SWORD Announces First Google Search Appliance Connector for EMC Documentum Systems

Market Wire, May, 2006

SWORD Group (Paris: 018378), a leading IT integration organization with offices in Europe and the U.S., today announced the availability of the first connector for the Google Search Appliance that enables secure, direct indexing of content within EMC Documentum's market leading ECM platform.

With the new SWORD Google Search Appliance Connector, EMC Documentum customers now have the ability to deploy the power of Google search alongside the power of EMC Documentum -- leveraging the key strengths of both systems, providing a better search experience for users.

"This is an exciting opportunity for SWORD," said Heath Davies, COO of SWORD Group. "Google Search Appliance complements our Enterprise Security and Content Management expertise seamlessly. As a Google Enterprise Professional Partner we look forward to working with a great brand and a solid product, offering ECM users Google at Full-Power."

"With partners like SWORD, Google continues to find new ways to unlock the value of information inside the enterprise through search," said Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager, Google Enterprise. "Connecting to EMC Documentum through the SWORD Connector will prove hugely valuable to the thousands of companies using EMC Documentum."

The Google Search Appliance can provide search across information on web servers, file servers, relational databases and many popular business applications and make it instantly available from a single familiar search box. This enables better decision making, information sharing and efficiency by placing Google as the natural central point for information access.

The more valuable, sensitive, or important the content and surrounding business processes, the more likely that it is to be managed using Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. These systems add value by tightly controlling content, processes and security and until now it has been difficult for Google Search Appliance to access this content effortlessly. To provide fast, relevant, and secure search across all enterprise information assets, Google Search Appliance requires seamless integration with enterprise systems.

How It Works

SWORD's Google Search Appliance Connector for EMC Documentum provides search access to content stored within EMC Documentum. The systems administrator has full control over which content is exposed for indexing. This ensures that Google can search on relevant content and metadata information as well as content from other sources.

Benefits

Enterprise Search: SWORD's Google Search Appliance Connector facilitates true enterprise search through Google by providing access to the required content and metadata.

Security: Google's secure search technology means that SWORD's Google Search Appliance Connector always respects EMC Documentum's advanced security model.

Indexing: SWORD's Google Search Appliance Connector also provides full control over the indexing processes in synchronization with EMC Documentum's content.

Performance: Google and the SWORD Google Search Appliance Connector will introduce significant search performance benefits and help reduce the load on existing EMC Documentum environments.

Google at Full-Power: Provides Google's 'snippets' (textual extracts from the document), synonym dictionaries to enhance search relevance, suggested queries to help users refine search, spellchecking on queries to improve search accuracy and Google's OneBox for Enterprise to reach out to other enterprise application.

Scalability: Systems can be deployed from single repository single GSA configurations, and scale from there to full enterprise systems capable of supporting thousands of users and tens of millions of documents.

About SWORD:

As trusted IT supplier of compliance solutions to the enterprise, SWORD has successfully built an unsurpassed track record of technical expertise in specialized information management solutions.

SWORD delivers best of breed products through a network of partners and resellers, providing business benefits to its international customer base. SWORD is a Google Enterprise Professional Partner and EMC Documentum SST (Select Service Team) Partner.

Our experience as a specialist IT supplier, combined with domain knowledge and expertise has enabled the company to deliver a totally client centric solution.

For more information about SWORD Group please visit www.sword-group.com .

For more information about SWORD's GSA Connector for EMC Documentum visit http://www.sword-group.com/offerintro/index.html .

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 Google@sword-group.com  (Europe)
 Google@sword-inc.com  (Americas)
 Google@sword-uk.com  (UK and all other regions)

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