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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?"

6 of 77 comments (clear)

  1. My Precious by PineHall · · Score: 5, Funny

    OneBox to search them all;
    OneBox to find them;
    OneBox to bring them all,
    and under Google bind them.

  2. As with the public web... by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...I expect deployment of such a capable search appliance to unmask all kinds of security loopholes within current corporate intranets.

    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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  3. Re:How long til MS blocks this? by scolby · · Score: 4, Funny

    The article failed to mention another important feature of the googlebox...it was in Beta for several years while Google ensured that its case was completely resistant to flying chairs.

  4. 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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  5. Re:Just Google PR Blather by truthsearch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  6. Be Careful With All That Power! by oni · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.