Oracle readies stand-alone enterprise search

By Martyn Williams and China Martens, IDG News Service, 03/02/06

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Oracle Thursday entered the stand-alone enterprise search market with a new product that it hopes will do for corporate data when Google has done for public data on the Web.

Known as Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, the stand-alone search engine is for use by corporations seeking to ensure that only authorized staff are able to access sensitive business information.

"We're very excited about this product," Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said during a keynote address at the Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo 2006 conference in Japan on Thursday. "It's one of our biggest announcements for many, many years. It's the result of years of innovation and hard work."

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g will support the searching of a company's databases, applications, file servers, repositories, Web portals and internal and external Web sites, according to Sandeepan Banerjee, director of product management for objects and extensibility with Oracle. The search engine is integrated with multiple user authentication systems so that a particular user will only be able to see search results tied to the information they are authorized to view, he said in a phone interview Wednesday.

"Our search tool understands which information goes to which user," Greg Crider, senior director for technology marketing with Oracle, said during the phone interview.

That marks a key difference from Google, which doesn't do well searching private data, Ellison said.

"There is a reason why public search is available and popular but no one yet has done a good job on secure search," he said. "No one has done a good job yet searching private data, even though the private data is the most valuable data you have."

The system is built on an Oracle database, said Ellison.

"It's a separate database that indexes all of your data," he said. "There are crawlers, in a sense it is very similar to what Google does, but you're not crawling the public Internet. You're crawling and indexing all of your private databases, Microsoft Word files and all your data and building in a separate Oracle database all these indexes."

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