex queries utilizing standard SQL commands while also taking advantage of capabilities such as concept-based, fuzzy logic, full-text searching and "bounded box" geographic searching. Administrators and searchers can optimize "findability" by specifying how they want the Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance to sort and/or group its query results. Results can be sorted and grouped by any defined attributes in the data, and any of the available fields can be used to provide navigation links enabling the searcher to browse the results.The DataLoad API allows data to be populated from any source, and a variety of connectors have been developed for many common enterprise data sources. The Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance provides a way to create applications that combine SQL structured queries with full-text retrieval without programming. http://www.thunderstone.com