The company emphasizes the following features: Performance enhancements--Indexing and search performance has been increased by a factor of three for large document collections (up to 200 million documents on a single server). New integration with exalead one:desktop--Combined with other Exalead products, users are offered a unified view of information whether it resides on one's PC, company intranet or the Web. Enhanced configurability--Exalead has implemented a new HTTP crawler configuration tool to allow administrators to have a better control of the crawler's behavior. Tighter security--A refined security infrastructure allows for a finer-grained control of the access control list of any document, including Windows or Unix files, Lotus Notes items, database entries and even HTML pages. Increased flexibility--Improved support for custom style sheets allows administrators to more easily customize the Exalead user interface and take full control of the style and layout. Support for more industry standards--Exalead's software products and user interfaces now include support for W3C specifications, including the W3C WAI (Web accessibility initiative). Real-time filtering technology--Exalead technology provides a unified, integrated tool that can be used for lexical, grammatical, structural (XML-based) and business rules-based filtering. Advanced semantic technologies--Exalead offers named entity recognition (people, places, dates, currency); thesaurus integration; a full-fledged document categorization module; and a new open architecture for integrating third-party semantic indexing technologies. Advanced query capabilities and linguistics--Version 4.0 offers spelling suggestion, phonetic and proximity search, fuzzy matching, word-stemming, multilanguage search, automatic phrase detection, automatic translation, regular expressions and more. Extended multilingual support--Exalead now natively supports more than 49 languages, including Chinese, Japanese and other Asian languages. Easier configuration--The point-and-click configuration user interface has an expert mode and rapid application development for complex applications. The configuration module is also fully remote-controllable via Web Services APIs. |
