Exalead Overview

Why use Exalead CloudView?

Search Based Applications(SBAs)

Efficient information indexing

Knowledge and experience are a company’s most precious resources as they permit qualified andrapid decision-making. However, even in the most modern corporations, current knowledge management techniques are unable to fully exploit the valuable information contained in an information repository.

This solution is the basis for all SBAs. It offers the best of two previously distinct worlds:businessintelligence and business search. SBAs are being used for all applications in which information access plays a central role.

Improved database applications

Extended enterprise business applications

Innovative online applications

SBAs are enabling online businesses to create innovative, high performance ‘mash-up’applications that seamlessly merge content and functionality from diverse sources such as databases, mapping services, business databases and the Web.

Why Exalead CloudView?

With Exalead CloudView, huge quantities of information can be exploited with ease. The platform uses semantic technologies to reconcile formats, structures and terminologies, and identify embedded meanings and relationships within and across resources. All information sources are unified in a robust modular index that ensures continuous access and optimal use of server resources through distribution and data redundancy.

Migrating the query load to Exalead CloudViewmeans a huge reduction in the load on the database, and an end to the resource conflicts between accessing and updating data.

Using the Exalead CloudView Search API, you can fully customize your search application and ensure that data from all your information sources is available where, how and to whom you choose.Exalead CloudView can provide a more intuitive and satisfying way of asking questions and getting results, and a data model closer to your user's representation of the data. Search queries are asked and answered naturally, smoothing the flow of business-critical information.

Introducing the Design Principles

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Service Oriented Architecture
The Exalead CloudView components are services communicating through a secure framework either locally or remotely over the network. The interfaces between the components is not dependent on the implementation or the physical deployment of the components.

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Extensible platform
Exalead CloudView is fully extensible. Internal and external APIs allow clients to automatically discover available services. New services can be added by plugging new components without modifying any other existing component.

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OEM-friendly
Exalead CloudView provides public, open interfaces for all functionality. Plugging connectors, processing, indexing and searching documents, can all be configured and performed through public interfaces.

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Robust
All critical components of Exalead CloudView can be distributed. All critical data can be replicated. Crash recovery procedures ensure that no data is lost.

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Continuous service
Processing & indexing documents and searching the index are independent processes that can be controlled separately and replicated. A change in status of one of these processes should not impact the others.

The CloudView 360 Modules

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Business Console
The Business Console is meant to give control of search application to business users, withfeatures such as synonyms, search relevance tuning, content boosting or query reporting.

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Mashup Builder
Intuitive administration interface for 360 components, from data ontology configuration to afully drag and drop Mashup builder.

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Mashup UI
Highly modular and easy to customize front-end delivered with a rich set of widgets to build rich mashups on top of a Mashup API.

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Mashup API
Query time content federation engine. Allows to fetch content from heterogeneous sources at query time to search across different corpus or enrich already fetched hits.

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Administration APIs
A set of HTTP REST services to programmatically configure the 360 modules, apply partially or fully the configuration etc.

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Trusted Queries
A next generation content suggestion engine that takes advantage of the data structure to helpthe user to build semi structured queries to find content.

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Data Ontology
High level data schema description. Provides an object oriented model for describing your datatypes, relationships and indexing strategies.