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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?"
can it make Oracle searches faster than Oracle tools?
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What is this google thing that keeps getting mentioned everywhere, and why should i care?
"With Google OneBox for Enterprise, corporate information -- such as contact and calendar info, HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status -- is now instantly searchable through a Google search box as part of the Google Search Appliance."
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.
OneBox to search them all;
OneBox to find them;
OneBox to bring them all,
and under Google bind them.
what will that mean for corporate report developers and business intelligence staff?"
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.
"The Sage treasures Unity and measures all things by it" - Lao Tzu
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.
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... most geeks still wish they could hook up with even one box!
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...
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
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?
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.
It means WE have to produce more documentation - in all sorts of stupid templated forms.
the company i work for bought one of these.. its sitting upstairs gathering dust. The fact is, unless your a larger company indexing all the documents you have on your local intranet isn't necessary, not to mention most smaller companies keep companty documents located in smb shares or on file servers and not on the intranet accessible via http, which, afaik, is a requirement for the google box to index the files.
The default password to all your data is now "goole0wnsU"...
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HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status
I recently deployed the small google box in my organization and it works great. I no longer have to dig for files because somebody in accounting doesn't remember where they saved a file. It makes my job easier and leaves me more time to play City of Heroes at work. Thank you Google!
WTF?
Ironically enough the link is to Yahoo...
Maybe they aren't using it because it didn't "plug into" their "enterprise" business apps. Now it does. I'd say that's a major selling point.
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To learn more about Google OneBox for Enterprise and see a Google Video of what executives at some of these companies have to say about it, please go to http://www.google.com/enterprise/onebox.
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We're pretty unhappy about the Microsoft search built into IIS, which we've used for years. We got a Google test box last year and were reasonably happy with it, though the database-integration wasn't that great.
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 ones.
Google is fast becoming the "killer app". And of course Microsoft has a lot to be worried about. But not just Microsoft, virtually every single other software house should be concerned as well, including many that the OSS world "likes". Google may very well become the next "extend and embrace" monster... Sure they have very smart people working for them. And they are working for them, it's not a collectively run commune or something. I believe the warm fuzzy Google will soon fade away...
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Searches are for old people.
This is just Google finally doing what Other Enterprise Search vendors have been doing for years.
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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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.
Yahoo is reporting on Google's success? Did Yahoo realize that the way to win readers is to talk good about the crowd's favorite? Or did they hide a secret message in their article, like "oohay esu"?
The "one box" is the part on some Google results where you get the News (like searching for "italian election"), or the Calculator ("500 mph in km/h"), or the Image results (can't think of a good one) etc, on the top, before the search results, because they're likely what you're looking for.
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 quite a while - in other words, the "one box" feature brought to the appliance, not a new box altogether, as one might (logically) infer. (They *did* launch a new version of the "Mini" search appliance, however.)
This is an interesting app, but unless I'm missing something it really needs to be more robust to *really* be useful. Nice that I can find stuff, but this is not exactly an SQL query where I can get tables/reports/etc of what I'm looking for. It's a tool that answers a simple problem, but cannot easily answer complex ones. i.e. it gives data points, but not data clusters
It also seems that this is sort of a limited, sideways approach to what a Data Warehouse is supposed to be. I'm not sure what large production systems would think about giving access to an app like this. If database hits or I/O are any kind of issue, access will not be granted to this kind of app.
I'd be curious to play with it, but my expectations are kind of low.
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what will that mean for corporate report developers and business intelligence staff?
Well, at a guess I'd say yet another round of "rightsizing".
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I guess Google will have dem agog... and is going to ROYALLY piss off ms... especially if this appliance has any hardware (cough, cough, LINUX) parts to it...
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Think Flickr pictures of Salesforce.com contacts overlayed on a Yahoo Map. Disclaimer: I work for Salesforce.com.
Why is Yahoo reporting this news? Didn't they used to use the Google search engine as their underlying search facility? Yet they still mention Google in their news, hmmm...maybe I should Google Yahoo.
I think they spelled OneRing wrong.
You ever been e-mailed with a message to e-mail to someone else with no changes?
Yeah, they will run the searches and print out the results in a pretty format. Same as always.
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There's already an internet company that uses the name "OneBox." www.onebox.com So, I wouldn't be surprised if Google gets sued.
IANAL, but although that company uses the term for an integrated email/voicemail/fax system, where as Google is a search engine, there might be enough overlap for a lawsuit. They're both internet companies providing a service for users and enterprises. And I would think that OneBox trademarked their own name, and certainly had it long before Google introduced the term.
Google has jumped the shark.