The Jahia Bundle

April 22, 2010

A happy quack to the reader who sent me a link to Jahia.com. The company bills itself as a vendor of “Web content integration software.” What interested me was Jahia’s inclusion of search in its enterprise Intranet suite. This system includes content and document management functions and the Jahia “united content hub”. The idea is that an organization gets a method for organization various types of content regardless of its source.

Content and document management are not of particular interest to me. The suite’s search function looks interesting. According to the company, the system delivers such features as:

Advanced search
Faceted search
Dynamic navigation.

One additional feature is the firm’s use of Lucene/Solr open source technology. The Jahia approach makes extending the system possible. Results sets can be customized. A variety of filtering methods are available. The company said:

Supporting open standards always has always been one of the core mission statements for the Jahia software. So it made a lot of sense to implement the OpenSearch API. OpenSearch can be used either from a federated search or in order to facilitate access to the local search index. In the former case, Jahia can simultaneously request several distant and OpenSearch compliant indexes from the same user query and display a multi-source aggregated view of the results. In the latter scenario Jahia displays its own local search index through the OpenSearch API. End users can then, for example query their intranet directly from within the search form present in their browser, without first having to access this Web site.

System administrators can use the Jahia result sets in another third-party federated search hub.

The firm’s pricing ranges from about $7,500 per year for cloud-based service delivered via Amazon’s Web services to on premises license fees that are in the $27,000 per connector. (A connector allows the Jahia system to access content in another system.)

To sum up, Jahia is important for two reasons.

First, the system uses open source search technology. Second, the search function is embedded in a broader suite of products.

Stephen E Arnold, April 22, 2010

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Enterprise, News, Open source, Search, Technology

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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.