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Are you selling your product or ours? Your embedded search technology should not feel like it's taking over your application. Attivio's Embedded AIE (Active Intelligence Engine) is the first enterprise search engine specifically designed from the ground up for customers who rely on search as an integral component of their applications. With simple integration, true incremental scalability, and a tiny footprint, your product can be about your product, not about search.
Embedded AIE is designed around three criteria: configuration, integration, and performance. Our goal is a product that is efficient, out of your way, easy to work with, and completely reliable.
Configuration
AIE can be tuned quickly and efficiently to the specific needs of your customers' environments. We provide a library of preset customer configurations (and let you build your own profiles) so you have great out-of-the-box relevancy and can be up and running faster without needing to dedicate an engineer to each of your customers. AIE also supports a wide range of formats and protocols, and especially standards, for greater flexibility in connecting to your data.
| What do you get? |
What does it mean for you? |
• Core footprint < 10MB
• Index size typically 20-40% of source data
• True incremental indexing (add hardware as your index expands without re-indexing) |
• Your product isn't taken over by search
• Your customers begin with a lower setup cost and aren't overwhelmed by the size of their search index as it grows |
• Preset customer configurations, or profiles, that optimally pre-configure the system
• You can create your own as well |
• Great out-of-the-box relevancy
• You're up and running faster without dedicating an engineer to each customer |
| • Fault tolerance, high availability, multiple masters, full access control with last-second “live” checks against security authorities (AD or LDAP) |
• Your application will never lose data
• Your information is secure |
| • Multi-platform: written entirely in Java and contained within a single instance |
• No platform restrictions (supports any platform that runs Java)
• Easy to install because there is only one instance to contend with |
| • Multi-tenant: host several customers in a single instance or in separate instances |
• You can offer your application as a service and host it yourself (SaaS) |
| • Multi-format: large library of connectors for converting data and content from their native formats (e.g. databases, email, Microsoft Office, pdf, etc.) |
• Any data or content you need to query for your application, we get it there |
| • Multi-channel: library of communication transport protocols for ingesting content and processing queries and results; includes AS400, EJB, Email, File, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, JDBC, Pop3, JMS/ActiveMQ, Multicast, Quartz, Servlet, RMI, Stream, SMTP, SOAP, SSL, TCP, UDP, VFS, VM, WSDL, and Xmpp |
• Greater access to and from your product (e.g. document ingestion through FTP, queries through SMS, results through email, events through SMTP) |
| • Multi-lingual: index, sort, and search content in most any language, including complex languages such as Japanese and Chinese |
• Greater customer reach and flexibility
• Global implementations |
Integration
Embedded AIE comes with a complete Developer FIRST™ API and a unique flexible processing model so it connects easier and faster to your application. A common transport layer manages all communication in and out of AIE, removing your need to develop the front and back end integrations separately and providing a true event-based active system.
| What do you get? |
What does it mean for you? |
| • Ability to save queries as alerts and tie results directly to actions and events (e.g. notification via email, SMS or IM; SQL write to a database) |
•Your application is actively connected with its environment |
| • Workflow-based processing of complex content (e.g. email attachments, ZIP files), queries, and results; supports conditional branching, loops, parallel logic, calls to external systems, event triggering |
•Virtually any type of complex logic for ingesting data and content or managing queries, results, and alerts can be supported through the same workflow environment |
| •All functionality accessible through Developer FIRST™ API, designed by engineers for engineers, with complete SDK, task-oriented documentation, customer extranet, sample front-end code and integration logic |
•Efficient, understandable interface for a complete lights-out implementation
•Up and running faster because you're more efficient and you have a shorter learning curve
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| •Custom built Office and pdf connectors for text mining deeper than conventionally available |
•Deepest insight into the data and content you may care about most: Office, pdf |
Performance
We designed AIE from the beginning to support real-time, high-volume demands with the best possible search experience. Embedded AIE ingests most any content in any language or encoding, and JOINs are processed internally to greatly improve performance time. Our distributed implementation model provides true incremental scaling, so your customers can start at a lower setup cost and expand with your application. Plus, AIE automatically selects, calculates, and displays on the fly the most relevant facets with no pre-computing or re-indexing required.
| What do you get? |
What does it mean for you? |
| • Automatic, on-the-fly facet creation (e.g. search for 'laptop' creates facets 'CPU', 'screen size', 'weight'; search for 'server' creates 'CPU', 'memory', 'number of rack units') |
• You can create your own as well
• No setup or update costs to use facets
• No down time to re-index when facets change |
• Full query support (parametric, +/- style, Boolean, proximity, natural language, etc.)
• Advanced relevancy model that incorporates facet analysis in the corpus calculation |
• Great relevancy, great results |
| • Custom database connector for better performance (e.g. JOINs handled in AIE, not through SQL query to database) |
• No more "killer queries"
• Database no longer the bottleneck |