Web searches are about getting to information quickly. In most cases, we don’t know where that information exists or in what form it exists. When we search, we expect to see information in different forms from different locations. In the consumer world, this works. But what about the business world? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.

In a business context, we have a search box specific to every, single application — one for email, one for contacts, one for documents, etc — a separate search engine for each business application.

What if we had a single search engine that

• Searches across entire business’ data, across multiple business applications
• Has a deeper understanding of the inter-working of these business apps to display relevant information
• Doesn’t just provide a bunch of links that redirects you to another app, but offers integrated and contextual action items relevant to what you are searching for
• Understands your prvileges and permissions in various business applications and presents only the relevant search results
• Is multi-dimensional; not only searches for ‘content’, but goes beyond it?

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