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September 21, 2015 · 8:51 AM

X1 Wins Key Honor at VMworld: 3rd Major Award for 2015

By John Patzakis and Barry Murphy

X1 continues to garner widespread acclaim in 2015 for providing enterprise end-users with the fastest, easiest-to-use, cloud-enabled enterprise search software from any device through X1 Search Virtual. The experts in this domain recognize that X1 is providing a game-changing capability in this new era of enterprise virtualization and mobility, while traditional enterprise search tools are simply not built to support the new paradigm.

Earlier this month, a panel of judges comprised of recognized experts and editors chosen by TechTarget’sSearchServerVirtualization.com, awarded X1 “Best of VMworld 2015” Best of VMworld_500Awards Finalist in the Desktop Virtualization and End-User Computing Category. The judges evaluated 153 nominated products on display at VMworld 2015, and based the winners on innovation, value, performance, reliability, and ease of use.

X1 SearchTM Mobile brings X1’s award-winning user interface for desktop search to the mobile device, providing lightning-fast and secure search of email and files while on the go. This means users will no longer settle for the limited, slow and inconsistent “Exchange-only” searches of current smartphones. X1 Search Mobile enables full email (including archived emails) and desktop search from the mobile device, keeping workers productive no matter where they are. Notably, X1 was the only software provider at VMworld 2015 offering enterprise search for virtual environments with real time access from any device. High level discussions with Gartner and other key industry experts and executives confirm that X1 is far ahead of the pack in delivering this unique and disruptive capability.

How disruptive? According to Jack Madden, noted analyst and blogger on enterprise mobility and end-user computing, in a live video interview, “You know what else I like about [X1 Search Mobile] is it can …take the place of enterprise file synch and share products, because that is all your files in the background, and not to mention all your inbox (emails and attachments) and they’re right there, mobile enabled, with a policy around them. There is a lot there.”

This capability is made possible by X1’s virtual “always-on” index enabling access to your files from any device, which is the main use case for Box, Dropbox, and other EFSS tools. But with X1, you also access your emails from the same interface, with built in X1 search and an overall better user experience. And best of, this can all be accomplished through an enterprise’s existing on-premise virtual or private cloud infrastructure.

The 2015 recognition began in April, when Gartner named X1 a Cool Vendor in EndPoint Computing. According to Gartner’s report, “X1 can improve end-user experience on hosted virtual desktops by maintaining Windows and Outlook searches, which are often lost in the transition away from traditional PCs.” Platforms like VDI and DaaS hold great promise, but the user experience with VDI is often sub-optimal, thereby hindering widespread adoption. X1’s recognition by Gartner as a Cool Vendor validates our innovation in cloud and virtual environments, as well as our commitment to provide a stellar end-user experience.

And for the third award, PC Magazine published a very strong product review for X1 Search (version 8).  X1 won the desktop search category with the prestigious “PC Mag Editor’s Choice” designation. Some key takeaway quotes:

  • Basic setup for the program couldn’t be simpler
  • The program’s search capability is impressive, both for its ease of use and its sophisticated features
  • If you can take advantage of X1 Search’s ability to extend its reach to SharePoint or cloud-based email and Box, or make use of its ability to build much more sophisticated search phrases than Lookeen can handle, X1 Search is the obvious choice.

To get three major awards in one year is obviously gratifying and validates that the approach to support enterprise virtualization and mobility through a stellar search experience is a winning strategy to support our customers as they rapidly embrace the next generation desktop. We look forward to continuing to deliver an unmatched search experience across data anywhere, on any device.

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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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