Welcome to the Endeca Information Access Platform

This section introduces the Endeca Information Access Platform.

Introduction
Endeca was founded on the simple idea that users want to explore data interactively in real time, relying on a friendly, intuitive interface, regardless of the scale and complexity of the underlying data.
Endeca’s market solutions
Endeca offers a series of market solutions built on top of the Endeca Information Access Platform.
Endeca IAP components
The Endeca IAP has three major components.
Endeca MDEX Engine query results
All query results returned from the Endeca MDEX Engine contain two types of information.
Two types of queries
The Endeca IAP provides two types of queries: navigation queries and keyword search queries.
Logical versus physical structure
The data in an Endeca application has both a physical structure and a logical structure that support your MDEX Engine queries.
Reference implementations
In addition to the three basic Endeca IAP components, your Endeca distribution also contains a set of reference implementations that implement many of Endeca’s features.