Google’s Search Appliance and ERP: Comfy Together
July 26, 2008
Mike Faust has crafted a very useful, pragmatic overview of the steps in hooking a Google Search Appliance to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. I review quite a few articles, and this one is a keeper. His “Implementing Enterprise Search within Your ERP Application” is a solid roadmap. It includes code samples that are meaty and easy to follow. You can access the full text of his article here.
The most significant take away for me was this point:
The good news is that many application vendors already have OneBox modules available for use with their applications. In any case, using Google Search Appliance’s OneBox functionality can get you on the road to using a single search to access information throughout your enterprise.
This comment makes it clear that Google’s search appliance is gaining muscles and impressing admirers with its robustness. Search vendors can bad mouth the GSA as a toy. But dissing the GOOG may be easier than keeping it out of a client organization. Customers want the GSA, and Google, despite their miserable track record for returning phone calls and getting to meetings on time, is selling a boat load of these gizmos.
Stephen Arnold, July 26, 2008
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