Bayer Business Services: Enterprise Search

Simple acquisition of information
A PDF on the local drive, a Word document on the group server, HTML pages on a network drive – users store a lot of information unstructured, and the amount of this information doubles every year. Searching for these files is time-consuming and expensive. Searching instead of doing productive work costs a company with 1,000 employees 2.5 million euros a year.

With enterprise search, Bayer Business Services can search e-mail messages, groupware (Lotus Notes), the intranet, the Internet, network drives and document management systems for structured (SAP, CRM, Oracle) and unstructured data and display classified results.

Quickly display qualified data

The desktop search further enables the contents of the local computer to be included in the search more quickly, with all results from local data and shared data (e-mail, calendars, hard drives, SAP, CRM, Documentum, intranet, Internet and network drives) displayed quickly and qualified according to the authorization concept.

Desktop search has been a standard component of Apple's Mac OS X operating system for several years now, and Microsoft has also included such a tool in its new Windows Vista operating system. Google, the leading search provider, also markets a search application, and its attractive solutions for private persons and enterprises have been well received.

Solution runs on any platform

One particular advantage of these solutions is that they are operating system-independent; the user can remain in his or her accustomed work environment. Another advantage is that no expensive licenses are required. The average user will soon consider desktop search to be a must-have feature. The combination of enterprise search and desktop search will become increasingly important in the future and simplify the acquisition of information.