Yesterday, Coveo published a press release introducing Coveo Enterprise Search for Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Technologies.
Customers recognized and requested the enhancements that CES can offer for the SPT user, including:
- Intelligent summarization and concept extraction technologies, both of which help users optimize their search experience.
- A “View as HTML” feature that provides cached HTML versions with highlighted query terms for Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDFs and other non-HTML documents.
- Improved relevance with query capabilities based on powerful syntax that supports spelling suggestion, stemming, exact phrase and Boolean operators.
- Configurable search preferences that allow users to tailor the search experience to their liking.
- Advanced handling of metadata and XML data to provide more accurate search results.
- Plug-in-style integration with SPT so that users are presented with the familiar look and feel of the SPT environment.
- Robust search technology that leverages existing SPT security to control access to sensitive company data.
I wonder how this will be of more value then extending the Sharepoint Search such as Matthew is doing right now with his SPS Advanced Search Tools (SAST), which is currently in beta. In a small organisation where I work in (about 50 employees), the (Sharepoint) search catalogs contain about 50.000 documents right now. In this case we would pay a $15.000 price when using Coveo search, while the SPS Search is included in the licence... do I miss something here?