The last few years have brought significant changes in the enterprise search market. Acquisitions, redirected strategies and discontinued products have altered the landscape, but the most dramatic development is the emergence of a new class of technology, unified information access (UIA), which combines the best of search and database applications. This article details the top reasons our customers have upgraded their legacy search technology and why selecting UIA is the optimal approach to expand your information access capabilities.

Top 10 Reasons Replace Enterprise Search with UIA:

1. Current search solution is too expensive

It's not just the license and the required number of servers or appliances, it's the ongoing operational costs, the added fees for expanding document volume and servers, and the consultants required for long implementation, tuning and upgrade phases. And for all the expense, the results aren't that impressive either.

Why UIA is better: Spend less, get more

Although we can't speak for other UIA products, Attivio's UIA platform delivers better results at a lower total cost of ownership. The lower cost includes:

• Dramatically faster development and deployment time, so lower fees for professional services and faster time to value

• No requirement for taxonomy or manual facet development

• Smaller number of servers required because of a combination of optimized ingestion and query performance (you can simultaneously ingest 100M documents while maintaining 20-40 QPS with query delays of no more than 2 seconds — try achieving that on one server with a legacy search engine)

• Ability to add servers and new data formats without re-indexing

2. Current search solution doesn't scale easily

There's got to be an easier way to add new content sources, more servers, more navigation options without having to re-index. Changes are disruptive and expensive, often discouraging expansion and innovation.

Why UIA is better: UIA from Attivio scales seamlessly

Why guess what your needs will be later and buy all the hardware now? With Attivio AIE, there's no need to plan future expansion and invest in hardware upfront because AIE scales incrementally - and without disruptive re-indexing for additional hardware or data formats.