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Google OneBox Hooks up With Enterprise Apps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the google-urban-sprawl dept.

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?"

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  1. Love It by wolff000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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!

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  2. Re:google appliance by truthsearch · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    Nope. Put in smb:// into the setup to index your file shares. Put in 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.

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  3. Re:google appliance by Amouth · · Score: 2, Informative

    Personaly for our small company i just took a computer that didn't have a large load - put google desktop on it and DNKA tools http://dnka.com/ - i am jsut testing it out right now but am quite happey with it

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  4. Re:What will it mean? by bobthecow · · Score: 2, Informative

    I work in the sales reporting department for a large mutual fund firm. Most requests for reports we get come from people who don't know too much about the data they're interested in. Some of our business units can't even tell us how to define their business.

    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' type software I've seen so far has one critical flaw, and that is that it enables people who don't understand the data to get at it, and draw conclusions that are not generally accurate.

    If you haven't worked in this area, you'd be shocked at how convoluted it is, and about all the exceptions taken into account.