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January 18, 2006: Google's Desktop Search (Enterprise version) functionality is to be incorporated in Documentum Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services in order to enable organisation and retrieval of 'unstructured data'.

"Unstructured data" in this context refers to the crucial files that, despite the best efforts of ERM and EDM systems and implementers, are still stored locally on desktop PC hard disks. The enterprise version of the Google engine is being used as it enables more granular control of search options.

The desktop search element is to be an addition to Documentum Version 5.3.It is an extension of the Google/EMC alliance that began in 2004 as Documentum was bundled the Google Search Appliance.

The provision of local desktop searching, according to EMC's director of marketing, Lubor Ptacek, derives from the fact that: "Analysts are saying that a huge chunk of data resides on user desktops". This obviously indicates that the education of end-users in relation to enterprise document management still has some way to go.

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