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- Northern Trust Increases Accuracy and Relevance of Intranet Searches With the Google Search Appliance and User-Added Results
- Northern Trust is a global leader in delivering investment management, asset and fund administration, and fiduciary and banking solutions to corporations, institutions, and affluent individuals. Northern Trust's need to deliver the latest information and forms was especially important for compliance with government regulations. Risks escalated when employees created and stored...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Intranet, Banking, Cloud Computing, Financial Services
- Case studies 2009-05-30
- MTCSC Google Search Appliance Deployment
- MTCSC specializes in applying integrated logistics support, enterprise solution development, engineering, technical and managerial expertise to solve the unique and complex challenges associated with Department of Defense DoD and Department of Homeland Security DHS operations. A MTCSC customer required rapid access to relevant data from 2500+ of data sources in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Search Appliance, Google Search, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Google Search Appliance, MTCSC, Cloud Computing, Search, Supply Chain, Networking, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-05-27
- The Nature Conservancy Opens Up Information to User Communities, Speeding Search and Cutting IT Costs, With the Google Search Appliance
- The Nature Conservancy TNC, now a million members strong, works around the world to protect and preserve ecologically important lands and waters. TNC manages an extensive intranet to help employees conduct research, consolidate organization-wide communications, and run the organization with utmost efficiency. Visitors to the public website and employees using...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, Information Technology, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, IT Cost, TNC, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2009-03-17
- Circle-E. Reduces Costs, Cuts Waste, and Redefines the Productivity of Field Service Maintenance Professionals With the Google Search Appliance
- Circle-E. has become one of Texas' most competitive and successful facilities service maintenance companies. Circle-E had an informal way of sharing information. It wanted to differentiate its services, improve efficiency and reduce costs by creating a centralized, searchable repository of information about customer facilities that field personnel could access using...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, PDAs, Cloud Computing, Databases, Handhelds, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-03-12
- Reuters.com Increases Search Use by 500% and Counting; Delivers Real-Time News, Stock Quotes, Images, Video and More With the Google Search Appliance
- As the world's largest multimedia news agency, Thomson Reuters produces trusted text, graphics, video, and pictures for media organizations, financial institutions, and consumers across the globe. Reuters.com required a robust search solution with the ability to search multiple sources of content and to query constantly-updated news databases in real-time. Reuters.com...
- Tags: Google Inc., Thomson Reuters Corp., Search Appliance, Stock, Video, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Investment, Corporate Communications, Finance, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-02-05
- FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Brings Speed and Pinpoint Accuracy to Website Search With the Google Search Appliance
- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority FINRA is the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States overseeing nearly 5,000 brokerage firms, 174,000 branch offices, and approximately 676,000 registered securities representatives. One of FINRA's biggest challenges is helping its many diverse audiences find the content they...
- Tags: Google Inc., FINRA, Financial, Search Appliance, Industry, Web Site, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2009-01-22
- Food and Drug Administration and the Google Search Appliance
- The FDA is a scientific, regulatory and public health agency that works to ensure the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, U.S. food supply, and cosmetics. For over 10 years, GlobalNet Services, Inc. has supported the Food and Drug Administration with technology integration...
- Tags: Google Inc., FDA, Search Appliance, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Federal Government, Government
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- The University of Florida and the Google Search Appliance
- The University of Florida UF is a public research university in Gainesville, Florida. Founded in 1853, UF is Florida's largest and oldest educational institution and is among the nation's most academically comprehensive public universities, with programs in fields ranging from agriculture to law. Providing fast and accurate access to relevant...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, University Of Florida, University, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, UF, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- PBS and the Google Search Appliance
- The Public Broadcasting Service PBS is a 34-year-old private nonprofit media enterprise, owned and operated by 349 U.S. public television stations. As with any site providing information that can change frequently, search is increasingly important to PBS. But budget constraints and earlier decisions had led the organization to rely on...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, PBS, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Xerox and the Google Search Appliance
- Generating $16 billion in revenue in 2002, Xerox Corporation is the global leader in the document management business. The Group intranet contains thousands of PDF and HTML files and a smaller number of Microsoft Office documents, all hosted on one Solaris server running Apache. It had a very small budget...
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Google Inc., Search Appliance, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Group Intranet, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Cloud Computing, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- The World Bank and the Google Search Appliance
- The World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of financial assistance for developing countries. The World Bank intranet contains documents in all the standard business applications and in every format from HTML to PDF. The search application made it difficult to access all sites across the network,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, World Bank Group, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, World Bank, Free Trade, Finance
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Discovery Communications and the Google Search Appliance
- Discovery Communications, Inc. DCI is a leading media and entertainment company. A previous search product was difficult for the Discovery web team to maintain, because it required extensive resources in order to update relevancy algorithms when new content was added to the network. Discovery web team needed to make a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, Discovery Communications Inc., Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Team Management, Cloud Computing, Search, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- FindLaw and the Google Search Appliance
- FindLaw, the most frequently visited legal site on the Internet, provides a comprehensive set of legal resources for legal professionals, businesses, students, and the public. Findlaw needed to ensure fast and relevant search results to help users accurately access the most important documents among its millions of pages of frequently...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, FindLaw, Portals, Web Technology, Performance Management, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- The National Park Service and the Google Search Appliance
- A bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior, The National Park Service NPS has protected America's parks and monuments since 1916. Federal government's proprietary search tool, FirstGov, was not delivering complete or accurate results, which meant the NPS was hearing from frustrated users. NPS deployed Google Search Appliance which...
- Tags: National Park Service, Google Inc., Search Appliance, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Kimberly-Clark to Implement Low-Cost, High-Performance Search Solutions to Geographies Worldwide With the Upgraded Google Search Appliance
- Kimberly-Clark is a leading global health and hygiene company employing more than 55,000 people worldwide and posting sales of $18.3 billion in 2007. With a workforce that needs ready access to information and documents of all kinds, Kimberly-Clark relies heavily on enterprise search solutions. Despite the high-volume requirements of the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Kimberly-Clark Corp., Search Appliance, High-performance, File Server, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, File Servers, Cloud Computing, Document Management, Storage Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-08-04
- Boats.net Achieves Rapid Return on Investment With Google Search Appliance
- Boats.net offers rock-bottom prices on outboard boats, outboard motors, and waverunners. The company is the number one OEM Yamaha outboard parts dealer in U.S. 7 years in a row and among the largest OEM outboard parts dealer for Honda, Mercury, Evinrude, and Johnson. The need for customers to hone in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, ROI, Shopping Cart, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Boats.net, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2008-08-04
- AAA Drives Results for Staff and Members Using the Google Search Appliance
- Since 1902, the not-for-profit AAA American Automobile Association has been an advocate for motorists and travelers, spearheading the movement for adequate roads and vehicle safety regulations. AAA employees use the company's intranet to communicate with others, learn about the association's many lines of business, find strategic documents, and collaborate on...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, Internet-site, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, AAA, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2008-04-22
- Students at Major University Rely on the Google Search Appliance to Rapidly Plan Course Schedules on the Web
- Founded in 1857, Illinois State University was the first public university in the state and is one of the Midwest's oldest institutions of higher education. The University was looking for a way to make it easier for students to conduct ad hoc searches about course information to plan their schedules....
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Search Appliance, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2008-04-22
- City of Virginia Beach Reduces Calls to Contact Center, Delivers Easier Access to Services
- Ten million visitors a year visit VBgov.com, the official website for the City of Virginia Beach. There, they can access online services, information, and forms related to everything from garbage collection to paying their water bill. VBgov.com visitors had a tough time finding the information needed. Also, the site's previous...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Access, Search Appliance, Contact Center, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2008-04-22
- Leading Teaching Hospital Improves Search Results, Streamlines IT Tasks With the Google Search Appliance
- The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH is Canada's leading addiction and mental health teaching hospital. Its mission is to improve the lives of those affected by addiction and mental health problems and promote the health of people in Ontario and beyond. CAMH wanted to enable users to search...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hospital, Search Appliance, Information Technology, Health Care, Google Search, Search Result, Google Search Appliance, Teaching Hospital, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-04-22
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