PolySpot SearchMart

Index-linked search service publisher

From PolySpot InfoWarehouse, a semi-structured database, PolySpot SearchMart publishes index-linked search services accessible by different applications through an API XML / HTTP.

Companies can easily develop and deploy various search applications that meet the needs of its various departments and functions.

Features accessible through the API

Intelligent search and browsing functions that help users to access information quickly:

• Search by keyword and/or operator (Boolean, truncation, lemmatisation, etc.)
• Multilingual search (more than 50 languages indexed as standard)
• Auto-complete: automatic query refinement suggestions
• Phonetic search
• Advanced search by view
• Search by category (browsing)
• Spelling suggestions
• Extended search including the company's thesauruses/ontology
• Property-based filtering and dynamic browsing (can be used to apply several search filters to a set of data or documents)
• Browsing assistance: browsing history, displaying previously-selected filters and allowing the user to disable certain filters during the course of a search
• Automatic context-based summary
• Preview thumbnail
• Automatic "tag cloud" classification
• Similar document search function ("More like this")
• Sort results by date, relevance or other, customisable criterion    
• Option to include a "viewer" module, to view documents in streaming mode without requiring the source application
• Highlighted search terms and display in HTML cache mode
• Browse through each individual occurrence of a particular search term

Alert and Push functions

• Program complex alerts for real-time information about selected topics (e.g. business intelligence activities
• Automatic document recommendations based on the user's profile

Additional collaboration functions

• Add comments and tags, with the option to "score" a document
• Expert identification based on business-specific topics
• Most commonly-viewed documents, most popular documents, etc.
• Save "favourites"
• Print, transfer or export documents (by email, zip, XML, etc.)

	Deployment made easy The platform offers access to a wide library of services via open API's (Java and XML/HTTP) and can therefore be used to develop search applications in no time, featuring user-friendly and intuitive user interfaces. PolySpot Information At Work offers best practice guidelines via a series of templates tailored to different repository types and indexed data formats (documents, emails, images, news items, videos, etc.). PolySpot Information At Work also includes automatic source metadata extraction capabilities as well as highly versatile process configuration options.