Google OneBox Hooks up With Enterprise Apps 77
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?"
Re:Just Google PR Blather (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:performance? (Score:2)
Re:performance? (Score:1)
Re:performance? (Score:2)
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What is this? (Score:2, Funny)
How long til MS blocks this? (Score:4, Interesting)
I assume that in order to access this sort of information, Google is searching through the stores on an Exchange server. I have not heard of any deals w/MS regarding the connector used to connect to Exchange thus I assume it is something Google has either written or had written for them. My question is, how long is it until MS "updates" Exchange under the guise of security or what have you in order to "F'n kill Google" (and their appliance)?
Just a thought.
Re:How long til MS blocks this? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How long til MS blocks this? (Score:2)
But you are on to something, which is unless you have the connectors, this this is worse than useless.
Re:How long til MS blocks this? (Score:1)
it is decently documented and functions well (abit slow with bad querys)
and i doubt that they would change the speck on it as it has been the same sence exchange 2k came out and if they did they would distroy way more than jsut google's tool. In fact i know many places that would rather change their network and handel security issues them selves than to install something that would screw up exlodb stuff, mainly because well it is a pain in the as
Re:How long til MS blocks this? (Score:2, Funny)
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:How long til MS blocks this? (Score:2)
Exchange has been around for a while, frankly, it seems like a no-brainer to "talk" to exchange from a non-MS app!
Re:How long til MS blocks this? (Score:2)
I would think that Microsoft would have to be *very* careful if they tried to modify the APIs that google were using
Just imagine that the API's that were changed include ones used by some of the major backup software for live exchange backups (basically needing to read all the information), or the parts of the APIs used by Virus Scanner vendors
Given the possible side effects, and that there are a lot of other applications using exchange APIs / connectors, it would be extremely difficult to do without seri
My Precious (Score:5, Funny)
OneBox to find them;
OneBox to bring them all,
and under Google bind them.
Re:My Precious (Score:1)
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Re:My Precious whooooo (Score:2)
What will it mean? (Score:4, Insightful)
More to do and more to play with - if it even gets much adaption.
Report development is not something you can substitute easily for with a search system like this. In complex reports it's both art and science. Such searches may make reports easier to GET.
Intelligence staff - someone has to gather, write up, and analyze the data. This isn't going away either. Besides, to be cynical, if a PHB is looking for intelligence, it'll have to be provided by someone else.
So - at best a neat new way to find stuff people are already doing.
Re:What will it mean? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What will it mean? (Score:2)
Re:What will it mean? (Score:1)
Re:What will it mean? (Score:2)
Re:What will it mean? (Score:1)
Re:What will it mean? (Score:2, Informative)
I'm not too worried about something like this. It would help users to find the reports we've already published (so that I don't have to direct them to our web site for the third time this week) but that's about it.
All of the 'business intelligence' ty
Re:What will it mean? (Score:2)
As with the public web... (Score:5, Insightful)
From experience, a lot of employee data in HR/Payroll/Health systems is poorly managed, and currently "secure" only under a thin veneer of obscurity. The widely disparate database systems usually used by various groups (some developed inhouse, others contracted in) serve to make it more difficult for potential "information seekers" to access poorly managed systems.
If this highly capable appliance makes Intranet searches as simple, widely accessible and effective as Google on the public Internet, we can expect to see all kinds of security/privacy problems cropping up on intranets, which were hidden uptil now.
Re:As with the public web... (Score:2)
Re:As with the public web... (Score:2)
Personally Oneboxes didn't sell well before, and I don't think that this will help the sell that much more. So IMO this will have little or no effect. Report Designers will continue to make their complex reports, and business intelligence folks will continue to analyze business and sale trends as they did before.
Security's shot in the arm (Score:4, Funny)
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:Security's shot in the arm (Score:3, Funny)
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...
Means nothing for corporate report producers (Score:4, Insightful)
Unless the information is formatted (sorted, ordered, grouped, linked) and organised (styled) the way a business report usually is, the answer to the question is "Absolutely Nothing".
There is a reason why, for the most part, the interface to website searches is not SQL based, and corporate reports don't rely on text searches.
I suspect (not having RTFA) this box is about the providing the ability to perform Ad hoc queries against all sources of corporate data (word, excel, PDF, SQL databases/datasources etc) that data first having been spidered by a mini google in the box.
Also, this probably isn't just about providing "PHBs" this ability. Ordinary people within an organisation often need to be able to search for docs, emails etc based on a piece of text - which is possible with things like Microsofts Index Server, but probably Index Server (or whatever it is these days) isn't as efficient as a dedicated googlebox is.
Actually, we were looking at this earlier today (Score:2)
This seems to fix this. For example, if someone types in a name, we can create a custom web page that talks to the search, sending back the matches from our employee directory. It does seem to take a bit of work to build each link into your databases, but it's probably worthwhile for the big o
Re:Means nothing for corporate report producers (Score:2)
Even the "vaunted US Navy" has multiple descriptive terms for ONE piece of equipment, and in the supply and maintenance lines, one engineering department on ONE ship of the SAME CLASS might have separate terms for a faulty ci
What does it mean to YOU and ME? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:What does it mean to YOU and ME? (Score:1)
google appliance (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:google appliance (Score:4, Informative)
Nope. Put in smb:// into the setup to index your file shares. Put in http:/// [http] into the setup to index web pages. The appliance has always been able to search word docs and such on your file shares. It's the integration into Oracle apps and other "enterprise systems" that's new.
Re:google appliance (Score:2, Informative)
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Your data... (Score:1)
I see ScuttleMonkey has a nasty infection, good luck with that
All MY records are on paper, cause my doctors are old.
this is so exciting (Score:1)
HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status
Love It (Score:5, Informative)
The link (Score:1)
Re:The link (Score:2)
Google OneBox can't find it's own page.... (Score:2)
Google
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The requested URL
Re:Google OneBox can't find it's own page.... (Score:1)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-56923707
It's not a commune... (Score:1)
Google just playing catch-up in enterprise search (Score:1)
Any worthwhile enterprise search has been able to search across multiple data types and sources long before this "news" by Google.
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All your base are belong to OneBox. (Score:1)
Be Careful With All That Power! (Score:5, Funny)
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:Be Careful With All That Power! (Score:2)
Re:Be Careful With All That Power! (Score:2)
Yahoo reporting on google (Score:1)
What the "one box" is (Score:2)
This announcement looks to be the integration of some relevant services (and possibly your own - I didn't watch the video, and the weblog post is mum on details) into the search appliance Google has been offering for qui
I know what it means... (Score:2)
What does it mean? (Score:2)
Well, at a guess I'd say yet another round of "rightsizing".
Mashups in search results (Score:1)
What will staff do? Run the searches... (Score:2)
Yeah, they will run the searches and print out the results in a pretty format. Same as always.