X1 Search 8 Moves to Unified Search
June 30, 2014
With the move to more data across a wider variety of repositories (SharePoint, OneDrive, Dropbox, and more) the need to search across platforms is becoming more urgent. X1’s search model has responded to the need by introducing X1 Search 8. Details are covered in the CollabShow article, “X1 Search 8—Unified Search for SharePoint, Desktop, Mail and More…”
The article begins:
“X1 has been analyzing the needs of the information worker and consumer in this space for over a decade. With their analyses, they have identified the need for fast retrieval and an intuitive, simple interface and powerful filtering across all of the repositories that a user uses and values. When you’re searching for information, you don’t want to have to go to a dozen different places across a variety of user interfaces. You’re likely to give up and end up spending hours duplicating effort or emailing someone else and wasting their time because you couldn’t find the email or document you were looking for and that you know you’ve seen somewhere.”
X1 is using familiar language – unified search, everything search, etc. And while it is perhaps trendy, it is not exactly original. The term “unified” is also used by Attivio, BA Insight, and Sinequa. Keep an eye out to see whether this trend turns into the norm in search. It stands to reason that all enterprise search has to be unified because of the natural direction of the technology. Time will tell.
Emily Rae Aldridge, June 30, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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“Unified Search,:” “Federated Search,” “meta-search,” et al actually got it’s start with Autonomy and their dropped client-Internet search program years ago. It was called Kinjen (I think….can’t remember exactly.) It was slow with dial-up back in the 1990s, but they dropped support for the program which I never understood.
It was especially good for those doing research as both their notes on their computer or server, and anything available on the Internet could be searched, bringing together much of what a researcher or writer would need.