Learn in the textbookThe Information Systems Strategy Framework and the Classification of Information Systems
DefinitionEnterprise search (エンタープライズサーチ) is a mechanism that lets people search across information stored in many separate internal systems from a single entry point.
ExplanationIts targets include not only structured data (定型データ) arranged in tables but also unstructured data (非定型データ) with no fixed format, such as documents and email. Many search engines use software called a crawler (クローラ) to visit and collect documents automatically and build an index in advance so they are easy to find.
AnalogyIt is like a library catalog terminal that tells you where any book is, whichever shelf or stack room it sits in.
Memory hookEnterprise plus search: think of it as a search engine for inside the company.