Endeca - A Powerful Tool In The Right Hands
Endeca is used by both our IT and Marketing departments. It is integrated with our eCommerce platform (Oracle Commerce/ATG) to aid in …
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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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What is Endeca (discontinued)?
Endeca was a business intelligence platform for analyzing unstructured data, acquired by Oracle and since discontinued.
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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.
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Endeca was a business intelligence platform for analyzing unstructured data, acquired by Oracle and since discontinued.
Adobe Experience Manager, Microsoft BI (MSBI), and Tableau Desktop are common alternatives for Endeca (discontinued).
The most common users of Endeca (discontinued) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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December 04, 2018
Good for the basics, but not the best search tool out there.
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
Endeca is brilliant for setting up simple and straightforward search platforms that utilise only basic search rules. On the other hand, Apache Solr supports far more complex search platform implementations, including multi-index search. Overall, I would say Solr is far more powerful than Endeca.
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March 18, 2015
Happy Enterprise Campers
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
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
Apache Solr, Lucene, Adobe Search and Promote, Google Commerce Search, Amazon Cloud Search
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- Faster development turnaround
- Rich feature set
- Effortless data mining
- A/B testing of relevancy algorithms led to an improvement in overall conversion
- Robust user experience
April 04, 2014
Oracle Endeca - Your guided search.. amplified!
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
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.
- Oracle Endeca has demonstrated a noticeable ability to increase conversion rates and great eCommerce experiences.
- Solr,Google Enterprise Search
Endeca is at the same level with largest enterprise search providers. However, it does surpass them in the ability to fine tune and customize search configuration.
March 28, 2014
If You Want To Sell Products - Get Endeca
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- Faster conversions
I use Microsoft Commerce Server today, but I would recommend Endeca any day.
March 28, 2014
Disappointed with Endeca!
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- It is a searching tool, and hard to estimate its impact on conversion.
- It does its job regarding better searching; In terms of efficiency, it's hard to say: it has big learning curve. It requires a dedicated Endeca developer to work on it.
- Compared to Solr, it is way too complicated.
- solr
I described it earlier. Again, Solr is much simpler to learn, use and develop, much more intuitive. As an open source resource, Solr is a great tool. And because of adoption by IBM WebSphere Commerce, the decision to abandon Endeca is easy.