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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November 23, 2016
Oracle Endeca - Powerful way to Increase Website Conversions
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.
April 19, 2014
Endeca helps your business manage and present content in ways your customers will appreciate.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
April 12, 2014
Endeca best ATG catalog search engine.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Used for catalog search.
- Does catalog search much better than any other ATG product.
- Can't think of any.
April 05, 2014
Endeca
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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
April 04, 2014
Oracle Endeca - Your guided search.. amplified!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
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.
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.
March 26, 2014
Come Search For My Endeca Review :)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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