BA Insight, a US-based provider of integrated search technologies and search-based applications, has announced a partnership with metasearch technology provider MuseGlobal, Inc., US. As a result of the partnership, BA Insight has expanded the number of content sources it can securely integrate into its TotalView Applications. These are projected as search-driven and role-specific solutions built atop the Microsoft SharePoint platform that integrate an organisation's various data sources to provide knowledge workers with a 360-view of any topic, task, or subject matter.
Under the terms of the partnership, MuseGlobal's library of connectors to hundreds of 'beyond the firewall' content sources - including Internet databases, digital news sources and online libraries - will now be added to BA Insight's existing library of connectors to over 40+ enterprise systems. This will enable BA Insight to deliver TotalView applications that surface and fuse content from not only all of an organisation's internal systems, but also all of the external data streams, news feeds and proprietary information services it needs to make informed decisions.
BA Insight's TotalView applications are said to deliver the same 'contextual' search experience that users have grown accustomed to in the consumer space - where search-driven applications like Expedia.com and Zagat.com not only surface information from across multiple sources, but also present that information in a manner customised to the user, his/her role, location, and objective(s). Because TotalView applications are built atop of - and integrate seamlessly with - Microsoft SharePoint and/or FAST Search for SharePoint, they can be deployed at a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional data integration or business intelligence initiatives. TotalView applications have been deployed by organisations of all types and sizes, to meet the needs of a of a variety of business processes — including customer call centre consoles, attorney matter & client-centric information centres, and intelligence analysts' workbenches.
