BearingPoint, Inc., the leading global management and technology consulting firm, On 14 Feb announced an agreement with Google to deliver search solutions to major enterprise customers.

BearingPoint and Google are working together to bring powerful but simple Google search solutions to complex enterprise environments. BearingPoint extends Google's search capabilities by offering companies customized search technology tailored for specific business environments in industries such as pharmaceuticals, banking, brokerage, high-tech and aerospace.

"We are enthusiastic about providing the marketplace with our new suite of solutions for Google's search products and see a tremendous opportunity to address a significant and growing sector," said Harry You, CEO, BearingPoint. "Search technology is rapidly becoming a critical application in today's business environment and BearingPoint is committed to developing the products, services and partners that keep us at the forefront of the information technology landscape."

"Google's enterprise business more than doubled in 2005, and we look forward to continued success in 2006," said Dave Girouard, general manager, Google Enterprise. "As companies realize that search is critical to global business, we're pleased that BearingPoint is delivering the integration services, application plug-ins, and on-the-ground expertise that customers are demanding."

You continued, "Enterprise users expect the same level of functionality, simplicity and ease-of-use in the enterprise that they experience as consumers on the Internet. This is part of a shift we call consumerization of the enterprise and Google search products are at the leading edge of this trend."

According to Chris Weitz, managing director at BearingPoint, the new partnership will allow Google customers to use the Search Appliance as the primary search application for the enterprise.

Since it launched the Google Search Appliance in February 2002, Google has been continually expanding the volume and types of content it can crawl. Initially the GSA indexed only Web-based content, giving corporations a taste of what Google could do behind the firewall but not reaching enough content to be an enterprise solution.

After a series of updates, the GSA now reaches into relational databases, corporate security systems, content management apps, portals, more than 220 file formats, and Lotus Domino. BearingPoint will expand this reach considerably with software adapters that can link Google's appliance to a slew of enterprise applications, such as Documentum and FileNet (Profile, Products, Articles), Oracle (Profile, Products, Articles) databases, and Seibel. Also, BearingPoint is offering security extensions to GSA that allow for authentication, record-level security, and custom integration.

"People want to use the Google front end for as much as they can. We want to plug in these adapters to complete that reach and scope to allow access to these areas in the enterprise that are difficult to reach," Weitz said.

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