Coveo Enterprise Search 5 (CES 5) is the first commercially-viable enterprise search solution for today's complex data environments. Coveo Enterprise Search provides unbiased, secure information access for all documents, multimedia files and structured data stored in the file systems, email servers, intranets, enterprise applications, databases, and web sites. Based on industry standards, offering an award-winning combination of security, accuracy, and user friendliness, Coveo Enterprise Search offers the best value in the marketplace.

Is integration with Microsoft SharePoint an important driver? Coveo has taken the powerful, award-winning capabilities of Coveo Enterprise Search 5 (CES5) and integrated them with SharePoint. The result delivers supercharged secure search for content stored in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 2.0 and 3.0 as well as content in repositories outside of the SharePoint environment.

With improved search navigation, live indexing and quick views of search results from Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server 2007 libraries, users can now get to the right information in record time

- Rapidly access information scattered throughout file servers, intranets, Exchange public folders, and Web sites.
- Save time by taking advantage of quick access to relevant information.
- Benefit from superior result relevance thanks to Coveo’s unique and advanced summarisation and concept extraction technologies.
- Ensure result freshness with real-time updates of your documents.
- Enforce existing network file/Microsoft Exchange Server access permissions down to the document level automatically, and extend this protection to results lists and summaries.
- Enjoy user-friendly Web-based search and administration interfaces, streamlined with Coveo’s award-winning usability expertise.

Launch of Coveo Enterprise Search version 5
Coveo Enterprise Search, with the release of version 5.0, now provides support for the new Microsoft Office 2007 system including:

Uncompromised Document Level Security for Enterprise

• Coveo Enterprise Search 5.0 provides deeper security integration capabilities through the addition of single sign-on support, early and late binding document security and a flexible provider API
• Coveo Enterprise Search recognises existing user permissions in Microsoft file servers, Exchange Servers, SharePoint, Novell Netware, Lotus Notes, and many others (via security providers API), ensuring users are given result sets that include only documents. Distributed indexing capabilities unify data located in different geographic locations into a single, integrated set of index results, enabling an optimised balance in speed and relevancy, and a more scalable approach to information retrieval.

Lightning Fast Search Across Repositories Located Anywhere

• Powerful, new connectors have been added to the Coveo Enterprise Search library, further expanding the flexibility of the product by allowing businesses to index content from the most commonly used enterprise repositories including Salesforce.com, Microsoft Exchange, Documentum and Symantec Enterprise Vault
• With API connectivity to Google OneBox for Enterprise, users can also obtain federated query results from content in enterprise repositories and business applications, such as SAP, Cognos and Business Objects
• Coveo Enterprise Search allows the administrator to index new file types in minutes
• In addition to document content, Coveo Enterprise Search searches across dates, author, title, email recipients, database fields or any document-related metadata
• Coveo Enterprise Search provides sub-second query results on tens of millions of documents
• In addition to document content, Coveo Enterprise Search searches across dates, author, title, email recipients, database fields or any document-related metadata
• Coveo Enterprise Search provides sub-second query results on tens of millions of documents

Superior Accuracy & Flexibility

• Real-time ranking allows administrators to easily customise the rank of search results, enabling specified data to have a greater or lessened emphasis within the results set
• Advanced ranking algorithms use Concept and Summary extraction for accurate results and faster viewing
• Using advanced file level system monitoring, Coveo Enterprise Search provides real-time document and security updates to ensure the most accurate result set
• The de-duplication algorithm removes duplicate content from the result set
• Collaborative ranking allows workgroup preferences to weight document rankings in the result set according to the collaborative needs of the group
• Unparalleled accuracy with powerful syntax for fielded search, stemming, exact phrase, Boolean operators, and more

Unrivalled User Experience

• New richer search interface makes extensive use of Ajax technologies to provide inline document summaries and concepts, thumbnails, pop-up quick view, RSS feeds and a more responsive feel
• Faceted Search allows users to drill down into result sets by document type, author, cluster or any metadata
• Quick view and Concept Summary identify document summaries and extract key concepts allowing users to quickly identify document content
• Users may change preferences and customise the look and feel of the result set
• "Did You Mean" offers alternatives to misspelled queries based on indexed terms

Language Support

• Coveo Enterprise Search indexes and searches for documents in English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese and Korean

Highly Configurable, Minimal Administration, and Industry-Leading TCO

• CES leverages the value of existing IT investments including Windows Server, Active Directory, Internet Information Services and SharePoint
• Typical deployment is completed in less than 24 hours without extensive professional services
• Distributed architecture for high availability, load balancing and larger indexes
• Web-based administration supports easy configuration, monitoring, and customisation without extensive training
• Configuration and fine tuning options include weighted ranking, schedules for backup mode and index compactions, extensive reports and statistics about index contents, queries, connectors, converters, and systems operations
• Coveo Enterprise Search offers API is comprehensive and extensive, allowing administrators to write a custom connector or converter, or integrate with enterprise applications and back end systems

Clients with a maintenance plan should receive a free upgrade.

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