The Search component provides advanced data services for querying, locating, and analyzing your enterprise data. It automatically processes, locates, and analyzes the most relevant information in databases, centralized repositories, libraries, file systems, network drives, and existing document management systems in your enterprise.
The Search component:
Extracts core concepts found in unstructured data such as Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and text files
Supports all forms of digital information such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, plain text files, Adobe Acrobat PDF files, and HTML
Automatically captures and aggregates all of your unstructured data
Enables search in natural language
Sybase Search includes a central hub server, several satellite containers that include the indexing and search modules, and a Web administration server to provide the search capabilities for your environment.
For more information about Sybase Search, view the product manuals on the SyBooks CD for Sybase Search. For more information about how you can use the Search component for data integration, see “Example 1: Improving data retrieval using concept-based searches”.