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Enterprise Search that Actually Works:

Making both End-Users and IT Departments Happy

About the presenters Marcus Stimler CTO UK

Capgemini

Barry Murphy

Senior Vice President

X1

Enterprise Search that Works

3 Distinct Forms of Enterprise Search

Previous Enterprise Search Efforts

Have Failed

Enterprise Search Failure Point: Lack of User-Friendly Interface

Enterprise Search Failure Point: Conflating Use-Cases

Enterprise Search Failure Point: Does Not Leverage Human Brain

Enterprise Search Failure Point: Requires Massive IT Effort to Scale

Traditional Enterprise Search Fell Victim to Immaturity Cycle

(Source: BA Insight)

Capgemini: Effective Search Beginning with the End-User

Eliminate need to log into multiple systems

• Start with the desktop (email & files), add more systems

(e.g. SharePoint) as needed

Search mechanism that relies on content rather than ratings

Search must be simple & cost-effective

Lesson learned: organization must value knowledge

X1’s Business Productivity Search Product Portfolio

X1 Search 8

X1 Search 8

Virtual Edition

X1 Rapid

Discovery • Fast-as-you-type

desktop search

• Unified access to

emails, files, and

SharePoint

• Instant sorting and

refinement

• Actionable interface

(e.g. reply to emails)

• Separates indexing

from search client

interface

• Work in cached and/or

cached mode

• Index throttling and

other Exchange

controls

• Delegated mailbox

support

• Enables eDiscovery

and enterprise

search

• Quickly search and

filter information in

place

• SDK for fast

connector creation

• Supports Google

Drive, Box, IaaS

Cloud, AWS S3,

webmail, SharePoint,

Microsoft Exchange,

Exchange 365,

network file shares,

PST files, and more.

+ = Business

Productivity

Enterprise search

Recap: What an Effective Enterprise Search Solution Must Offer

Ability to Deploy in Today’s Infrastructures

Simple, Non Resource-Intensive Enterprise Search

Unified, Actionable Interface to Information

About X1

• Founded by Idealab

• Powered by award winning and patented X1 search technology

• Driven by a proven and experienced enterprise software team

• Supporting over 500 enterprise customers and over 400,000 active users

X1 wins test of six third-party search

tools for Windows desktops

Clear Choice Test

Network World

“…Our Clear Choice Test winner

is X1 Professional Client. In every

test scenario it proved superior.”

Contact us

Barry Murphy, X1

bmurphy@x1.com

Marcus Stimler, Capgemini

marcus.stimler@capgemini.com

For more information, visit www.x1.com