Embedded Search

ISYS:sdk 8 enables software developers and system integrators to incorporate the power of the ISYS search API into custom applications and solutions, whether for commercial distribution or internal use. Our search engine SDK has been used as an embedded search solution for a variety of different applications, including email archiving, records and document management, recruitment and document imaging applications.

• Benefits
• Who uses it?
• How does it work?

What are the benefits of ISYS:sdk?
ISYS:sdk provides powerful search functionality across any type of data, from structured databases through to unstructured text and semi-structured web formats; more than 200 formats are supported. Developers can therefore embed search across an entire application; from database fields and stored documents through to web content.

Recognizing that developers want to get on with the job, ISYS:sdk has been designed for simplicity and requires only a dozen or so calls to achieve most functionality. It’s not necessary to spend hours mastering the ISYS search API set.

As the world of enterprise software continues to evolve, search technology is often used as a key piece to a larger puzzle. By focusing solely on developing a superior search solution, ISYS enables enterprise software companies to concentrate on the core components of their products, while still accessing best-of-breed search technology.

What’s more, we understand how frustrating it can be when you’re promised the world in a piece of software, then left hanging when things don’t happen the way you expect them to. To ensure our ISYS:sdk customers never have to deal with such trying circumstances, we offer personalized developer-to-developer support that is literally a phone call away.
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Who uses ISYS:sdk?
ISYS:sdk is used by a range of high-profile organizations, including EMC Corporation, TOWER Software, Autodesk, World Software Corporation, Microdec and Konica Minolta. These businesses rely on ISYS:sdk’s ability to provide a sophisticated search solution that can be quickly and easily integrated into their products.
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How does ISYS:sdk work?
With the ISYS:sdk, the core ISYS search engine is provided with Windows DLL, COM, Java and .NET support, complete with full documentation and samples written in C, Visual Basic, Delphi, ASP and C#. It features:

• The ability to index unlimited documents and search several billion documents in a single query, from a broad range of document formats. ISYS indexes are self-tuning, requiring minimal maintenance or internal resources.
• A semantically rich query language with high performance indexing and retrieval, both in speed and index size.
• A small, easy-to-use basic retrieval API set plus advanced API calls to provide additional functionality.
• An External Access Module API for access to additional document types, including non-standard databases, proprietary data or custom security schemes.
• The ability to index and search application-specific metadata alongside documents.

The core ISYS engine adds less than a megabyte of in-memory overhead to your application, and time to complete a search depends not on the volume of data being searched but on how big the result is going to be.
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