Summary

Close scrutiny of the functionality and speed factors of the search engines brings us to a difficult decision. It turned out that the new solution from the Russian company SoftInform works much faster and more efficiently than its Western, "time-proved" counterparts. However…

The well promoted and absolutely free GDS Enterprise can be fine-tuned and laden with additional features only via installing plug-ins. This is how support of archives is implemented. In addition, to be able to enjoy all features of this information retrieval system is full operation, developers recommend that you acquire Premium Support. And it costs, by the way, "next to nothing", $10000 a year for every 1000 users. Without well-paid experts Google will find deploying a full-fledged working enterprise information retrieval system not quite impossible, but extremely difficult. Therefore, in view of rather satisfactory speed characteristics of the document retrieval application and its user-friendly IE-like interface we would do it justice by labeling it as a great "desktop" full text search tool, and give Google its due for attempting to put into practice the dream of Bill Gates, namely to come into every home. It is excellent branding, isn't it?

The tests revealed two major rivals, if we may call them so, they are the already known products dtSearch and iSYS, and the new solution SearchInform developed by the Russian company SoftInform. These systems brag on the ability to connect to third party sources of knowledge, such as, for example, databases, high speed of indexing and searching with advanced search features.

In addition to the highest speed of indexing and searching documents seasoned with the unique feature of searching documents with a similar content, SearchInform Corporate can act as a search engine that consolidates information within the whole enterprise. The thing is, this full text search system can process not only documents on a computer disk, or in the network of an enterprise, but also utilize other data sources, such as CRM or DMS, DBMS on the basis of MS SQL and so on. It goes without saying that SearchInform Corporate is the only information retrieval application from the review that can solve both of the most burning problems of enterprise dataware - the problem of searching documents, as well as consolidating the knowledge into a single and expedient system.