Inter Gator: Federated Search from Germany
August 14, 2013
Short honk: We learned about Industrie Consulting. At this link, the inter:gator enterprise search system is explained briefly. What are the “unique” propositions for this search system? The Web page mentions in German (English translation below):
- A system which searches “all” information. (Isn’t this a categorical affirmative?)
- Access controls
- Semantic functions
- A navigator results viewer (hyperbolic map)
- A dashboard. Widgets display search results in different forms on the dashboard.
- “Attractive” price.
The company opened its doors about a decade ago it appears. The system appears to be related to TextDog if the Wikipedia entry is accurate. The system may be based on Lucene. You can download white papers and marketing materials which explain the system. Point your browser to a page with a SharePoint-centric url: http://goo.gl/87ULSW
You may want to brush up on your German. I did not spot any English language information on the firm’s Web site. When you search for information about the company, be aware that the spelling “inter:gator” can produce results with the string in quotes changed to “integrator.” The use of special characters and seemingly innocuous misspellings can have an impact on the relevance of the results of the query.
Stephen E Arnold, August 14, 2013
Sponsored by Xenky
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Dear Mr. Arnold,
thanks for your interests in our Enterprise Search product inter:gator. The information you found about our product is actually only a very brief abstract on a partners website, which is focused on German speaking markets. Please find our English website at http://www.intergator.de/index.shtml.en. There you among others find these unique features of inter:gator:
The inter:gator Dashboard gives personalized access to several pieces of (mostly indexed) information in parallel, without having to search. The Dashboard is highly customizable, most customers use the inter:gator Dashboard as personalizable Intranet-Homepage for all employees. Please have a look at http://www.intergator.de/product/unique-features/folge1-dashboard.shtml.en for details.
With the inter:gator Navigator you can traverse and browse all indexed information using different criteria, for example taxonomies or file hierarchies. Customers are using the Navigator mainly for research-centric tasks. Please have a look at http://www.intergator.de/product/enterprise-search/navigator/index.shtml.en for details.
The inter:gator Documentation Reader can generate PDF previews of more than 500 file formats directly in the browser, without the need of plugins. Previews can combine or split results documents with any desired granularity, so for example you can search for single pages. Matching texts are highlighted and marked on the browsers scrollbar. Users can also act with the previews directly, for example by mailing it or saving it. Customers base internal document-centric processes like fax reception or quality assurance on inter:gator Documentation Reader. Please have a look at http://www.intergator.de/product/enterprise-search/documentation-reader/index.shtml.en for details.
inter:gator comes with an innovative tagging mechanism: Documents can be enriched with words or phrases, which can be searched by other users immediately. Tags can be used to build folksonomies or to sort documents into controlled taxonomies (only editors can give new tags). There are tags with special functionality, for example “top” and “flop” which affect ranking. Some Customers are using inter:gator Tags to group documents into virtual files or dossiers. Please have a look at http://www.intergator.de/produkt/alleinstellungsmerkmale/folge2-socialsearch.shtml.de for details.
As every Enterprise Search solution the value depends on the connectivity to data sources. Inter:gator comes with more than 30 connectors Out-of-the-Box including Lotus Notes, MS SharePoint 2013, MS Exchange, several CMS, SAP, which are part of the product and therefore. All connectors are our property thus fully supported and our customers are independent from other vendors. Of course we ship a very powerful connector framework for proprietary data.
Unfortunately the screenshots in the pages above are made in German. Thus we recommend you the following further English information about our product: Detailed USPs with English screens, a paper “short introduction to inter:gator” and an account on our inter:gator Demo Center, which we would be pleased to send you. Also I want to invite your next Webinar in English: http://www.intergator.de/support/webinars/#insight-intergator-enterprise-search.
Kind regards
Marcel Hofmann