Ardentia Search
March 15, 2009
Note: A reader asserts that Ardentia is now Connexica. We’re checking.
Ardentia Search here is a company that provides “information access solutions”. The company offers a search solution for customer relationship management and direct marketing. The firm asserts that its software “has bridged the gap between BI [business intelligence] and enterprise search. In short, the company has made it possible to drive down a single digital highway instead of contending with multiple products from different vendors.
The company has entered into a global resellers agreement with Clinical Solutions. The resale agreement provides exclusivity for Clinical Solutions to resell NetSearch for healthcare in selected geographic markets.
According to the company, “NetSearch is a high speed information enquiry and visualization solution. It combines the speed of the latest search engine technology with the ease of use of an OLAP-style enquiry interface.”
The company’s search system is based on its NetSearch application. NetSearch is able to index and provide access to information in databases, content management systems, electronic mail, the Internet, and on file systems. The process is search, explore, and obtain results. The company says that the system can reduce traditional business intelligence system costs by up to 60 percent over 36 months.
Among the features the system offers are:
- Search and analyse structured and unstructured data.
- Combines external content with corporate information assets.
- Full textual searching including wild cards and approximate matching.
- Venn diagrams for data segmentation.
- Lotus Domino plug-in for federated searching.
- Microsoft Excel plug-in for advanced analytics.
To connect to content, Ardentia hooks into databases via JDBC or ODBC interfaces. Data extraction can be scheduled. The system allows the licensee to specify that changes (deltas) be extracted if identify by a data time stamp. The data extractions can be throttled to reduce the impact on online systems.
Ardentia asserts, “This provides end users with a fast, intelligent ad hoc enquiry tool that enables them to take control of the vast amounts of information currently locked away in networked and unconnected data sources.”
The company offers a search and data management solution for content residing on the SugarCRM system.
You can sign up for an online demonstration here. Information about the company’s OEM program is available here.
I did not see a search “box” on the company’s Web site. One can search the Ardentia Web site via Google using this syntax from a Google search box: site:www.ardentiasearch.com [your query]. For a search vendor, I found the omission of a search tool somewhat odd, but maybe I overlooked the link to the search function.
Stephen Arnold, March 15, 2009
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Stephen – ArdentiaSearch has just changed its name to Connexica.
I don’t think that the company truly understands enterprise search, in that (12 monhs ago, at any rate) the system had no internal access controls, and the search was string literal with no stemming etc.
My experience with potential customers was that the initial impressions NetSearch gave were excellent, but the visualisation was very much “so what?” . It’s noticeable how few customers’ names are on the website, and there are fewer with no personal connections to ArdentiaSearch staff.
Martin Griffies,
Thanks for the information. I continue to follow my editorial policy on the About page; that is, I recycle information from my files. I saw a demo in late 2008 and I don’t recall hearing about a new name.
Stephen Arnold, March 15, 2009
Greeting.
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To make sure you have an accurate picture of Connexica for your readers. Yes, Ardentia Search have changed their name to Connexica, this was always a long term plan and we executed on it in the first week of this month. Second we are NOT and never have been a Search product per se. We are a BI tool that utlilises search engine technology in order to provide end users super fast access to (if necessary very large volumes of data) for ad hoc queries and static reports. Available with the product are extensive visualisation facilities (all the normal dashboard stuff plus mapping and including, uniquely, Venn diagrams. Because we use search engine technology we also able to index and search unstructured data (e.g. documents), but this has never been the primary focus of the product.
Comments made above are two years out of date and the product has moved on a long way in that period.
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