Over the past year or so, there have been a plethora of low cost search offerings introduced to the market. This has been great for organizations since it is providing them with a lower cost of entry to begin taking advantage of search capabilities. However, most of these solutions are requiring organizations to sacrifice functionality and quality for price.
That may be fine for the basic site search needs of many smaller organizations. However, as organizations grow or departments want to extend their deployments to take advantage of some of the more advanced, enterprise search capabilities, they will be forced to move to entirely new platforms or begin trying to plug in various third party components and develop their own customizations.
IBM has taken the first step in trying to address this challenge by providing a lower cost entry point for its advanced enterprise search and content integration offerings. This will make it easier for organizations to start off small, but still have access to rich search capabilities. And it will provide them with a search platform that can grow with them and be incorporated into their broader enterprise environments. You can read more about this OmniFind Starter Edition offering on the IBM site. There is also a Starter Edition offering for the IBM content integration software.
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