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February 24, 2020
Endeca is used by both our IT and Marketing departments. It is integrated with our eCommerce platform (Oracle Commerce/ATG) to aid in search and navigation functionality. It allows us to categorize products, accessories, add-ons, etc. which is helpful for up-selling and cross-selling within our product lines. Although it is not especially easy to use, it does solve a definite need for us.
- 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.
Yes - I am a member of Oracle Application User Group and Commerce Pros (for Oracle ATG Commerce). I find the groups useful to gain insight from other users of products. Oracle is fine for support of technical issues, but sometimes it is more helpful to see how other people and organizations are using the product and how they overcome specific problems.
November 23, 2016
In my organization, we use Endeca to streamline and simplify the buying experience for our customers across all channels, and several departments are implicated in this and using Endeca. The main business problem it addresses is improving our conversion rate and increasing the number of customers who finalize their sale and minimizing the number that abandon the purchase near the last steps.
- Simplifying our cross-channel selling strategy.
- Improving search for customers.
- Increasing sales from our multiple selling channels.
- Steep learning curve.
- Difficult to set up.
December 04, 2018
Endeca is primarily used by our technology team for the search platform. Endeca offers search and navigation capabilities, which are fairly good compared to market standards. Using Endeca has been essential to our team's deployment of a high performance search platform on our website. In addition to this, we also manage search rules using Endeca's rule manager.
- 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
Yes - I am a member of the All India Oracle User Group.
Learning from others how they make the best out of a specific tool is probably the best thing one gets out of these groups. But these learnings can go a long way in impacting one's own organisation.
Learning from others how they make the best out of a specific tool is probably the best thing one gets out of these groups. But these learnings can go a long way in impacting one's own organisation.
Endeca as a search/navigation/promotional vehicle is at the center of our ECommerce platform for the past 10 years, and allows our business team to manage product catalog, as well as hundreds of landing pages. It provides a fairly decent basic experience (not to mention pretty advanced feature set that you can tap into), offers robust performance and stability, and mature Java API. Continuously evaluating other products in the space, I still believe we made the right choice in the first place.
- 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
April 04, 2014
The product was used across a department within the organization to support intelligent data mining for fast and efficient data gathering and reporting.
- 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
March 29, 2014
Endeca drives our website search and category organization, navigation, and filtering. We use it to execute queries and organize results.
- Does what you tell it to do
- Its logical in its execution
- IT needs extensive training to understand it
- It is moderately flexible
March 28, 2014
Endeca was used for content management and online merchandising. Marketers did not need to wait for IT to switch up the website and change out promotions. It helped to dynamically display products based on a business rule (for example, display products less than $XX, or of a particular brand). It defined search results. Also, it allowed us to edit HTML on web pages.
- 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.
It is the search tool that we used for a large eCommerce retailer. We also utilize its rule manager, pagebuilder to build the site.
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.
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.
I used Endeca for online merchandising on one of Canada's most visited retail site.
I made the categorization of products easy and it made it easy to highlight top selling products, brands, and products on promo
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
April 04, 2014
We work in the Professional Services Industry and use Oracle Endeca to develop eCommerce and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for our customers during our consulting engagements. We also use the tool internally for searching and navigation of our document base as well as other analytical operations across the whole organization.
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...).
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.
April 19, 2014
Endeca allows us to bring customized content to all our users based on it's drill down intelligence capabilities and speed.
- 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.
March 31, 2014
Endeca is being used by one of our websites, which is a trade publication site dealing with the hospitality/meeting industry. It is used to power the editorial section as well as the buyers' guide section.
- 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.
March 26, 2014
We are using it to index our ATG content for guided search across our site along with targeting of specific content based on search results. It is being used at this point primarily by our ecommerce department and is web-facing for the most part. This allows us to make our web content more accessible to our user base.
- 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
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
April 12, 2014
Used for catalog search.
- Does catalog search much better than any other ATG product.
- Can't think of any.
We provide consulting services to our clients that are using Endeca within the Retail industry. It's currently used as both a Search and Merchandising platform.
- 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
Endeca (discontinued) Scorecard Summary
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What is Endeca (discontinued)?
Endeca is a business intelligence platform for analyzing unstructured data. It is now unsupported and not available for sale.
For more information visit https://www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/endeca.html
For more information visit https://www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/endeca.html
Categories: Business Intelligence (BI)
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