Enterprise Search

Enterprise Search and Retrieval

ESR Technologies offers the leading open source Enterprise Search and Retrieval platform - ESR Plasma, which indexes data and documents from a variety of sources such as: file systems, intranets, document management systems, e-mail, and databases, and then presents a consolidated list of relevance ranked resources from these various sources. ESR Plasma also offers integration of structured data as part of the search criteria and when presenting results to the users.

In addition, ESR Plasma offers the following advanced Enterprise Search and Retrieval features:

A wide range of adapters to index content from a variety of repositories, such as databases and content management systems.
Entity extraction that seeks to locate and classify elements in text into predefined categories such as the names of persons, organizations, locations, expressions of times, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc.
Faceted search, a technique for accessing a collection of information represented using a faceted classification, allowing users to explore by filtering available information.
Access control, usually in the form of an Access Control List (ACL), is often required to restrict access to documents based on individual user identities. There are many types of access control mechanisms for different content sources making this a complex task to address comprehensively in an enterprise search environment.
Text Clustering groups the top several hundred search results into topics that are computed on the fly from the search-results descriptions; typically titles, excerpts (snippets), and meta-data. This technique lets users navigate the content by topic rather than by the meta-data that is used in faceting. Clustering compensates for the problem of incompatible meta-data across multiple enterprise repositories, which hinders the usefulness of faceting.
Plasma Command Center provides a state-of-the-art graphical user interface to help search administrators configure, install, and integrate ESR Plasma. In addition, monitoring tools are provided to help the administrator monitor search activities for future search fine-tuning and business analysis.