Intellisearch enables Advanced Search in Microsoft Sharepoint

PRESS RELEASE
Lysaker, 27. September 2006

Intellisearch is launching Enterprise Search in Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server and Windows Sharepoint Services. The solution enables Search access from SharePoint to all the information in a company’s internal and external systems like intranet, mail, files, production, documents, financials, external web pages and news sources. The launch is part of IntelliSearch’s strategy to have ready-made integrations to the most popular enterprise applications in the marketplace.

Search is essential for SharePoint users
Intranet portals and collaboration rooms are frequently used by project oriented enterprises. For every new project, a new collaboration room is added with project documentation like schedules, drawings, documents, email, RFQs, etc. Collaboration rooms in organizations have a tendency to grow like mushrooms, and companies have difficulties organizing information located in separate rooms for reuse. At the same time project efficiency is dependent on project member ability to find and reuse information. This is the role of the Search engine. Advanced search enables easy access to information across projects, across project disciplines, and across geographical locations.

Current Sharepoint versions only offers metadata based keyword search, with limited speed and confined to search within the specific collaboration room and portal. With IntelliSearch Enterprise Search Platform, Sharepoint users can now search across collaboration rooms and portals, and they can search within all texts – not only metadata. IntelliSearch also expands search options in Sharepoint to include categorization and people search in addition to search in html, documents, projects and more. Results are displayed in an intuitive drill-down result list. Furthermore, the search can be personalized to include predefined searches that can alert users of new documents, schedules etc. Intellisearch’s solution is tightly integrated with Sharepoint’s security features.

SharePoint Customers choose Intellisearch Enterprise
We experience a need for advanced Search in the SharePoint community, says founder and CEO in Intellisearch, Harald Jellum. Intellisearch customers like The Norwegian Post, Red Cross, The Norwegian Directorate of Education, and the shipping company IM Skaugen, are all examples of SharePoint users that have chosen Intellisearch to add search capabilities in their SharePoint solution. Intellisearch sees the SharePoint-users as a promising market. This is a large market where SharePoint customers don’t fully utilize the potential of their SharePoint solution. With Intellisearch, enterprises will be able increase the business value of their installation through reuse of information.

About Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, an enterprise portal, and Windows SharePoint Services, a collaboration tool, are two popular Microsoft products with more than 70 million users worldwide.