The overall description is a fair representation of enterprise search technology today. Selecting the vendor is only one step. A much larger one is to make the technology meet an organization's information needs - an endeavour that takes much planning and much adaption of both the technology and the organization.
"This Magic Quadrant assesses vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a range of technologies. Their capabilities include: search; federated search, content analytics, such as content classification, categorization and clustering, fact and entity extraction, taxonomy creation and management, information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding; and desktop search to address user-controlled repositories to locate and "invoke" documents, data and e-mail."
Gartner included vendors that have search as the foundation piece. It notes that "Many include other capabilities such as autocategorization, taxonomy functions and clustering, but we excluded those that offer only these capabilities, with no search."
Companies to note: Autonomy, Endeca, Exalead, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Recommind, Vivisimo. (There are others.)
Unfortunately the report does not describe the specific capabilities of the vendors.
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