Enterprise Search

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What Does Enterprise Search Mean?

Enterprise search is a system that facilitates enterprise data research through one or more sources.

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Techopedia Explains Enterprise Search

Enterprise and Web search technologies are similar. For example, each provides Web or desktop search capabilities from one computer.

Enterprise search systems have the following unique characteristics:

  • Arranged and archived data retrieved from varied sources, including file systems, databases, document management systems (DMS), intranet and email
  • User permissions defined by security access controls
  • Combined structured and unstructured data search results
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Margaret Rouse
Technology Specialist

Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.