IFS delivers Google-Style search
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
IFS, the global enterprise applications company recently delivered an integrated enterprise application search (EAS), making it the first and only top-tier enterprise application vendor (ERP) to embed this critical functionality within an ERP system.
EAS gives information workers access to business information through a "Google-style" search-based interface that is embedded within the enterprise application, says a press release.
"Since the enterprise application search functionality is embedded within IFS Applications, there are nothing else to buy and no additional licensing fees," said Rubaiyat Jamil, the CEO of ICE Technologies and Services Ltd., the Bangladesh distributor for IFS Applications.
It is hard for an external system to perform effectively as a search tool as it does not fully understand the application and underlying metadata it is running within. Because it is an integrated part of IFS Applications, IFS' EAS delivers more targeted results than a generic enterprise search. For example, a user can tell the IFS Applications' EAS tool that the scope of the search should be invoices, spare parts or customers, and only the specified data will be returned.
EAS gives information workers access to business information through a "Google-style" search-based interface that is embedded within the enterprise application, says a press release.
"Since the enterprise application search functionality is embedded within IFS Applications, there are nothing else to buy and no additional licensing fees," said Rubaiyat Jamil, the CEO of ICE Technologies and Services Ltd., the Bangladesh distributor for IFS Applications.
It is hard for an external system to perform effectively as a search tool as it does not fully understand the application and underlying metadata it is running within. Because it is an integrated part of IFS Applications, IFS' EAS delivers more targeted results than a generic enterprise search. For example, a user can tell the IFS Applications' EAS tool that the scope of the search should be invoices, spare parts or customers, and only the specified data will be returned.