4. Applied software based on the SoftInform Search Technology

4.1. SearchInform Desktop Edition

SearchInform Desktop Edition is a range of software for performing full text search of information and searching documents with contents similar to query text.  It is a cutting-edge and dynamic tool for searching and processing information stored in files of any format, email messages, audio and video tags and in databases.

The personal search software SearchInform Desktop Edition sports an assortment of features not only for simple documents search on a disk or in mail messages, but also robust solutions for professional users demanding enhanced functionality and automated document processing.

All the products of the personal search software SearchInform Desktop deliver the followings functionality:
- Phrasal search with account of morphology and the synonyms dictionary
- The new technology for searching similar documents SoftInform Search Technology
- High indexing speed (up to 30 Gb/hour), 
- Index size about 15-20% of the actual text information amount
- Support of over 50 widely used text file formats
- Indexing and searching electronic messages in Outlook Express, TheBat!, Eudora, instant messengers logs ICQ 99-2003b and Miranda, audio and video tags
- Flawless operation with archives
- Universal data sources

The SearchInform Company offers several versions of SearchInform Desktop which differ in their functionality set and price. You can learn about the differences in the versions here

 4.1.1. SearchInform Desktop Free

SearchInform Desktop Free is a free version of the full-text search and search of documents with a similar content SearchInform Desktop. SearchInform Desktop Free is available for free with a limitation of index size at 1,5 Gb of pure textual information (not the actual size of indexed files, but the size of text they contain).

 4.1.2. SearchInform Desktop Standard

SearchInform Desktop Standard is a program performing full text search of documents on PCs. It incorporates the ability to perform phrasal search with account of morphology and the synonyms dictionary, as well as the new search similar technology SoftInform Search Technology.

The high indexing speed, the support of over 50 widely used and specialized file formats alike, an unlimited number of created indices, the ability to view the found documents in various formats (both as a text and in its "native" format) – SearchInform Desktop Standard furnishes all the features that you need for searching any information on your PC.

 4.1.3. SearchInform Desktop Professional

SearchInform Desktop Professional is a professional version of the program for full-text search and search of similar documents SearchInform Desktop from SearchInform that not only performs the standard search in documents, email and IM messages, but also searches information in various databases and informational systems. Some of the major advantages of SearchInform Desktop Professional are the documents rubricator that can automatically sort them to the appropriate rubrics and expanded index manager functionality that can fragment and check indexed information. SearchInform Desktop Professional is a robust and dynamic tool for searching information not only in files and folders on your hard drive, but also in databases and informational systems.

 4.1.4. SearchInform Desktop Enterprise

SearchInform Desktop Enterprise is a multifunctional system of information search designed for professional users seeking expanded functionality. In addition to the functionality of the previous versions, SearchInform Desktop Enterprise includes automatic parsing, connecting all fields from Access DBMS files and close integration with the mail client Outlook. Furthermore, SearchInform Desktop Enterprise with an embedded module for indexing Web-sites to a certain depth [web-spider] allows searching information in previously indexed Internet resources, as well as creating an archive of downloaded Web pages automatically sorted to the appropriate rubrics and saving it on the local PC.

SearchInform Desktop Enterprise is an all-in-one and the most functional tool of the search software SearchInform Desktop that equips users with the most comprehensive set of functions for searching information and processing documents.

4.2. SearchInform Corporate Edition

SearchInform Corporate Edition is a range of corporate systems developed for solving numerous challenges of information search in local networks. SearchInform Corporate is a robust corporate system with a client-server architecture incorporating all the tools required for structuring disintegrated information within the framework of a company and for creating a system of quick search and further processing of documents.

The products within the SearchInform Corporate range are easily integrated into a company's informational structure, allowing to search both within files on PC disks in the local network or in various data sources. The introduction of SearchInform Corporate Edition does not require changing the existing business processes and allows the company to save the finances invested into the existing informational infrastructure.  At the same time the system combines separate corporate applications and data into a single information system which results in a more efficient solution to business-tasks.

The delivery package of all software versions of SearchInform Corporate Edition includes:

1. The server version of SearchInform Corporate Server Edition (SE). An administration pane for indexing the information, managing network indices and user access levels. 

2. The client version of SearchInform Corporate Client Edition (CE). A system for full text search of information and documents with a similar content in local networks.

In addition to the scope of the SoftInform Search Technology presented on the page dedicated to SearchInform Desktop Edition, the corporate tools of the search SoftInform software sport the following features:
- client-server architecture
- differentiation of user access rights (both internal within the framework of the system, and based on inheritance of NTFS Windows authentication)
- three-level administration of user access to information (to the index, to the data sources, to indexed files)
- indexing information in the local network, creating and utilizing network indices
- the various data sources concept (from the Professional version)
- flexible integration into the existing informational systems
- reduced duration of documents search and solving various search problems at the company
- in addition to network search, the client version allows searching documents on local user PC
- system scalability
- information security (only with the Enterprise version)

 4.2.1. SearchInform Corporate Standard

SearchInform Corporate Standard is the standard version of the corporate search system SearchInform Corporate. It is a handy and efficient tool for searching information in files of various formats in local networks, electronic messages of such mail clients as Outlook, Outlook Express, TheBat! and Eudora, and in logs of instant messengers ICQ 99-2005 and Microsoft Messenger.

 4.2.2. SearchInform Corporate Professional

SearchInform Corporate Professional is a powerful corporate system for searching and consolidating information within the framework of the company. The main difference of SearchInform Corporate Professional from the standard version is the ability to connect to various data sources for indexing and searching (all sorts of DBMS, CRM, PDM, ERP systems, etc.).

The client-server architecture and different user access rights (inheriting NTFT Windows authentication) in SearchInform Corporate Professional make it possible to empower the company with a system of streamlined information search in all available documents.

The unique patented technology of technology for searching documents with contents similar to query text, SoftInform Search Technology, which serves as the basis for developing SoftInform software solves such problems of corporate information search as long search sessions and fuzziness of informational content.

 4.2.3. SearchInform Corporate Enterprise

By utilizing the SearchInform Corporate Professional at your company you will eliminate the problem of consolidating corporate information located within various informational systems and file repositories (both in databases and on file servers). However, structuring all information on all user PCs (documents on local disks, electronic mail, IM messages, etc.) requires higher level software.

SearchInform Corporate Enterprise logically complements the software already functioning at the company. This system will organize all available information from all work stations into a single whole in order to solve tasks of all sorts.

First of all, facilitating search of the required information within the whole company rather than in separate informational systems. Any company employee will be able to access indices located on a separate server according to the informational security policy adopted in the local network (the system supports inheritance of NTFS-authentication). User can perform the search within all information at once, or using a limitation of choice: on computers of a selected department, by user lists, and so on.