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Byline: Mark Chillingworth
Endeca sets sights on BI arena
Mark Chillingworth
Enterprise search vendor Endeca has announced its latest platform and signalled its intentions to take on traditional rivals in the search market, as well as business intelligence (BI) vendors.
Endeca Information Access Platform 5.0 is a major release for the Florida-based company and incorporates some major new search technology. "The average business information user has been relegated to a dashboard for business intelligence," said Jeff Boehm, director of BI market strategy for Endeca.
"End users are looking for a more simplistic tool," he said, adding that the company believes this latest platform will make it a rival to large, established BI vendors such as Cognos and Business Objects.
Endeca has entered into this space because it believes that existing BI tools are complex and require heavy integration by the IT departments, as well as significant training for end users to successfully retrieve and use the data they generate.