IBM Upgrades Enterprise Search Software

IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced a new version, 8.5, of its OmniFind enterprise search software. The OmniFind advancements support the latest Lotus collaboration and social software allowing early adopters of Lotus tools such as Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections to improve productivity, business networking and knowledge sharing. The new version also includes an interface that refines and graphically displays relevant search results; full global language support for Japanese, Chinese and Korean; and support for the latest versions of Red Hat Linux, Windows Server, IBM FileNet Enterprise Content Management software and the IBM Lotus Collaboration Suite. OmniFind Enterprise Edition also serves as a platform for versatile semantic search and content analytics solutions such as entity analytics, sentiment analysis, threat analysis and global name recognition, which are designed to help customers address industry-specific information management challenges. Among the new features of OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.5 is OmniFind Top Results Analysis, which provides a graphical means of analyzing top search results based on metadata. In addition to generating a standard list of search results, results can be displayed graphically, allowing users to drill down further and interactively refine their search to find what they need faster. For example, a query for "enterprise search" will return a list of relevant results as well as a navigation pane with dynamic bar charts where results are organized by category, for example, Web search, Desktop search, eDiscovery, author, language or source. Drop-down menus are provided for dynamically selecting other fields for analysis. In addition to OmniFind Enterprise Edition, IBM offers a full range of search and content discovery software, including OmniFind Yahoo! Edition, OmniFind Discovery Edition, OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition, and OmniFind Analytics Edition. The software is currently available from IBM and IBM Business Partners. http://www.ibm.com/software/