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The Current Challenges
In May of
2002,Yankee Group issued a report saying that, "...content
expansion and efficiency concerns have catapulted search from its
nice-to-have status to become a critical enterprise application."
A recent Delphi Group study found that 60% of survey respondents
were finding it difficult to access relevant information necessary
for the performance of their job roles. Nearly that many said that
they routinely spent as much as two hours a day engaged in searching
activity. Additionally, 90% of organizations responding to the Delphi
survey indicated that they expected to have a new data classification
plan in place within the next twenty-four months. Numbers like these
give weight to the Ovum contention that despite the current sharp
downturn, the market
for next generation search will be worth as much as 1 billion USD
by 2006.
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order for search and IR technology to play the role of a discrete
infrastructure layer supporting the extended enterprise value chain,
it must do more than provide state-ofthe- art mechanisms for indexing,
searching, and retrieving data of any format from any kind of enterprise
data repository. To rise to the level of application infrastructure
for the enterprise, search and IR technology must meet the challenge
of participating in enterprise application platforms generally-it
must be architected in a way that responds to the twin challenges
of complexity and heterogeneity.
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| The Solution
The
Information Retrieval Management System
( IRMS R2 ) responds to these challenges by realizing
a platform concept that makes it possible to embed search and
IR technology more deeply than ever into the corporate application
infrastructure. Where other providers focus on concatenating their
ideal super-set of features into a standalone or vertical KM application,
Tornado addresses the inherent challenges facing all KM applications
(adapting to unique IT and security requirements, business logics,
legacy data endowments, and integration requirements) by architecting
IRMS entirely on open, industry standard technology, and by delivering
services by means of a componentized, loosely-coupled application
design.
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