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content sources making this a complex task to address<br />
comprehensively in an enterprise search environment.<br />
• Text clustering, which groups the top several<br />
hundred search results into topics that are computed on<br />
the fly from the search-results descriptions, typically<br />
titles, excerpts (snippets), and meta-data. This technique<br />
lets users navigate the content by topic rather than by the<br />
meta-data that is used in faceting. Clustering compensates<br />
for the problem of incompatible meta-data across<br />
multiple enterprise repositories, which hinders the<br />
usefulness of faceting.<br />
• User interfaces, which in web search are deliberately<br />
kept simple in order not to distract the user from clicking<br />
on ads, which generates the revenue. Although the<br />
business model for enterprise search could include<br />
showing ads, in practice this is not done. To enhance end<br />
user productivity, enterprise vendors continually<br />
experiment with rich UI functionality which occupies<br />
significant screen space, which would be problematic for<br />
web search.<br />
The factors that determine the relevance of search<br />
results within the context of an enterprise overlap with<br />
but are different from those that apply to web search. In<br />
general, enterprise search engines cannot take advantage<br />
of the rich link structure as is found on the web's<br />
hypertext content, however, a new breed of Enterprise<br />
search engines based on a bottom-up Web 2.0 technology<br />
are providing both a contributory approach and<br />
hyperlinking within the enterprise. Algorithms like<br />
PageRank exploit hyperlink structure to assign authority<br />
to documents, and then use that authority as a queryindependent<br />
relevance factor. In contrast, enterprises<br />
typically have to use other query-independent factors,<br />
such as a document's recency or popularity, along with<br />
query-dependent factors traditionally associated with<br />
information retrieval algorithms. Also, the rich<br />
functionality of enterprise search UIs, such as clustering<br />
and faceting, diminish reliance on ranking as the means<br />
to direct the user's attention.<br />
V. ORACLE ULTRA SEARCH<br />
Oracle Ultra Search allows you to reduce the time<br />
spent finding relevant documents on your company’s<br />
information repositories. It crawls, indexes and makes<br />
searchable your corporate intranet through a Web-style<br />
search. It eliminates the need for coding against hard-touse<br />
low level API’s. It organizes and categorizes content<br />
from multiple repositories by extracting valuable<br />
metadata that can be used in portal applications [1].<br />
A. Comprehensive Security Support<br />
In Ultra Search, security has been comprehensively<br />
addressed:<br />
• Searches return only documents that a particular<br />
user is allowed to see – based on group membership and<br />
user privileges.<br />
• Integrated with LDAP. All data sources in your<br />
enterprise and Ultra Search share a common<br />
user .namespace.<br />
• Query API and query samples allow for specifying a<br />
search user. Only users known to your corporate LDAP<br />
server can submit searches.<br />
• All your resources. Web pages, rows in database<br />
tables, emails in IMAP accounts. Can now be protected<br />
by Access Control Lists (ACL).<br />
• Ultra Search can obtain ACLs directly from your<br />
repositories.<br />
• Search Administrators can specify authorization<br />
roles directly in the Ultra Search administrative interface<br />
by entering a grant. List of LDAP users, and groups,<br />
which are allowed to search documents. For example, all<br />
documents retrieved during a crawl can be marked<br />
searchable by anyone belonging to groups G1, G2 and G3.<br />
Or, all users U1, U2 and U3 can be granted permission to<br />
search all documents crawled.<br />
• High performance implementation. ACLs are<br />
cached in memory and evaluated at run time during query<br />
invocation. Authorization automatically turned off if<br />
there are no secure documents in an Ultra Search instance.<br />
B. Ultra Search Applications<br />
Enterprises can benefit by using Ultra Search in many<br />
different types of applications:<br />
• Portal Search--Ultra Search offers the most powerful<br />
search for Enterprise Portals developed with the Oracle<br />
Enterprise Portal Framework. For organizations who<br />
want to build their own portal from scratch, Ultra Search<br />
provides a canned, end-useroriented, web-style search<br />
over various corporate databases, HTML pages, IMAP<br />
email servers, or filesystem documents.<br />
• Web Search for Oracle Text--Ultra Search is an<br />
application built on Oracle Text, Oracle’s industry<br />
leading text retrieval engine.<br />
• Content Management Search--Media organizations<br />
creating or publishing content in a collaborative manner<br />
need to search across content as it moves through<br />
multiple repositories in different stages of the content<br />
management life cycle: from the desktop file of the<br />
author to the staged version in a database.<br />
VI. SYBASE ENTERPRISE PORTAL<br />
Sybase Enterprise Portal provides a personalized,<br />
Web-based entry point to all your enterprise information.<br />
It delivers a continuously available, end-to-end secure<br />
environment that integrates existing business applications<br />
and databases, real-time data feeds, business events, and<br />
Web content into a coherent information interface.<br />
Sybase Enterprise Portal is a set of services that you<br />
can use to address all aspects of the design, development,<br />
deployment, and management of a corporate portal. It<br />
provides a personalized Web site and the middleware that<br />
links data, applications, events, and content between the<br />
Web site and the rest of the enterprise.<br />
A. Comprehensive Security Support<br />
User populations for portals can be very large, creating<br />
an environment in which traditional user account<br />
management and access control cannot function well.<br />
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