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October 13, 2015 · 8:57 AM

A Series of Firsts: How X1 Sets the Standard for the New Enterprise Search Market

by Barry Murphy

The new world of IT demands that enterprise software support varying infrastructures – traditional managed data centers, the cloud, hybrid and virtual environments.  As a result, old-school approaches that once seemed logical no longer work in today’s reality.  For example, tightly-coupled search appliances that marry hardware and software together no longer meet the requirements of enterprises that need to make distributed workers more productive no matter what kind of device they are on.  It’s a new world for enterprise search and traditional solutions will have a very hard time adapting and scaling.

X1 is ready for the IT reality of always-on, virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments and business mobility.  This is evidenced by two “firsts” that X1 is proud to announce.  First, X1 is the first search application with an app publicly available in an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) app store.  X1 Search Mobile is available in the AirWatch marketplace.  Given the rapid move to mobile devices for work, this is no small news.  Google just announced on Friday that searching the web is now predominantly done from mobile phones.

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It’s clear, then, that enterprise search from the mobile device is now an essential requirement for business professionals.  The mobile search app is important, but what X1 is building out is much more than that.  In order to effectively deliver enterprise search from the mobile device requires having the back-end infrastructure to support full enterprise search in virtual environments.  It also requires supporting the next-generation desktop (VDI or DaaS) where the users live. X1 has uniquely mastered such back-end infrastructure with the only desktop search (VDI or otherwise) and enterprise search solution that are VMware Ready certified.

The second “first” that X1 is proud of is the listing of X1 Rapid Discovery in the Amazon AWS Marketplace.  Again, this is no small feat – this is the first enterprise-grade search and eDiscovery application to be available in the AWS Marketplace.

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Organizations storing content in AWS can now get full-featured enterprise search and eDiscovery deployed right next to their content.  And, if these organizations store other content locally, they can deploy Rapid Discovery in their own data center as well and have a single-pane-of-glass across all information no matter where it lives.

X1 will continue to provide solutions that work in the infrastructures that organizations utilize today.  The traditional approach to search will not work, but with X1, companies will have the flexibility to deploy into any environment and give users a powerful search experience on any device.  That is a powerful productivity tool – and businesses require worker productivity the same way humans require oxygen.  It is a new enterprise search market out there and X1 is uniquely positioned to lead the charge.

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August 28, 2015 · 11:49 AM

Mobile Productivity Now a Reality Thanks to X1 Search Mobile

X1 is exhibiting at VMworld this week and it is impossible to avoid the theme of mobility.  There is a whole track at the conference devoted to “the mobile enterprise.”  Given that the workforce is mobile more than ever and using multiple devices in any location, workers need access to applications and information on-the-go.  It is not surprising, therefore, that folks coming by the X1 booth are intrigued by X1 SearchTM Mobile.  IDC estimates that, by 2020, mobile workers will make up 72.3% of the workforce – the need for mobile productivity is and will be very real.

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X1 SearchTM Mobile enables an instantaneous and secure search of millions of documents and years of email from a smartphone, a game-changing capability for today’s mobile workforce. It brings X1’s award-winning user interface to the mobile device, providing lightning-fast and precise search of email and files while on the go. No longer will users need to settle for the limited, slow and inconsistent “Exchange-only” searches of current smartphones. X1 Search Mobile enables full email (including archived emails and PSTs) and desktop search from the mobile device, keeping workers productive no matter where they are.

In today’s “always on” environment, X1 Search Mobile allows users to quickly and effortlessly find and take action on the information they are looking for regardless of where it is and when they might be looking for it.  Imagine being at the airport, with your laptop packed away and a client calls with questions on a proposal you sent.  You don’t have time to pull out your laptop, fire it up, and pull up the proposal.  With X1 Search Mobile, though, you can quickly find that proposal right your phone, pull it up within seconds, and answer the important questions your client has.

The first question that many have when it comes to mobile information access is, “what about security?  Will this be an access control nightmare?”  With X1 Search Mobile, the answer is easy – this is a search application built for the enterprise.  It integrates with leading Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) tools such as AirWatch and Good Technologies so that security is built in from the ground up.  In fact, by using the EMM security layer, X1 Search Mobile can help organizations enforce BYOD policies.  For example, if an organization wants users to only do corporate email in the email app of the EMM provider, X1 Search Mobile can enable a post-search action that launches the EMM email app versus the native email client of the phone.

With X1 Search Mobile, true mobile productivity is possible.  Workers can have search precision light-years beyond what current smartphones offer natively, with a single-pane-of-glass view across email, desktop files, SharePoint and other enterprise content on the mobile device.  Within this user interface, workers will experience fast-as-you-type search, full-fidelity preview of attachments with hit highlighting and infinite scrolling of search results (no need to “continue search on server”).

This approach to mobile search is ground-breaking and fills a huge productivity void in today’s mobile enterprise.  X1 Search Mobile provides an intuitive user interface to email that goes well beyond the native search of the mobile device while also providing access to desktop files, SharePoint, and other critical sources of content. X1 enables true mobile productivity.  While other search vendors offer a vague mobile SDK so that consulting companies can build search apps, X1 offers the real thing – a mobile search application that gives users access to their critical information and enables mobile productivity.  Learn more and see the product in action here.

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September 10, 2014 · 8:33 AM

End-User Computing & Search Go Hand-In-Hand

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by Barry Murphy

Last week, John Patzakis here at X1 blogged about the VMworld 2014 event and how it has become the Comdex for enterprise IT.  I was at the show and it was very clear that end-users are the future of IT.  The trend has been talked about for quite some time and is commonly called the consumerization of IT.  The heat around that topic has tended to focus on devices and not as much on what is behind information access on those devices.  But, as BYOD takes off and mobility becomes increasingly important, enterprises care more and more about the flow and availability of information.  Why?  Because easy access to information is critical to the end-user acceptance of enterprise IT offerings; when users cannot quickly find what they are looking for, they reject what IT rolls out to them.  Without that end-user acceptance, there is no chance for a positive ROI on any IT project.

End-user experience is so key that VMware has named a division of its company “End User Computing.”  That EUC unit made several major acquisitions in the last year, including Airwatch and Desktone.  This is because technology providers need to win the battle with end-users.  For an example of a company that built its business on the backs of end-users and leveraged those relationships to bully its way into enterprise IT, look no further than Apple.  As VDI users have learned, it is critical to bake search requirements into virtual desktop deployments from the get-go in order to ensure an optimal user experience.  And, as Brian Katz points out in his blog, the same thing will hold true with mobile – usability will be key.  That is why we at X1 are so excited about the future.  X1’s user interface for search is second to none.  And, users actually rave about it.

In my days as an industry analyst, I rarely had technology users raving about the tools they were using.  And, I never ever had an enterprise search user tell me that their solution solved the challenge of finding information quickly.  The rabid users of X1 have been an eye opener for me.  In fact, an X1 customer recently polled its users and virtually every user said that X1 is easy to learn and use (no easy feat for a piece of enterprise software) and over 70% of users described their experience with X1 as very positive or positive.  Those numbers are unheard of in terms of technology satisfaction.

With what I’ve learned from my days as an analyst and in my time here at X1, I’ve come up with some ways to approach enterprise search in a way that is both IT and user-friendly.  We will share the knowledge in a webinar on October 9 at 1pm ET / 10am PT.  We’ve titled it, “Making Enterprise Search Actually Work by Putting User Experience First.”

In this “no-death-by-PowerPoint” webinar, attendees will not only learn, but actually see how to deploy enterprise search solutions in ways that make both end-users and IT departments happy.  This webinar will demonstrate both why and how to put end-user experience first.   Specifically, attendees will learn:

  • Why the human brain is the best analytical engine for business productivity search
  • How federation can save IT time, money, and headaches
  • How to best deploy search solutions in all IT infrastructures
  • How to achieve ROI on enterprise search in ways never seen in the past
  • That search can be like BASF – it can make many other technology deployments better, including VDI, SharePoint, and Enterprise Vault

I will be presenting on this webinar and will be joined by some special guests to be named later.  Come learn why search and end-user computing go hand-in-hand.

Register for the webinar here >

 

 

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