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Google Search Appliance - Customer Success Stories
The Google Search Appliance helps website visitors
and employees find what they’re looking for. But don’t
take our word for it – read about the implementations
of some of our current customers.
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Goal: Unified search globally across 22 million documents
Business name: Kimberly-Clark
Industry: Consumer Products
Deployment: Corporate Network |
Kimberly Clark uses the Google Search Appliance to provide their 32,000 knowledge workers globally with a unified search experience across 22 million documents. Read
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Goal: Increase productivity of administrators and clinicians at a leading hospital
Business name: Sunnybrook
Industry: Health Care
Deployment: Corporate Network |
Sunnybrook uses the Google Search Appliance to provide administrators, clinicians, and staff with access to the intranet, 100 SharePoint repositories, the employee directory, and a multimedia libary. Read
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Goal: Enable effective product search through 750,000 parts and 1.5 million web pages
Business name: Boats.Net
Industry: Marine and outdoor equipment
Deployment: Public Website |
Boats.Net leverages the Google Search Appliance to increase conversions by pointing users to the right product. Read
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Goal: Unify search across all content including SharePoint
Business name: Stratus Technologies
Industry: Technology
Deployment: Corporate Network |
Stratus uses the Google Search Appliance to provide a unified search experience across all their internal information including their SharePoint repositories. Read
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Goal: Provide employees easy access to information
Business name: Honeywell International
Industry: Manufacturing
Deployment: Corporate Network |
Honeywell International,
a $30 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, is using the
Google Search Appliance to manage information effectively and share it across
the organization. Read
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Goal: Provide a unified search across all corporate information
Business name: Agile Software
Industry: Technology
Deployment: Corporate Network |
Agile has a wide variety
of content in various Enterprise Application stores, including wikis, Documentum
eRooms, blogs, websites, and shared documents. Learn how Agile was able to unify
information access and increase employee productivity across the organization. Read more… |
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Goal: Deploy world-class search on intranet site to increase productivity
Business name: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Industry: Law firm
Deployment: Internal Search |
Whether they are looking for help from other employees or seeking a best practices document to guide their research, attorneys at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP stay informed with the Google Search Appliance. Read more… |
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Goal: Turn mainframe data into an easy-to-use web-based course-research tool
Business name: Illinois State University
Industry: Higher Education
Deployment: Internal and External Search |
When students want to plan their class schedules at one of the Midwest’s oldest educational institutions, it’s now easier than ever with a customized online course finder powered by the Google Search Appliance. Read more… |
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Goal: Improve constituent services
Business name: City of Virginia Beach
Industry: City government
Deployment: Site search |
The City of Virginia Beach wanted to put its site content at visitors’ fingertips. Using the Google Search Appliance, the city improved information access, reduced calls to its 24-hour contact center and enabled better service for citizens. Read more… |
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Goal: Enable employee information sharing
Business name: Emerson Process Management
Industry: Manufacturing
Deployment: Corporate Network |
| Implementing the Google Search
Appliance gave Emerson the opportunity to significantly extend the reach of its
'content experts' within the organization. According to Emerson, "You quickly
understand the value when you can type a few words and immediately find the
information you need instead of calling three or four people..." Read more… |
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Goal: Improve search in SharePoint
Business name: Essilor
Industry: Optical Manufacturing
Deployment: Corporate Network |
| Essilor uses the Google Search Appliance
to power search across content in SharePoint. The Google Search Appliance helps to
increase productivity and knowledge-sharing throughout all areas of its business. Read more… |
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Goal: Develop and share best practices across the company
Business name: BOC Gases (The Linde Group)
Industry: Engineering and Industrial Gases
Deployment: Corporate Network |
| The Linde Group is a world
leading industrial gases and engineering company with more than 53,000 employees
working in around 70 countries worldwide. Following the acquisition of The BOC Group,
the company has gases and engineering sales of approximately €12 billion. Read more… |
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Goal: Enable employee self-service across the corporate intranet
Business name: British Airways
Industry: Airline
Deployment: Corporate Network |
British Airways deployed the Google
Search Appliance across their intranet to enable employees to find information and answer questions online day or
night from any location. User satisfaction with the intranet overall has leapt from 59% to 80% of users either
'Highly Satisfied' or 'Satisfied'. Read more… |
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Goal: Provide visitors with easy
access to information
Business name: Ziff Davis
Organization type: Media
Deployment: Public Website |
Ziff
Davis Media now offers advanced search capabilities with
Google Search Appliance including the ability to dynamically
drill through categories. This new functionality brings
the search box to the center of the page. Read
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Goal: Improve knowledge management
Business name: Pioneer Investments
Industry: Financial Services
Deployment: Corporate Network |
A leading global investment-management company uses the Google Search Appliance to
improve knowledge management, increase productivity, and deliver better intelligence
to its staff. Read
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Goal: Match candidate CVs with employment vacancies
Business name: Hudson
Industry: Recruitment
Deployment: Database of candidate CVs |
Hudson wanted to find a way of improving its process of searching for the right
candidate to fill a vacant position. The Google Search Appliance
enables Hudson to search structured data and free text to match
candidates with vacant job openings. Read
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Goal: Improve overall website experience
Business name: Discovery Communications
Industry: Media
Deployment: Public Website |
| Discovery Communications hosts
sites for 14 channels featuring schedules and program information.
A previous search solution required extensive resources
to maintain and didn’t deliver quality results to
users. After deploying the Google Search Appliance, page
views have increased and the number of daily searches has
grown
70 percent. Read
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Goal: Improve citizen search experience
Business name: Food and Drug Administration
Industry: Federal Government
Deployment: Public Website |
The
FDA is responsible for informing the public with accurate
information on medicines and foods. The agency uses the
Google Search Appliance to crawl one million documents
across fda.gov. Both citizens and the FDA staff, who
make heavy use of the public site, "are very positive" about
having Google as the Internet search provider. Read
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Goal: Provide search for leading legal
information site
Business name: FindLaw
Industry: Legal
Deployment: Public Website |
FindLaw,
the most frequently visited legal site on the Internet,
provides a comprehensive set of
legal resources for legal professionals, businesses,
students, and the public. Using the Google Search Appliance,
FindLaw helps users accurately access the most important
documents among its millions of pages of frequently updated
legal information. Read
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Goal: Increase employee collaboration and
intranet usage
Business name: Medtronic
Industry: Healthcare
Deployment: Intranet |
A leader in medical technology with annual revenues of approximately $8 billion,
Medtronic needed a way to make 30,000 employees, especially research scientists
and engineers, aware of one another's projects. Since deploying the Google
Search Appliance on its intranet, Medtronic's intranet site traffic has
tripled – proving that Google-quality search drives overall intranet
usage and adoption. Read
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Goal: Improve the completeness and
accuracy of search results
Business name: National Parks Service
Industry: Federal Government
Deployment: Public Website and Intranet |
The National Park Service
(NPS) receives millions of visitors each month,
most of whom are seeking information on hundreds of parks,
trails and
monuments. Before deploying the Google Search Appliance,
NPS used to get 30
to 40 complaints a day, from users struggling to find information
on the
website. The quality of results improved so substantially
with the Google
Search Appliance that email inquiries went from an average
of 40 a day to 2! Read more… |
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Goal: Simplify access to documents and
data
Business name: National Semiconductor
Industry: Technology
Deployment: Intranet |
In
the complex and rapidly changing semiconductor design
and production business, efficient exchange of
information between employees is critical to success.
National Semiconductor deployed the Google Search Appliance
on its intranet to provide search for 10,000 employees
worldwide. Google’s universal search solution
has really made a difference, as search volume has increased
by a factor 8-10x, proof of how incredibly valuable employees
find the tool. Read
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Goal: Simplify information access for customer
support reps
Business name: Nextel Communications
Industry: Telecommunications
Deployment: Intranet |
Nextel’s
Telesales and Web Sales Order Support teams receive thousands
of calls each
day. In this intense CRM environment, the agents have
to access the right information quickly. The Google Search
Appliance has provided their service reps with easier
access to product and support information, so they can
answer questions and help customers more quickly. Read
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Goal: Provide citizens with easy access
to government information
Business name: State of Indiana / NIC
Industry: Government
Deployment: Public Website |
NIC
and the State of Indiana needed an affordable and easy-to-use
search engine to improve the
effectiveness of its government portal. The existing
search engine for Indiana’s state portal was expensive
to run, and was not meeting the needs of state citizens
and businesses. The Google Search Appliance deployment
simplified administration of the portal's search engine
and increased the quality and speed of search results. Read
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Goal: Help visitors access program and
station information
Business name: Public Broadcasting Systems (PBS)
Industry: Media
Deployment: Public Website |
PBS.org,
the most visited dot-org site in the world needed to
improve the quality of search
on its website to match the quality programming users
expect from PBS. The Google Search Appliance solved
PBS’s search problem and also simplified life
for the IT team. Read
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Goal: Improve access to documents in a
distributed environment
Business name: University of Florida
Industry: Education
Deployment: Public Website |
The University of Florida needed a search
solution that could quickly provide relevant results
from hundreds of servers in a highly distributed, heterogeneous
environment. Using the Google Search Appliance, University
of Florida students and personnel now get the exact data
that they need by performing simple search queries. Read
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Goal: Reduce the cost; improve the quality
of search
Business name: World Bank
Industry: International Aid
Deployment: Intranet |
The
World Bank staff was searching inefficiently on an intranet
spanning hundreds of content sources
and the Bank was spending too much money maintaining
search. Switching to Google, enabled the World Bank
to deliver one centralized user-friendly search engine
for its intranet and will cost the Bank less than one-fifth
what the prior search tool would have cost for maintenance
alone. Read
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Goal: Provides sales force with
easy access to information
Business name: Xerox
Organization type: Document Management
Deployment: Intranet |
Xerox, the leader in document management,
deployed the Google Search Appliance to improve its internal
document management. Since Xerox started using the Google
Search Appliance, complaints from the sales force about
the difficulty of finding crucial documents have ceased. Read
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