IBM OmniFind Search Documentation

January 12, 2011

We fielded a call about the architecture of IBM’s portal and OmniFind search technologies. The new OmniFind may have hit the market, but the IBM online documentation carries the date of January 2008. We still think that anyone integrating various IBM bits and pieces for an Intranet will want to check out the “old” documentation.

Here are the types of information available and a hot link to each set of Web pages. When we last checked (January 11, 2011), the information was online and did not require an IBM account or password to access.

General information.
Integration points. Important information.
Installation procedure. Not exhaustive but useful.
Specific integration of the IBM portal and search systems.
Some additional IBM resources.

Can you install various IBM components without reading the documentation. Sure, but you will have some backtracking to do in order to figure out dependencies. Even though the documents pointed to date from 2008, the approach and method is useful.

Stephen E Arnold, January 12, 2011

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3 Responses to “IBM OmniFind Search Documentation”

Paul O'Hagan on January 12th, 2011 8:39 am

Hi Stephen – I strongly recommend customers working with 9.1 do not reference v8.5 documentation.

The architecture and dependencies have changed, so the information is not valid to draw conclusions from and should not be used for any planning purposes.

The latest documentation for OmniFind Enterprise Edition v9.1 is publically available here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/discover/v9r1m0/index.jsp

Regards,
Paul O’Hagan
Offering Manager – IBM ECM
pohagan@ca.ibm.com
Stephen E. Arnold on January 12th, 2011 6:43 pm

Paul O’Hagan,

Thanks. I wonder why the current documentation did not surface as the first hit in either Google or IBM’s Web site search.

Stephen E Arnold, January 12, 2011
Paul O'Hagan on January 13th, 2011 7:45 am

Hi Stephen,

I think it depends upon your search string.

I don’t normally use Google, however a quick check showed me the top hit for the string “OmniFind 9.1 documentation” was an IBM metapage which links to the above Information Center, as well as other OmniFind Enterprise Edition v9.1 specific information.

As well, the same search string returned the same top hit from IBM.com.

Bear in mind however that with Google, unless you’re in the same country as me (Canada), your results list _will_ vary – so that may not be the top hit.

Regards,
Paul O’Hagan
Offering Manager – IBM ECM
pohagan@ca.ibm.com

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.