Alcove9 Releases v7 Intranet Search Engine for Engineering and Manufacturing

By DE Editors

While Alcove9 LLC is a new company, its flagship product is a third-generation scalable search technology built on an open source platform that is capable of searching tens of millions of documents, drawings and images belonging to thousands of users, according to the company.

Alcove9 has launched the latest release of its suite of search products and support services. The cornerstone of the Suite, the a9 Hub, is based on an open source platform that the company says provides instant access to all data.

The Alcove9 Suite of Products includes:

• The a9 Hub is the workhorse software that finds, sorts, categorizes and displays all data and file types in a scalable, flexible and secure system, according to the company.  
• The a9 CADViz add-on is designed to allow users to find, visualize, annotate and markup CAD files/models, thereby reducing the need for CAD licenses that are only used by the non-technical or occasional user.
• The a9 AppConect is a series of application connectors designed to link users to information in various systems like ERP, MRO, ECM, RM, PDM and PLM.
• The a9 AppConnect for Aras Innovator provides access to enterprise-wide product information.  
• The Alcove9 pricing and subscription structure is based on an a-la-carte set of options designed to allow organizations to select only what they need as it relates to users, servers and applications.

The company’s new president, Dr. Sam Abu-Hamdan, takes the helm after a career at Tata Technologies (formerly INCAT) where he led the aerospace and defense team in North America. He has a background in PLM solution architecture and CAD/CAM. Prior to his career at Tata Technologies, Abu-Hamdan worked as an engineering design and analysis consultant in the automotive industry.

For more information, including a video demonstration and free download of the base product, visit Alcove9. For more information on data management, read Kenneth Wong’s “Search: The New Frontier in Data Management” blog post.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.