Looks like a lot of this is aimed at internal/intranet search. (which makes me wonder if there’s a Banner integration.)

– SharePoint integration (no relevance for us)

– multilingual (does that have any use for us? translation could be helpful, I think. will want to ask about that for potential international students)

– PDF preview (which is pretty sexy)

– assist & suggest, dynamic navigation with entity recognition (controlled vocabularies)

– searches file shares?

– moderated social settings, subject matter experts can recommend results at the point of search w/out having to do manual keymatch, with a moderation queue.

– search of subject can also include a list of experts.

– search across sites (sharepoint, wiki, etc) and other repositories (document mgmt, database, filesystem)

– entity recognition is like filtering – by author, creation date, file type, or attributes set on the back end

– pull info about experts from LDAP (or Sharepoint profiles) to build a profile page. (this feels a lot like intranet in a box)

– that answers the translation question – individual can choose to translate previewed PDFs from any (supported) language to any other.

Gut check: overkill for our needs unless we did something REALLY big with it internally.