Analyst Reports

Endeca's technology delivers the clearest visibility into information, driving billions of dollars in measurable cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca's Information Access Platform, a new class of technology, which marries market-leading search with business intelligence capabilities and Endeca's patented Guided Navigation® & Summarization experience to visually guide any user through asking and answering any question. This provides non-technical users with unprecedented access to and interaction with the full range of structured and unstructured data across the enterprise. As a result, enterprises can support a wide range of decision making by providing a 360-degree view of information and related context to thousands or even millions of concurrent users.

Endeca has been recognized by many leading industry research firms as a market leader and innovator spanning search, business intelligence and unified information access.

Analyst Reports

	2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology Learn why Endeca is positioned in the leader's quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology which "assesses vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a range of technologies. Their capabilities include search; federated search, content classification, categorization and clustering; fact and entity extraction; taxonomy creation and management; information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding; and desktop search to address user-controlled repositories in order to locate and "invoke" documents, data, e-mail and intelligence."
	IDC: Worldwide Search and Discovery Software 2009-2013 Forecast Update and 2008 Vendor Shares (192.14 KB) In this IDC report, Endeca is recognized for selling its full platform for building custom applications, as well as in the creation and sales of search-based applications. “Endeca’s particular strength is in creating access to semi-structured data, and in providing the tools to visualize and analyze it,” said Sue Feldman, vice president for search and discovery technologies research and the author of the report. “As such, IDC considers Endeca among the leaders in exploring new unified information access architectures that combine information retrieval and database features in a single hybrid architecture.” Register to learn more about the Search and Discovery software market, and why IDC considers Endeca a leader in this industry.
	The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Search, Q2 2008 (530.32 KB) This report evaluates each of the major vendors in the market and provides advice for selecting the best fit for your enterprise search needs. Endeca is cited as a market leader in the report, receiving top scores among 11 participating vendors for company and product strategy. The breadth of Endeca's capabilities is highlighted in the report, which notes that Endeca's Information Access Platform "is architected to support searching relational schemas (databases, data warehouses) and non-relational schemas (XML, RSS, documents)."
	Endeca: New Search Applications and Platform for the Multi-Core World (144.46 KB) AMR Analyst, Bruce Richardson, discusses McKinley, the newest version of Endeca's Information Access Platform.
	Forrester Research: Search + BI = Unified Information Access
	The Forrester Wave: Information-As-A-Service, Q1 2008
	AMR Research: Endeca Set To Lead the Information Visibility Revolution (97.2 KB) AMR Alert by Bruce Richardson discussing Endeca's plans to transform the way organizations think about data, data management, and visibility.
	IDC: Unified Access to Information: Content Vendors Heed the Urge to Converge (61.71 KB) Excerpt from IDC Industry Development and Models report "Unified Access to Information: Content Vendors Heed the Urge to Converge."
	IDC atVantage Case Study: Driving Innovation Through Better Information Access and Analysis (128.96 KB) IDC Case Study discussing how LexisNexis addressed legal industry needs with thier atVantage application build on Endeca Software.