The Big Picture
The modern corporation must make sense of exploding amounts of information spread across dozens of organizational silos. In the past, structured data (product records, transaction logs)—the domain of databases—has been irreconcilable with unstructured information (documents, web pages)—the traditional realm of search engines. The result: management has no unified view of the organization, only portholes into a patchwork of disconnected repositories.
THE ALLURE OF SEARCH-BASED APPLICATIONS
A new generation of technology is changing what's possible within the enterprise. Search-based applications—purpose-built business applications backed by a search engine rather than a database—enable companies to bring divergent silos of information together in one place, and to integrate both structured and unstructured information sources. Search-based applications are already being used by Fortune 50's and startups alike to create next-generation solutions for everything from business intelligence and eDiscovery, to media monitoring and intelligence analysis, to pure enterprise search.
Though praise for search-based applications abounds, they have yet to reach their full potential. Since search-based applications are custom built, development effort can be steep and the user experience often falls short of expectations. What's more, search-based applications are typically contingent on being able to consolidate information sources into a single search index, often not practical because of data governance and security concerns.
BETTER, FASTER
That's where we come in. TwigKit is the missing link in search-based applications, standardizing communication with diverse data repositories, slashing development time, and delivering a superb user experience that fits within the enterprise. By abstracting access to search engines, data warehouses, web search engines, and custom APIs, TwigKit provides organizations with a modern, rapid development framework. And by distilling user research, refined interaction design, and cross-browser compatible markup and styling into configurable, extendable user interface components, TwigKit delivers a slick user experience regardless of the underlying platform. Furthermore, TwigKit is built to slot into any enterprise architecture, run on any platform, and integrate seamlessly with security systems.
“TwigKit is the missing link in search-based applications, standardizing communication with diverse data repositories, slashing development time, and delivering a superb user experience that fits within the enterprise.”
In other words, TwigKit enables the enterprise to build rich search-based applications better and faster than ever before.
