Coveo Launches Free Entry-Level Enterprise Search Solution

Coveo announced the launch of a free, entry-level enterprise search solution, Coveo Expresso Beta. Coveo’s new solution allows enterprise information access in the hands of employees everywhere, at no cost, for up to 50 users, 1M desktop files and email items and 100,000 Intranet documents. The free download features: Cross-enterprise Email Search, for 50 email accounts, including PST files and attachments, on desktops and in servers for up to 1 million total items; Coveo Outlook Sidebar, an enterprise search Outlook plug-in, which provides features such as conversation folding, related conversations, related people, related attachments, the ability to search any indexed content without leaving Outlook, Coveo Desktop Floating Searchbar, to enable guided searches without leaving the program in which the user is working; Enterprise Desktop Search, including always-on indexing for 50 PCs/laptops; Mobile access via BlackBerries for 50 users. Coveo Expresso is built on the Coveo Enterprise Search 6.0 platform, and includes an Admin Portal that allows the IT administrator to centrally provision users. The Coveo Expresso Beta starter package is provisioned for 50 users and up to 1 million desktop files and email items as well as 100,000 documents in SharePoint and File shares. Licenses can be expanded at minimal cost to as many as 250 users, 5 million desktop files and email items, and 1 million SharePoint and Fileshare documents, by typing a new access code. Administrators add new email accounts and SharePoint or file share documents within the intuitive administrative interface. Common content sources compatible with Expresso: Symantec Enterprise Vault, Quest Archive Manager and Lotus Notes for email and email archives, Salesforce.com and Siebel for CRM, OpenText or Documentum for document management, Confluence and Jive wikis, databases and other enterprise systems content, and even voice indexes within multimedia files. Other features of the Coveo Expresso Beta are licenses for 50,000 SharePoint files and 50 Coveo Internet Access Users. www.coveo.com