Technical Specifications

Next-generation platform designed for today’s complex data environments

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With Coveo Enterprise Search, users obtain rapid access to all of the documents stored in file systems, email servers, intranets, enterprise applications, databases, and websites. The solution is based on industry standards, and offers uncompromised security and accuracy of results for an unrivalled user experience.

Search and Navigation

Using sophisticated algorithms and advanced linguistic techniques, Coveo’s solution offers advanced search capabilities, including:

  • Powerful search facets to drill down and navigate through results. Search for documents by date or specific fields such as title, location, size, author, keywords and phrases, as well as custom metadata and XML data
  • A powerful query syntax, including Boolean and other search operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR) as well as exact phrase
  • An advanced search page with easy-to-use search filtering options
  • Query correction using a spell check that is based on indexed content
  • Restricted searches for specific groups of information sources, to improve relevancy
  • A dynamic identification of groupings or clusters of related documents pertaining to the original query term

Unrivaled User Experience

  • The rich search interface makes extensive use of AJAX technologies to provide inline document summaries and concepts, thumbnails, pop-up quick view of documents, RSS feeds
  • Search facets allow users to drill down into result sets by document type, author, cluster, or any metadata
  • Quick view, concept and summarization tools identify document summaries and extract key concepts, allowing users to quickly identify document content
  • Users may change preferences and customize the look and feel of the result set
  • Offers alternatives to misspelled queries based on indexed terms

Results

Coveo Enterprise Search delivers accurate results, contextual excerpts and summarization, as well as highlighted query terms. Additional capabilities include:

  • A rich search interface that makes extensive use of AJAX technologies to provide a more responsive feel, featuring inline document summaries and concepts, thumbnails, pop-up quick view and RSS feeds
  • Intuitive search navigation, live indexing and quick views of search results from SharePoint libraries gets users to the right information in record time
  • Search results sorted by relevance, date or any other metadata (i.e. price, client name, URL address)
  • Contextual excerpts, key concepts and an intelligent summary for each result
  • Highlighted query terms in titles, summaries and contents of the results pages
  • Automatic removal of duplicate results using advanced similarity algorithms
  • “Quick View” feature to view cached versions of documents in HTML format with query terms highlighted and located with a single click
  • Customized secure results pages to meet the requirements of various user roles
  • Page based, context-sensitive help for all search functionalities

Supported file formats

Coveo Enterprise Search provides one of the broadest arrays of connectors in the industry to connect with virtually any system and index hundreds of types of file formats, including:

  • Adobe PDF, Audio/Video Text Extraction, Corel WordPerfect, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Lotus Notes, Picture Metadata Extraction (BMP, GIF, JPEG, Exif, PNG, TIFF, ICON, WMF, EMF), Picture Text Extraction (TIFF, TIFF-FX, PCX/DCX, BMP, JPEG, PNG, MAX, PDF), Plain Text, RTF, XML, ZIP, Compressed files (RAR, CAB), Raster image files (CSF), Help files (CHM), Visio files, Autodesk Design Web Format (DWF), Inventor documents, Mindmanager, Postscripts, StarOffice, OpenOffice, AutoCAD (DWG ), ASP, ASPX, BAT, HTM, JHTML, JSP, LNK, MHTML, MSG, NSF, ODC, PHP, PUB, STM, TIF, URL, XLT
  • Coveo’s flexible, modular platform allows support for additional file formats to be added quickly and easily