Overview
What is Endeca (discontinued)?
Endeca was a business intelligence platform for analyzing unstructured data, acquired by Oracle and since discontinued.
Good for the basics, but not the best search tool out there.
Oracle Endeca - Powerful way to Increase Website Conversions
Happy Enterprise Campers
Endeca helps your business manage and present content in ways your customers will appreciate.
Endeca best ATG catalog search engine.
Endeca
Oracle Endeca - Your guided search.. amplified!
Endeca can be a good solution for your company, if your company has the right attributes.
Use of Endeca in the Publishing industry
10 Years of Endeca but not a Pro
If You Want To Sell Products - Get Endeca
Disappointed with Endeca!
A later …
Endeca is great!!
I made the categorization of products easy and it made …
Come Search For My Endeca Review :)
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What is Endeca (discontinued)?
Endeca was a business intelligence platform for analyzing unstructured data, acquired by Oracle and since discontinued.
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(1-15 of 15)Endeca - A Powerful Tool In The Right Hands
- It provides powerful search functionality.
- It adds functionality for navigation which makes it much easier for customers to use our commerce site and find what they are looking for.
- More documentation for the product would be very useful.
- The product almost requires training in order to be able to use it effectively. Knowledge of HTML is a must.
If your intended users of Endeca are not very tech-savvy or have HTML experience, you will almost certainly have struggles learning how to use the tool and make the most of it. Training will be necessary. Choose a solid implementation partner.
Good for the basics, but not the best search tool out there.
- Possibly the best tool for a basic/simple search platform implementation
- XQuery works well
- Rule Manager is a very useful tool
- Endeca's page builder is not fit to be an enterprise product - it is just BAD!
- It is not easy for a non-user to understand Endeca quickly
- Multi-index search (or any complex search implementation) is not easy to setup in Endeca
Oracle Endeca - Powerful way to Increase Website Conversions
- Simplifying our cross-channel selling strategy.
- Improving search for customers.
- Increasing sales from our multiple selling channels.
- Steep learning curve.
- Difficult to set up.
Happy Enterprise Campers
- Landing page creation with Experience Manager
- Operational performance and stability
- Feature set
- Business tool set
- Product roadmap (Oracle Commerce V11)
- No well defined commuity
- Sizable learning curve
- Feature set managed without involving the customer base
Endeca helps your business manage and present content in ways your customers will appreciate.
- Speed
- Accuracy
- Relevance
- Setup can be time consuming. Which can lead to project overruns.
- Requires specialized knowledge and training
- Can be costly for small organizations.
Endeca best ATG catalog search engine.
- Does catalog search much better than any other ATG product.
- Can't think of any.
Endeca
- High performance search platform for structured and unstructured data
- Contextual navigation
- Business tooling to support experience management for web platforms
- Improved information access layer (i.e. assembler), currently perceived as a bottleneck to the high performance mdex engine
Oracle Endeca - Your guided search.. amplified!
Oracle Endeca Commerce offers a strong, and very competitive, Advanced Enterprise search platform. at it's core, addresses pain points related to data discovery and customer experience management. It is - by far - the best of it's breed w.r.t. search and navigation capabilities enabling people to get to what they are looking for pretty easily and quickly. It does have a sophisticated configuration model that gives power to the Business to manage dynamic customer interaction through merchandising capabilities in a cross-platform/cross-channel environment (web, mobile, other...).
- High performance search and navigation queries compared to normal database systems. One of the key factors contributing to that is the Endeca flat record structure stored in a data graph format that allows for faceted navigation of records. What is called "Guided Navigation".
- Fully interactive customer experience through Endeca Experience Manager tool. This tool provides merchandising capabilities which allow for the development of customized experiences based on the current web page being visited, search keywords, user segment, date time (start and/or end) faceted navigation state or a combination of all of these. Experience Manager also allows for content - or product - spotlighting as well as other capabilities of boosting certain search results to the top of the list or bury them at the end. And many other features.
- The Oracle Endeca Assembler API allows for the ability to centralize all business logic and connecting to third party systems to consolidate search results, navigation options, CMS content, RSS feeds and pretty much anything you can think of into one unified response (JSON or XML) to any system or channel in the platform.
- Auto-correct and "Did you mean" features are fabulous. Oracle Endeca provides a sophisticated configuration model that enables the team to tune the various thresholds for these features which allows for a tailored behavior to each industry or context.
- One of the very competitive features of Oracle Endeca is that it enables business teams to choose the appropriate relevance of the search results being displayed. The team can tweak - resort or reorder - search results to show the desired list for the users. This is also possible for faceted navigation options!
- The unique "Guided Navigation" feature in Oracle Endeca ONLY shows relevant/applicable refinement options to the user at any given context or navigation state. Which minimizes - a lot of times eliminates - the likelihood of 'no results'.
- Handling no results scenarios through Search tuning capabilities in Oracle Endeca.
- Preview capabilities for content within Experience Manager without affecting the live production environment.
- Type-ahead suggestions is a very strong feature of Endeca as it provides light-weight responses with relevant options to users as they type.
- Ability to connect to almost any data source with minimal effort. Documents, file systems, databases, text files, delimited files, web site crawling etc.
- The workbench business tool may have it's glitches at times when trying to open content or save content. A refresh or login/logout usually fixes it.
- Effort is required to integrate Endeca into any web application or platform since it provides XML or JSON that would still need to be consumed and worked with. Generally it is best to create object models in your application to read in these responses and work with them.
- It is not possible to update records or taxonomy in Oracle Endeca Commerce on the fly. A baseline update process - or partial update process - has to run to update records before any changes can appear on the web application or front-end. The time it takes for this update to finish is highly dependent on the number of records in your data set (thousands vs. millions) and the amount/nature of ETL transformations you have setup in Endeca's Pipeline.
- Although Endeca provides the partial update process - which allows for incremental updates to the data through out the day - the frequency of these partial updates is highly dependent on how long that update takes. The main reason is because it is not possible to run more than one update simultaneously.
- Advanced or Sophisticated Enterprise Search platform: If you spend effort on your search capabilities, Endeca is the tool.
- If you are looking for capabilities to search and navigate similar to a relational-database system, then Endeca is not the best fit.
- If you are spending effort to drive customer experience, especially around customer interaction with your web application, Endeca can help with that in a multichannel environment.
Endeca can be a good solution for your company, if your company has the right attributes.
- Filtering
- Fast reads and data extraction from large data sets
- Good user interface and tools to support the technology.
- Better documentation that can be accessed easily
- Simplify the product and its dependencies
What is the size of your data set? The larger the data set the more value for your investment
What is the business problem your are trying to solve? Make sure that you are clear what Endeca is good at and what you want out of it
Understand what a license entitles you to use out of the Endeca product and dependencies are there to enable certain features.
Do you have any experts that can help you implement your solutions. There aren't that many people with true in depth expertise in this technology.
Use of Endeca in the Publishing industry
- Provides exact, correct counts of items in its dimensions.
- Allows for flexible, out-of-the-box boosting of content (based on combo of any/all of: user profile, date, dimension being browsed and search keyword).
- It has a reasonably good admin interface for the administration of boosting/promotion rules for the business user.
- Dynamically-generated dimension values can be messy, hard to control.
- Pipelines can get quite complicated very quickly unless the data is carefully organized beforehand.
- Scalability may be an issue since I don't believe there's support for more than two MDEX servers for a particular index (I could be wrong about this, but this is what the config file implies).
- There's no easy way to search multiple indices at once.
10 Years of Endeca but not a Pro
- Does what you tell it to do
- Its logical in its execution
- IT needs extensive training to understand it
- It is moderately flexible
If You Want To Sell Products - Get Endeca
- Define the search experience. For example, we were able to select which products or type of products should display when certain search terms were entered.
- Create commercial web pages without IT. For example, we could create new product departments or categories by combining basic HTML and CSS.
- Dynamically display the best products. For example, when we created a rule to display products less than $100, it triggered those type of products all the time and excluded products without image or out of stock.
- For the most part, it is quite intuitive, however, you need to have an intermediate knowledge of HTML to be able to construct unique promotional web pages. Nowadays, with WordPress and other content management systems that have WYSIWYG interfaces, Endeca may prove to be challenging to HTML beginners.
Disappointed with Endeca!
A later version was used in another team which was building an eCommerce site for another large retailer. The experience manager is used more often.
- Basic search function, performance is good.
- Rule manager is a rich feature that others do not offer.
- XQuery is a powerful tool. Which allows you to exercise more logic one the server side.
- Page builder. Adobe CQ5 is taking a better lead in this area with a simpler, much more intuitive offering.
- Endeca's page builder is disappointing, hard to use. We used it to build the site, but the the client rarely uses it. It is just too complicated.
- Partial update is a pain. The earlier version actually kills the application. We have to stop the partial update, which is very inconvenient.
- Steep learning curve.
When IBM starts to incorporate their software with Apache Solr, Endeca as a third party plugin search tool will not really be required as IBM has a built-in feature for using Solr. Endeca is less useful in that scenario, though it is much powerful than Solr.
It's difficult to imagine paying extra when there is a free, open-source search tool available out of the box.
We have found Solr to be much easier to learn and very handy to use. We like it much more than Endeca now.
Content management is not Endeca's specialty, and we already use either Alfresco or Adobe CQ5 for that.
Endeca is great!!
I made the categorization of products easy and it made it easy to highlight top selling products, brands, and products on promo
- User friendliness
- Ecommerce merchandising
- Highlighting sales, top products, etc...
- Complex back end
- Long update time
Come Search For My Endeca Review :)
- Guided Search ("mega-menu")
- MDEX engine indexing
- Configurability
- Workbench functionality
- Scalability
- Licensing fees
- Tools for initial data setup of dimensions/properties is somewhat lacking
- Documentation is severely lacking and or too vast - courses are somewhat limited in scope and expensive