Secure, simultaneous, real-time search across the enterprise is now available from within SharePoint.

April 2009

Many organisations have information stored within SharePoint.  But SharePoint's search capabilities are limited, even within the SharePoint repository.  And most organisations store data in other places also: Outlook email, databases, HR records, financial applications, CRM, ERP and more.

It can be challenging to retrieve accurate and up-to-date information across multiple repositories and diverse data formats.  Yet regulatory compliance, corporate governance and even informed decision-making often require this information to be available on demand.  Many organisations must therefore search all their data sources individually and manually collect, compare and de-duplicate the results.

Alistair Handyside, CEO, Simplexo, noted: "For federated search even Microsoft recommends their FAST ESP offering rather than SharePoint.  But it can be costly, time consuming and resource intensive to set up.  You need an additional client license for each employee who uses it.  And all content requires indexing, even structured content that already maintains its own index.  So even when you find information it's only as up-to-date as the last time it was indexed."

Unsurprisingly, organisations that find this approach too daunting or unreliable have had to continue their multiple searches of SharePoint content, Outlook email and other data sources.  

Now, Simplexo has integrated single-click enterprise search with SharePoint.  The Simplexo solution works within SharePoint, alongside SharePoint, and on SharePoint data, yet simultaneously searches all other enterprise data sources in real time and delivers a single set of de-duplicated results.

If you already have SharePoint optimised for search, Simplexo can work with the SharePoint index to combine a search of your SharePoint content with a search across all your other enterprise data sources.

If not, Simplexo will index your SharePoint files and other unstructured content in the background during processor idle time, continually and automatically including content additions, changes, and deletions.  For structured data sources such as databases and applications, Simplexo's straightforward query builders, mapping tools and application connectors enable native search with no additional indexing or data reorganisation.   

From one single click within SharePoint, Simplexo then simultaneously queries all data sources, retrieves live, accurate, up-to-date information in real time from across your enterprise, and delivers de-duplicated results to your desktop.  

Simplexo search solutions are ideal for organisations responding to compliance or corporate governance issues, or making decisions that require rapid and accurate access to multiple enterprise information sources.

Simplexo Enterprise summary

• Saves time: eliminates individual searches on multiple data sources
• Improves accuracy: returns live, up-to-date information in real time
• Maintains security: designed to MoD security levels (AES 256)
• Very simple to use: single-click searching
• Platform agnostic for ease of deployment

About Simplexo Ltd

Simplexo Ltd is focused on delivering a new experience in enterprise search and is founded on a solid history in Electronic Document Management and Retrieval. In recent highlights, the organisation's technology was used to run the UK government's local election pilots for almost 700,000 concurrent users, and also supplied one of the first applications to BSkyB for secure online voting. Today, Simplexo technology is delivering value to organisations in many industry sectors, including finance, healthcare and local government