Swiss solution for improved intranet search
Employees lose up to 20 percent of their working time searching the company intranet. A new solution from Hulbee, a software provider in eastern Switzerland, aims to change that. This is urgently needed, also because Google is taking its solution for company-internal searches off the market. Hulbee is supported by Swisscom in sales and implementation.
Searching for content on the Internet has improved significantly in recent years. Not so on the company intranet: here, time seems to have stood still in many places. It is still difficult to distinguish the essential results here from numerous superfluous search results - almost like in the early days of the Internet. These problems are constantly getting worse with the exponentially growing amount of data in companies: Every two years, the amount of data available in the company doubles. For employees, the search thus becomes a search for a needle in a haystack.
Swiss search engine for intranet
Now Swisscom, together with the Swiss software provider Hulbee, is launching a central solution that massively simplifies finding relevant documents - regardless of where they are stored - within the company itself, making it comparable to searching the Internet. "Enterprise Search" is - as it is called - a flexible and scalable solution that can be implemented not only internally, but also on the company's own website or external online store. The advantage for companies: They can tailor the search to their needs and have the guarantee of not finding external advertising in the results. In addition, the customer chooses whether to use "Enterprise Search" hosted in Swisscom data centers or on-premise on the company's own servers.
20 percent more productive
Until now, one of the few solutions for companies was the "Google Search Appliance": a hardware solution for using Google search technology for your own intranet. But this product will be taken off the market this year. The need for new in-house search solutions is therefore great. Not least because poor internal search reduces productivity massively: employees spend up to one fifth of their working time searching for internal information. While many companies have recognized this - with newly introduced document filing systems, however, they have achieved exactly the opposite: ever new filing locations, different file formats and often parallel cloud services only make the search even more confusing. Andreas Wiebe, CEO of Hulbee AG, says: "Although there are approaches to solutions, they often fail to establish themselves due to a lack of user-friendliness. The reason for this is simple: In private life, people are used to querying the search engine even for addresses and domain names. Why should one switch back to directories and filing systems in the professional world? We want to close this gap with our offer".
"Enterprise Search" focuses on intuitive use for the employee, which leads quickly and reliably to the target: Regardless of the storage location and file type, all information is searched and, if desired, automatically summarized. How this works is explained by the CEO of Hulbee in a Video.
More information about the product: www.swisscom.ch/enterprise-search
