Coveo Enterprise Search 4.0 Now Available

Within hours, enterprises can download advanced search application, and start searching across millions of documents securely.

ORLANDO, Fla., SHAREPOINT CONNECTIONS 2006, Quebec City, Quebec and Palo Alto, Calif., - April 3, 2006 -Coveo Solutions Inc., a leading provider of secure enterprise search software, today announced general availability of Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) 4.0 for secure, unified search across all documents and multimedia content located in file systems, databases, enterprise applications, email servers, intranets and Web sites. Coveo Enterprise Search for SharePoint (CESS) 4.0, a version seamlessly integrated with Microsoft SharePoint is also available. CESS 4.0 allows SharePoint customers to securely find information inside of SharePoint, as well as content in repositories in the corporate network.

This latest version of Coveo's award-winning search solution offers new capabilities including:

  • Improved user interface supporting faceted search, saved queries and a powerful interface editor.
  • The ability to securely search across Lotus Notes, Novell Netware, sound, image, and video files.
  • An open crawler API to index virtually any data source.
  • The ability to scale to more than 100 million documents with load-balancing and distributed indexing across multiple servers.
  • Personalized rating that enhances relevancy via user behavior tracking.
  • Collaborative ranking that enhances relevancy by applying personalized rating through groups of related individuals.
  • Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese and Korean language support.
  • Richer real-time analysis and comprehensive reporting for administrators.
  • 10-25% faster query and indexing performance over the previous release.

In use by NASA and the U.S. Navy, as well as AAA, AC Nielsen, Hewlett Packard, Eli Lilly, PricewaterhouseCoopers and more than 180 other enterprise customers worldwide, Coveo Enterprise Search empowers users to quickly and securely find the most relevant information on their corporate networks.

"We want to give SMEs and enterprise customers a choice for secure search that Google's appliance can't deliver," said Laurent Simoneau, president and CEO of Coveo. "Our products are specifically designed to address the needs of the enterprise. We're easier to deploy, more secure, more accurate and our applications fit seamlessly into current IT environments."

Unlike other leading vendors in the market, Coveo Enterprise Search 4.0 installs with "out-of-the box" document level security, and delivers transparent integration with permissions on Windows file system, SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange.

"Coveo 4.0 should raise the bar for mid-market and enterprise search," said Joel Martin, vice president of Enterprise Software for IDC Canada. "They have successfully built upon their proven indexing and retrieval processes and continue to deliver consumer-oriented search features, a sophisticated indexing engine and a user-friendly GUI that can be easily implemented and supported by companies needing flexibility, speed and accuracy."

About Coveo Solutions Inc.

Coveo Enterprise Search delivers secure, unified search across all documents and multi-media files located in file systems, databases, enterprise applications, email servers, intranets, and web sites. Coveo Enterprise Search delivers the best value in the marketplace with an award winning combination of out-of-the-box document level security, consumer style ease of use, unparalleled accuracy based on real-time file monitoring, concept extraction and summarization, fast deployment and minimal administration.

Coveo's enterprise clients include AAA, AMN Healthcare, Eli Lilly, Fannie Mae, International Paper, Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, NATO, NASA, AC Nielsen, and Verizon. For more information, and to test drive Coveo Enterprise Search free for 30 days, please visit www.coveo.com.