Google OneBox Hooks up With Enterprise Apps

TopShelf writes "Google's OneBox for Enterprise has now been integrated to multiple top-notch business applications, including Oracle, SAS, Cognos, and Salesforce.com, according to this morning's press release on Yahoo! News. PHB's everywhere will soon be able to Google their way to the information they need - what will that mean for corporate report developers and business intelligence staff?"

What is this?

[Anonymous Coward]

What is this google thing that keeps getting mentioned everywhere, and why should i care?

My Precious

[PineHall]

OneBox to search them all;
OneBox to find them;
OneBox to bring them all,
and under Google bind them.

Re:What will it mean?

[Anonymous Coward]

The PHB will see it and think it needs a different font, and perhaps the corp logo - rinse and wash.... center it, etc....

Security's shot in the arm

[955301]

I was alway of the opinion that if managers in larger corporations had more effective intranet indexes they would be excreting masonry objects from their posterior orifices. Development teams and internal projects publish a lot of intersting and sensitive stuff - test data sets with real customer information, log's with ssn's embedded in them, project contact and role information that any wardriver would love to have.

I bet the infosec departments are about to pop some champaigne corks over this one...

Re:How long til MS blocks this?

[scolby]

The article failed to mention another important feature of the googlebox...it was in Beta for several years while Google ensured that its case was completely resistant to flying chairs.

Be Careful With All That Power!

[oni]

With the google search appliance, you're supposed to point it at your company's intranet, then it starts indexing the pages it finds and gives you a web page (let's call this "google search appliance web page") from which you do your searches.

That's the way it's supposed to work. But if you want to, you can point the google search appliance at google.com, and have it index that.

Then you go to google.com and give it the address of the "google search appliance web page" so that google starting indexing *your* appliance.

And that is guaranteed to tear a whole in the fabric of spacetime, ending the universe as we know it.

Re:How long til MS blocks this?

[Xichekolas]

You incorrectly assume that MS updates their products...

Even a 'critical flaw' like allowing Google to access Exchange will take nine months and three KB articles before it will be 'fixed'...

Re:Security's shot in the arm

[davidsyes]

Well, to borrow words from Data...

I guess these PHBs adn their devs will be awake late "igniting the late night combustible petroleum products"... trying to rectify the security through obscurity thingy...