Thursday, May 05, 2005
UW-Madison Benchmark Study of Desktop Search Tools Evaluates 12 Leading Vendors:
"MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2005--For businesses looking to maximize employee productivity, a new generation of desktop search tools is emerging that will effortlessly help locate documents the same way search engines help find information on the Internet.
Desktop search technology was created a few years ago, but received a well-deserved boost in visibility when Google and Yahoo! entered the market last fall. The UW E-Business Consortium recently conducted a benchmark study of 12 of these emerging desktop search tools to help companies evaluate which product best fits their needs.
Results of Desktop Search Tool Benchmark Study
Using a systematic and objective testing protocol, the tools were evaluated along six attributes: usability, versatility, accuracy, efficiency, security, and enterprise readiness. The leader and best overall desktop search tool in each of these areas is Copernic 1.5 Beta with Coveo. It's intuitive and easy to use.
The second highest scoring tool is Yahoo! Desktop Search 1.1 Beta. Versatility of this desktop search tool is excellent and it supports more than 200 document types.
Our study found the third best tool to be Wizetech Archivarius 3000 3.14. It ranks very high in usability and efficiency, and provided the fastest search time among all the 12 desktop search tools analyzed.
Overall, our analysis reveals that while the desktop search tools show great promise for significant productivity gains, the technology is still immature due to a lack of security and overall manageability. However, instant messaging technology suffered similar initial setbacks but has grown to become a valuable business application. Similar results are anticipated for the desktop search market.
'Desktop search tools will help boost not only corporate productivity, but also creativity and innovation - Such technologies will become essential to compete in the emerging knowledge-based economy,' noted Dr. Raj Veeramani, UW-Madison Professor of Engineering & Business, and Director of the UW E-Business Institute and the UW E-Business Consortium.
The 'Benchmark Study of Desktop Search Tools' is available to the public free-of-cost through the UW E-Business Institute Web site www.uwebi.org. The study was conducted solely by the UW E-Business Consortium and was not funded or supported by desktop search companies or institutions.
The UW E-Business Consortium (the industry membership base of the UW E-Business Institute) is Wisconsin's premier organization that helps companies gain a competitive advantage through e-business. Our members - business executives and senior managers from the Midwest's leading companies - tap into world-class university resources and the collective experiences of this B2B and B2C group to address and share strategic e-business and information technology challenges, best practices and lessons learned."
"MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2005--For businesses looking to maximize employee productivity, a new generation of desktop search tools is emerging that will effortlessly help locate documents the same way search engines help find information on the Internet.
Desktop search technology was created a few years ago, but received a well-deserved boost in visibility when Google and Yahoo! entered the market last fall. The UW E-Business Consortium recently conducted a benchmark study of 12 of these emerging desktop search tools to help companies evaluate which product best fits their needs.
Results of Desktop Search Tool Benchmark Study
Using a systematic and objective testing protocol, the tools were evaluated along six attributes: usability, versatility, accuracy, efficiency, security, and enterprise readiness. The leader and best overall desktop search tool in each of these areas is Copernic 1.5 Beta with Coveo. It's intuitive and easy to use.
The second highest scoring tool is Yahoo! Desktop Search 1.1 Beta. Versatility of this desktop search tool is excellent and it supports more than 200 document types.
Our study found the third best tool to be Wizetech Archivarius 3000 3.14. It ranks very high in usability and efficiency, and provided the fastest search time among all the 12 desktop search tools analyzed.
Overall, our analysis reveals that while the desktop search tools show great promise for significant productivity gains, the technology is still immature due to a lack of security and overall manageability. However, instant messaging technology suffered similar initial setbacks but has grown to become a valuable business application. Similar results are anticipated for the desktop search market.
'Desktop search tools will help boost not only corporate productivity, but also creativity and innovation - Such technologies will become essential to compete in the emerging knowledge-based economy,' noted Dr. Raj Veeramani, UW-Madison Professor of Engineering & Business, and Director of the UW E-Business Institute and the UW E-Business Consortium.
The 'Benchmark Study of Desktop Search Tools' is available to the public free-of-cost through the UW E-Business Institute Web site www.uwebi.org. The study was conducted solely by the UW E-Business Consortium and was not funded or supported by desktop search companies or institutions.
The UW E-Business Consortium (the industry membership base of the UW E-Business Institute) is Wisconsin's premier organization that helps companies gain a competitive advantage through e-business. Our members - business executives and senior managers from the Midwest's leading companies - tap into world-class university resources and the collective experiences of this B2B and B2C group to address and share strategic e-business and information technology challenges, best practices and lessons learned."
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