Partnership Addresses Need for Real-Time Enterprise Search

Simplexo, the open source enterprise search specialist, and Ingres, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, announced today a partnership that will change not only the way, but the speed in which people search and retrieve critical business information. Joint customers will benefit with access to Ingres Database, a high performance enterprise grade open source database, coupled with Simplexo’s ability to securely search all enterprise information with a single click. This adds up to users being able to make informed business decisions faster and with greater accuracy.

According to the Butler Group, a leading UK analyst firm, employees spend up to 20 hours each week searching for information. The cost of working with inadequate information and inefficient search capabilities is one of the most pressing threats to any competitive business. For example, the financial services sector has vast amounts of information scattered across the enterprise which needs to be accessed via a single interface and with the appropriate access controls. High security, which is role-based and assigned on a user by user basis, is key when dealing with the financial sector.

Simplexo provides “single click’ information retrieval, enabling companies to simultaneously and securely search both structured and unstructured data sources in real-time. By joining forces with Ingres, the real time enterprise search capability of Simplexo Enterprise will complement the Ingres IceBreaker BI Appliance, which delivers all an organization’s business intelligence needs from reporting, analysis, and dashboards to complete data integration with existing systems. The partnership with Simplexo also further compliments the current partnerships Ingres has in place with JasperSoft in business intelligence and Alfresco in content management.

“Simplexo and Ingres demonstrate the superior innovation and reduced costs of the open source model,” said Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO of Ingres. “This partnership delivers extraordinary results with a simple low cost approach. We anticipate great interest among our customers in the search capabilities that Simplexo offers, especially among our many customers in the financial sector . Simplexo addresses critical business requirements, such as compliance and risk management, with a low cost approach that is simple to implement and operate.”

“We are excited to be working with a leading infrastructure software player such as Ingres whose customers operate in a highly regulated market and need to adhere to strict corporate governance policies,” said Alistair Handyside, CEO of Simplexo. “Our partnership will address the strategic need for real-time enterprise search within the financial services market, where immediate, secure access to historical information is not only a business priority but also a regulatory necessity.”