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Google and Mediasurface to Bring Improved Search Capability to the Enterprise
Mediasurface and Google have signed a distribution agreement in which Mediasurface will bundle the Google Search Appliance with Morello, its award winning web content management system enabling the two organisations to provide best of breed web content management and corporate-strength search facilities in one offering.
As part of the agreement, an interface between Morello and the Google Search Appliance has been developed; enabling Morello to use the Google Search Appliance to deliver highly relevant search results.
The Google Search Appliance delivers similar results for enterprise information that Google.com achieves for information on the internet. As an integrated hardware and software product, it searches content and other data stored on a company's web servers, file servers, content and document management systems, relational databases and business applications and makes it instantly available from a single familiar search box.
Whilst Morello delivered sites have always been search engine friendly the plug-in for the Google Search Appliance has a number of additional advantages for joint customers:
Mediasurface can now deliver the same, highly familiar Google search experience while searching content managed by Morello on public websites and intranets;
The security model within Morello is fully maintained; a search will only retrieve and display content relevant to the access privileges of the user;
The integration between Morello and Google Search Appliance ensures that a richer set of content is delivered than would have been available previously by adding in metadata such as the original content author, the date the content was first published, keywords, and so on, which is held separately within the CMS;
The Morello content author can create "keymatch" terms that relate to an item of content and enabling certain content to appear at the top of a search result;
Morello and the Google Search Appliance can now group and manage information for specific audiences so if, for example, someone searches for technical data on a product, they can select the technical collection and avoid the brochures;
Benefits of content management projects can be realized more quickly as content not yet in Morello can be indexed, ranked and delivered alongside the Morello managed content in a consistent way while the content is being migrated to the new Morello content management system.
Robert Whiteside of the Google Enterprise division commented, "The technical and cultural fit between our two organizations is highly compatible. Both Google and Mediasurface have built their reputation on providing an easy to use, intuitive interface for highly sophisticated technology. We see a great opportunity to work with Mediasurface.”
Lawrence Flynn, CEO of Mediasurface said, "Our relationship with Google will help us deliver even more value to our users. We already have a number of joint customers and this formal agreement was a natural progression of that relationship." 11.01.2007, sourcewire
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