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DATA SHEET
iFinder ENTERPRISE SEARCH
iFinder - the Enterprise Search solution for company-wide information search,
information logistics and text mining.
CUSTOMER QUOTE
„IntraFind stands for high quality
technological products, reliability
and customer focus.“
Thomas Müller
Head of trade marketing, Germany
AUDI AG
KEY BENEFITS
• Fully automated setup allows
for new installation within 15
minutes
• Preview option of all files
without the application required
to be installed on the client
• High saving of costs and time
per employee
iFinder – During the past few years,
data growth and its management
have played a dominating role for
companies. However, with the data
growth there are new additional
challenges for companies: On the
one hand, the massive increase
of information to be processed
and on the other, the availability
of the relevant information for
employees. In order to make
decisions oriented towards the
future and business, companies
must count on historic information.
This information is often classified
by companies as critical and noncritical information and evaluated
as such. Another challenge is to
identify and compile company
relevant information in order to
establish a targeted evaluation
thereafter.
The Enterprise Search solution iFinder
indexes structured and unstructured
contents from company-wide data
sources and is therefore the central
point for searching and finding relevant
information.
The user-friendly interface and the
well-arranged presentation support
the search request intelligently. The
preview function allows the users to
have a view of the document even
without having the corresponding
application installed on their computer.
The time saved for employees through
the usage of the Enterprise Search
solution iFinder is enormous.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
iFinder is a modularly expandable
solution. The user is supported
intelligently in the search and find
process. The iFinder basic module
includes a user-friendly and highperformance full text search with
auto-complete of the search query,
typo correction, did-you-mean
suggestions, hit-highlighting, duplicate
recognition and the full spectrum of the
Boolean search. Through, for example,
file system indexing, connectors to
databases and email systems and
the crawler, all available data sources
are connected. Rights information
from existing authentication systems
is considered in order to allow for a
personalized search in the company
environment.
HIGHLIGHTs iFinder 4.7
• The fully automated setup
allows for new installations of
iFinder 4.7 within 15 minutes, it
includes the installation of missing
system components (e.g. JAVA,
Apache Tomcat, SQL Server) and
the possibility to build an index
and to start the indexing during
the installation itself.
• Facelift of the search GUI:
Optimization of the search
interface in order to increase userfriendliness -> clear arrangement
of search options (e.g. filter
options through the usage of the
ConteXtors) and improvement
of the hit list display (e.g. tabular
display)
SPECTRUM OF PERFORMANCE
OF THE iFinder BASIC PACKAGE
• Improved preview through
color highlighting of the results
in the individual hit documents
contributes to the clarity for
the user and makes it easier to
navigate to the individual results
• Advanced sorting of the results
(„freshness ranking“): Starting
with iFinder Version 4.7, the
administrator can smoothly set
the weightage of the relevance
and date and thereby adjust the
presentation of the hit list to the
needs of the user.
size of the files to be indexed per
file type, estimated indexing time)
• Index management:
Administration interface for the
creation of new indexes or to
change the configuration of
existing indexes (specification of
the data source, indexing of user
rights, etc.) or for terminating
individual indexing runs (time,
frequency)
• Optimized analyzers:
Normalization of umlauts, diacritic
marks and hyphenation tokens
• Index statistics tool: Possibility
for administrators to do an
analysis of the files to be indexed
before indexing (number / total
• Auto-complete of the search query
with phrase recognition under
inclusion of frequent user queries,
search as you type
• People Search: Display of contact
data of employees from the
company‘s internal social media
platforms (e.g. telephone numbers,
location information or email
addresses)
• Best Bets with expanded
configuration options
• Advanced search options (persistent)
e.g. to enrich the search query
through synonyms from a standard
thesaurus; search options selected
by the user remain also for future
search sessions;
• „Did you mean. . . ?“ correction
suggestions
•F
ilter: Possibility to filter duplicates
or variants (e.g. contextually similar
documents) or to group search
results according to metadata (e.g.
author, file type) -> Guided search /
facet search
•P
review & Thumbnails: By clicking on
the thumbnail next to the document
title, you can open a preview image
of the original document - users
SCOPE
Search-Summit
- for a better overview of the most
important results
• Division into physical and logical
index architectures
• Serendipity: The possibility for the
users to discover new search results
that could be relevant for them
• Secure Search: Saving all ACLinformation in the index
• Concept Search: Search results
are grouped according to logical
concepts in order to improve
the search and allow for a better
overview
• Full Boolean search spectrum: Front
and end truncating, wildcards *, ?;
Proximity Search, NEAR
• Variety of connectors: Windows
and Unix file systems, Exchange,
Notes, SharePoint, SAP, DMS,
QUERY
Your Search:
Show / hide Options
Results: 1 - 5 of 5 in 0,12 sec
1
2
Author
Filetype
Application
3
OntologyNet
Company
Theme
4
Subject
Manager
5
Category
Language
Image: iFinder search interface
have the possibility to page through
the entire document even without
having the corresponding application
installed on their computer
•K
nowledge Map with Instant Search:
Clicking in the Knowledge Map,
activates an automatic updating of
the hit list and a dynamic filtering
• Stable, high-performance and
scalable full text search, distributed
indexing and search-server instances
for the separation of index and
search on different servers. Highperformance, incremental index
update.
archival and ECM systems, Crawler,
JDBC Connector for database
applications
• Interface for connecting existing
rights systems, NTLM authentication
• Administration GUI with
comprehensive reporting
• Powerful metadata indexing
• Smart filtering of the hits according
to file system filing structures (for file
system search)
• Pattern Matcher: Recognition and
extraction of defined information
from unstructured texts for
automatic indexing and metadata
creation (e.g. invoice numbers,
product descriptions, contract
metadata)
• Relevance tuning
• Usage of the API for the creation
of own applications possible - API
available in JAVA and .NET
• Support of the OpenSearch
Standard (Windows 7 integration
possible)
• Web services
• The synonym thesaurus
complements the range of offers:
Suitable synonyms are suggested to
the users depending on their search
query in order to expand their search
query with a click. The synonyms
can be expanded easily specific to
the customer.
• Integration of the software in existing
IT infrastructures
ENTERPRISE SEARCH 2.0 - The
iFinder additional modules for an
optimal search result
of the word. We offer the high quality
linguistics not only for German, but
also for English, Spanish, French and
Italian.
top terms of the hit document are
determined and a new search is
started with these weighted terms.
The analysis occurs on a contextual
level. The effect here is that the
located documents do not necessarily
have to contain your original search
term, but contextually they cover your
questions superbly.
The additional module linguistic text
analysis (LISA) contains the basic
form creation and decomposition of
compound words. The user no longer
has to worry about plural forms (book
-> books) or inflected word forms
(bought back -> buy back) and will
reliably find the searched term as a
word component of any compound
term.
The significant advantage: The user
does not overlook any relevant hits.
Automatic generation of the basic
form and decomposition of compound
words are also part of this solution.
The user looks for „houses“ and finds
documents that also contain „house“
and „housed“ as well as, for example,
“house” as a component of the word
regardless of whether it is found at the
beginning, in the middle or at the end
There are currently 15 more languages
available for high quality morphological
analysis. IntraFind even offers linguistic
add-on solutions for Chinese or
Arabic.
Similarity search (SimFinder
module) describes the search for
contextually similar documents. The
user receives hits for a search query
and one of the hit documents has a
high relevance for him/her.
With the similarity search, it is possible
to find contextually similar documents,
which were possibly filed in different
content databases.
A link to „similar documents“ is shown
against every single hit, in order
to execute the similarity search. In
the similarity search, the significant
Semantic-associative search for a
quick, intuitive narrowing down of the
hit list and for the explorative search:
Display of contextually correlated and
additional search terms - appropriate
to the search query - for deeper and
more detailed searches.
Search results are generated „on
the fly“, depending on the search
term and the basic content. The
search query can be narrowed down
„intuitively“ in this way. The user has
the possibility to get to a manageable
number of hits from a few thousand
hits.
Text-Clustering
The hit list is not only displayed
as a „one dimensional“ list, but
also fully automatically grouped
into hierarchically and contextually
connected document clusters.
Example: The search for „Mars“
delivers the main clusters „Planet“ and
„Candy bar“. Through the individual
clusters, the user can further narrow
down the search query and thus only
show hits where it deals with the
planet Mars, for example.
Image: Knowledge Map
Knowledge Map
Current studies on the usage of
search engines and evaluations of
user data from the search engine
providers show that most users enter
a maximum of two terms to start their
search. If you ask the users about their
satisfaction, such search queries rarely
lead immediately to the desired search
result. With IntraFind Knowledge
Map, each user receives a visually
well comprehensible answer to „his/
her query“ within a few mouse clicks.
Here it is not necessary to type one
or more search terms - alternatively
through the selection of filters based
on the document information hit lists
can be generated in seconds and be
displayed to the searcher in a wellarranged manner.
Profit from the intelligent
IntraFind solutions as well!
As the producer of the
iFinder Enterprise Search
solution, we guarantee the
highest quality and thus,
a distinct added value for
companies. Experts develop
our products, which fulfill
the highest demands. We
react quickly and flexibly to
your challenges - and have
solutions ready for you.
COMPANY PROFILE
• IntraFind was founded in 2000 and currently has 30 employees.
• Well-founded know-how and the focus on the special topic of searching distinguish the IntraFind team of experts.
• IntraFind has more than 10 years of experience in the planning and execution of search & retrieval projects.
•T
he high quality and standardized product portfolio from IntraFind Software AG includes software products for high-performance and scalable searches, automatic text classification and named entity recognition on the basis of Lucene and Solr.
• The Enterprise Search product iFinder includes a user-friendly and powerful full text search, which can be expanded with
modules for linguistics, similarity search, semantic search, thesaurus or taxonomy based search, entity recognition, text
clustering, text classification and knowledge maps.
IntraFind Software AG
Landsberger Straße 368
80687 Munich
Tel: +49 (89) 309 0446-0
www.intrafind.com
IntraFind develops products for the
efficient searching, finding and analyzing
of unstructured, semi-structured and
structured information under consideration
of all available data sources of a company.
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