12 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

This chapter describes Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) in the WebCenter release. It includes the following topic:

Section 12.1, "Oracle Secure Enterprise Search"

12.1 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

The section includes the following topics:

Section 12.1.1, "Overview of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search"
Section 12.1.2, "Oracle SES in WebCenter"

12.1.1 Overview of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

Oracle SES enables a secure, high quality, easy-to-use search across all enterprise information assets. Key features include:

The ability to search and locate public, private, and shared content across intranet Web servers, databases, files on local disk or on file-servers, IMAP e-mail, document management systems, applications, and portals
Highly secure crawling, indexing, and searching
A simple, intuitive search interface leading to an excellent user-experience
Excellent search quality, with the most relevant items for a query shown first, even when the query spans diverse public or private data sources
Analytics on search results and understanding of usage patterns
Sub-second query performance
Ease of administration and maintenance leveraging your existing IT expertise

12.1.2 Oracle SES in WebCenter

Oracle SES is provided in WebCenter on a companion DVD. It must be installed separately from that DVD. All documentation for Oracle SES is included in the Oracle SES installation.