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OmniFind Enterprise Edition Version 9.1 information roadmap

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Abstract

This document provides links to the information resources that are available for IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition Version 9.1. The resources are organized according to the progression of key customer tasks.

Content

Links to different versions of Omnifind Enterprise Edition documentation



Evaluating

These resources provide a high-level introduction to IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition.



IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition (Type: Marketing; Format: HTML)
This is the home page for IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition. This page provides access to information about the product, documentation, support, and tools.

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition (Type: Marketing; Format: HTML)
This is the home page for IBM OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition. This page provides access to information about the product, documentation, support, and tools.

What's new in OmniFind Enterprise Edition 9.1 (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Learn about the new and enhanced functionality in version 9.1.

Product overview (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
These topics describe the main components of OmniFind Enterprise Edition.

IBM Education Assistant for IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition (Type: e-learning; Format: HTML)
This site provides multimedia educational modules that are designed to help you gain a better understanding of IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition.

OmniFind Enterprise Edition terminology (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
This topic provides a glossary of OmniFind Enterprise Edition terms and concepts..

Enterprise Content Management on developerWorks (Type: Other; Format: HTML)
This site contains links to articles, tutorials, and information about the Enterprise Content Management family of products.

Planning

Before you install IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition, carefully plan your system environment. Such planning facilitates performance, the best use of your resources, and helps you to avoid potential problems.



System requirements (Type: Technote; Format: HTML)
Before you install IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition, ensure that you have the required software and a supported operating system.

Supported data sources (Type: Technote; Format: HTML)
This document describes the various types of data sources that are supported by IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition and the requirements for connecting to the various data sources.

Collection types in OmniFind Enterprise Edition 9.1 (Type: Technote; Format: HTML)
This document describes the types of collections that you can create, and the functions that are available for configuring or searching a collection, depending on whether you install IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition Version 9.1 as a fresh installation or as an upgrade installation.

Release notes (Type: Release notes; Format: HTML)
This document lists any known problems that might affect the installation or use of IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 9.1.

Installing

These resources provide instructions for installing an OmniFind Enterprise Edition system.



Quick Start Guide (Type: Manual; Format: PDF)
The Quick Start Guide provides information about how to install the product in a single server configuration. The Quick Start Guide is included with the product package on the Quick Start CD.

Planning for installation (Type: Information Center; Format: HTML)
These topics provide guidelines to help you prepare for installation. They discuss the different installation methods and the information that you need to gather before you start the installation program.

Installing IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition (Type: Information Center; Format: HTML)
These topics provide instructions for installing an OmniFind Enterprise Edition system on one or more servers.

Upgrading to IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 9.1 (Type: Information Center; Format: HTML)
These topics provide instructions for upgrading an OmniFind Enterprise Edition system on one or more servers.

Configuring

These documents provide guidance for setting up, configuring, and administering various OmniFind Enterprise Edition components, including how to integrate OmniFind Enterprise Edition with WebSphere Portal and Lotus Notes.



Administering OmniFind Enterprise Edition (Type: Information Center; Format: HTML)
These topics provide information about administering your OmniFind Enterprise Edition system, such as creating collections, configuring crawlers, and associating custom dictionaries with collections.

OmniFind Enterprise Edition security (Type: Information Center; Format: HTML)
These topics provide information about the various ways that you can control access to collections and documents in an OmniFind Enterprise Edition system, including how to configure the identity management component to support single sign-on (SSO) security.

Integration with Classification Module (Type: Information center topic; Format: HTML)
These topics provide information about the various ways that you can integrate OmniFind Enterprise Edition with IBM InfoSphere Classification Module, including how to improve search quality in the OmniFind Enterprise Edition system and how to train Classification Module knowledge bases by using analyzed documents from your OmniFind Enterprise Edition system.

Integration with WebSphere Portal (Type: Information center topic; Format: HTML)
These topics provide information about the various ways that you can integrate OmniFind Enterprise Edition with WebSphere Portal, including how to use the OmniFind Enterprise Edition search portlet as the default WebSphere Portal search engine.

Integration with Lotus Notes (Type: Information center topic; Format: HTML)
These topics show you how to expand the search capabilities of Lotus Notes client deployments by deploying a plug-in. This plug-in enables users to search OmniFind Enterprise Edition collections from the Lotus Notes client search bar.

Exporting documents for use in other applications (Type: Information center topic; Format: HTML)
These topics describe how to export information from your OmniFind Enterprise Edition system for use in data warehouse, classification, eDiscovery, and other types of applications.

Commands, return codes, and session IDs (Type: Information center topic; Format: HTML)
This topic provides information about how you can use commands to diagnose problems, determine the status of the different parts of the system, start and stop sessions, or start and stop the system.

Developing

These documents include API guidance and sample code to help you create new applications for OmniFind Enterprise Edition.



Developing search applications (Type: Information center topic; Format: HTML)
These topics provide guidance for developing applications for searching and administering collections and external sources. The information shows you how to create applications with Web services, and how to create Java plug-ins for crawling data.

Samples (Type: Information center topic; Format: HTML)
This information guides you through code samples that show you how to search and administer collections and external sources, including details about the sample search applications. Samples are also provided for Web service applications and crawler plug-ins.

Semantic search

These resources describe the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) and show you how to integrate semantic search solutions with OmniFind Enterprise Edition.



Unstructured Information Management Architecture SDK (Type: Online; Format: HTML)
This site provides in-depth information about how to use the UIMA SDK. The UIMA SDK supports the implementation, composition, and deployment of applications that work with unstructured information. Go here to download the SDK and related documentation.

Text analysis (Type: Information center topic; Format: HTML)
These topics discuss how you can integrate UIMA analysis logic with OmniFind Enterprise Edition collections and enable the collections to be searched with semantic search.

Modifying the pattern expression in the Regular Expression annotator (Type: Technote; Format: HTML)
This document describes how you can modify the Regular Expression annotator to fit your use case.

Troubleshooting

These documents provide troubleshooting assistance for various components of your system. Guidance for IBM software support is also included.



Messages for OmniFind Enterprise Edition (Type: Information center topic; Format: HTML)
These topics provide explanations and suggestions for corrective actions for OmniFind Enterprise Edition error messages.

OmniFind Enterprise Edition log files and alerts (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
These topics provide information about how to choose the types of messages that you want to log for a collection and for the system, how to specify options for creating and viewing log files, receiving alerts, and receiving e-mail about messages.

Troubleshooting installation problems (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
These topics provide information about how to solve problems that might occur when you install your OmniFind Enterprise Edition system, such as the unsuccessful installation of prerequisite software or problems with services or processes that do not start.

Troubleshooting OmniFind Enterprise Edition administration (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
These topics provide information about how to solve problems that might occur when you run an OmniFind Enterprise Edition system. Administration problems might include backup scripts not working, socket problems, port problems, or sessions ending unexpectedly.

Support for IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition (Type: Other; Format: HTML)
This is the support site for IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition. You can search for technical documents and other product related information and tools.

RSS feed for support updates (Type: Other; Format: HTML)
Subscribe to this RSS feed to stay up to date with the latest content for IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition.

Contacting IBM Software Support (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
This article describes how to prepare for contacting IBM software support and how to contact IBM software support online or over the phone.

End of Support dates (Type: Other; Format: HTML)
This page lists dates when products go out of support. You can sort the list by product and by general availability date. You can subscribe to receive updates automatically.

Community

Share your experiences, expertise, and feedback with other product users.



OmniFind Enterprise Edition forum (Type: Forum; Format: HTML)
This forum is a venue to exchange ideas and share solutions about IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition.

Information Management community (Type: Other; Format: HTML)
This site provides links to forums, blogs, and other resources about IBM Information Management products.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

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