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Give UltraSearch a Boost

How a central search index increases your efficiency

Blog Author Joachim Marder

Joey

CEO
UltraSearch gets boosted with DataCentral
Published on 14.10.2024

Effective data management is crucial. Without it, there's not just a risk of decreased productivity and missed business opportunities, but it could also lead to frustration among your staff.

With SpaceObServer DataCentral, we offer you a solution that helps you do just that. It provides a central search index that indexes data in the background and makes it available for searching with UltraSearch .

With this powerful approach, you can not only boost UltraSearch, but also your entire organisation by optimising the working time of your employees who use UltraSearch.

In this article, we will give you an exciting insight into what you can expect from DataCentral with its central search index and why you will not want to do without it in your IT toolset.

Boosting Efficiency and Conserving Resources

With SpaceObServer DataCentral, you give UltraSearch a centralized search index that not only makes your team more efficient, but also conserves your network resources.

How it works: A background service indexes your data including metadata and file content in a local database. You can decide for yourself which data DataCentral should index, and which should remain excluded.

As soon as this central index is created, UltraSearch can query it at lightning speed and delivers the results in the usual quality and speed.

To ensure that the index is always up to date, you can define a schedule that determines exactly when and how often DataCentral should update the index with a new scan.

This ensures that your employees always have access to the latest data.

Quick search for content thanks to full text index

DataCentral builds a centralized full-text index of your data that allows you to quickly search for words or phrases in a large text or document repository and is available to all UltraSearch instances in your network.

With the full-text index, UltraSearch processes content searches much faster, saving your team valuable time. The reason: UltraSearch no longer has to search the entire content of each individual file.

UltraSearch file content search

Instead, UltraSearch scans the structured index for the information you are looking for at lightning speed and presents all full hits with relevant meta information in the search results list.

Many UltraSearch users, low network load

DataCentral's centralized search index not only makes searching with UltraSearch faster, but also helps to reduce the load on your network.

Since the index keeps data structured in a central location, individual UltraSearch instances no longer search your file shares independently for files and information, but can seamlessly access the central search index.

This gives you completely new scaling options: With DataCentral, it doesn't matter how many employees or departments use UltraSearch in your company at the same time: No more direct requests are made to your network. 

Seamless search in the central index

The interaction between UltraSearch and DataCentral in everyday work is seamless: If UltraSearch recognizes that an index for a selected search directory or a complete network drive is available centrally, it automatically uses this for the search.

Your users will not notice any of this and can work with UltraSearch as usual. Additional instruction or time-consuming training is therefore not necessary.

UltraSearch is also able to automatically switch back and forth between the index and a normal search. This process is seamless and happens in a matter of seconds without affecting the user experience.

Setup is also completed quickly: UltraSearch only requires a configuration of the connection information to DataCentral, which can also be stored with command line parameters for a central rollout.

Strong data protection thanks to on-premises solution

With DataCentral, you retain full control over your data. Instead of relying on external cloud services, DataCentral keeps the search index on-premises.

This means that you don't need to worry about data protection. Your data is stored in your own database and never leaves your premises unintentionally. 

At the same time, DataCentral ensures that only employees with sufficient access rights can access the indexed data with UltraSearch.

User authentication takes place on the server side and is carried out in the same way as conventional Windows authentication. As a result, UltraSearch only shows the results that users also have access to in Windows Explorer.

When will DataCentral be available?

We look forward to bringing you SpaceObServer DataCentral, a central search index that works seamlessly with UltraSearch. DataCentral will be launched in a couple of weeks already

Already curious? Then register now for free to keep up to date with our developments.

Still got questions? Feel free to contact us at sales@jam-software.com.