Step Up from "Enterprise Search" to Unified Information Access with Attivio

Today, organizations are finding their legacy enterprise search solution can no longer keep up with accelerated business demands that require the ability to easily combine, access, analyze and automate information in new ways.

Even worse, some enterprise search vendors have not issued a major release in years, while others are actually cutting their product resources. Others seem preoccupied with their own business activities instead of enabling those of their customers. Meanwhile, enterprise search customers remain saddled with bloated costs and declining business value.

It's time to step up to the power of unified information access (UIA): the new level of enterprise information management that goes far beyond enterprise search.

Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE) is a comprehensive UIA platform. Unlike search, AIE integrates, joins and presents structured data (data warehouses, transactional databases, etc.) with unstructured content (documents, web content, email, multiple SharePoint instances, etc.). AIE supports SQL and simple search-style queries to retrieve information via reports, custom interfaces, and dashboards, including popular BI tools.

AIE provides compelling new business value and benefits while dramatically reducing costs associated with license and maintenance fees, servers and storage. Additionally, we eliminate the need to re-index as new hardware and content sources are added.

"[Our] incumbent [search] vendor proposed a multimillion dollar, 54-week version update project that would not have significantly improved performance or provided a platform for innovation. Attivio emerged as the company best suited to address all of our requirements and then implemented everything in a seven-week timeframe at a lower overall cost, with AIE providing even more capabilities than expected."

- John Landy, Chief Technology Officer, IntraLinks

Here are some of the experiences our customers have shared with us about their (former) enterprise search vendors:

• Our search vendor charges high maintenance fees — and provides low level customer service.
• As our content grows, so do our invoices — we're getting hammered with punitive volume-based pricing!
• Our search product requires its own farm of expensive servers and CPUs — and an army of consultants to keep it going!
• We've been told by our search vendor our version has been discontinued, so we have to switch to another platform.
• If our search vendor has a product roadmap, it's news to us — we haven't had a major upgrade in years.
• Our solution can't ingest structured data without "flattening" it.
• Whenever we add new data sources or additional hardware, we have to re-index everything. It's ridiculous!
• Our search vendor no longer listens to us.

If any of these statements ring true to you, let's talk: Contact us to discuss your current enterprise search situation and calculate the cost savings and new business benefits awaiting you with Attivio.

We have achieved massive cost savings and new business opportunities for customers who have replaced their legacy search product with AIE and look forward to doing the same and more for you.