Usefulness of the SAP Netweaver Search Engine

[Former Member]

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Rob

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[RichHeilman · Accepted solution]

Hi Rob, you mean TREX?

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Rich - thanks for replying.

As I understand it, the Netweaver Search requires TREX to be installed, and we have done that. But the search engine uses TREX to do the work, so I'm asking about the SAP product.

Rob

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Rob,

as you already did, we have to distinguish between two products/components:

SAP NetWeaver Search and Classification TREX (search engine)

SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search (appliance for connecting searchable systems and for federating search results)

Enterprise Search (ES) as an appliance will be installed by SAP Hardware Partners only and needs to be installed on seperate hardware. ES uses TREX as search engine for searching across business objects and documents/file. TREX will be installed on appliance hardware box as part of the overall ES installation. Current ES version is ES 7.0 SP1. ERP 2005 systems can be connected to the ES appliance by means of connectors.

see ES 7.0 SP1 docu on Help Portal, Connecting SAP ERP Systems

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwes70/helpdata/en/f2/d3195b835246a59ef5bc0db51f2612/frameset.htm

For details about SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search, see also:

Enterprise Search on SDN:

BLOG SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search - Looking for Info? (by Karsten Hohage)

/people/karsten.hohage/blog/2007/12/20/sap-netweaver-enterprise-search--looking-for-info

SDN PAGE: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-search

Enterprise Search (appliance) on Help Portal:

http://help.sap.com/nwes70

Introducing Enterprise Search

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwes70/helpdata/en/d5/d79d937d8c47519c254de44b1aa517/frameset.htm

Search and Classification TREX on Help Portal

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/47/1b074063616446e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm

Best regards,

Ralph

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Ralph - thanks for your time and input.

I'm really looking for user experiences on this though. Is it an "Omigosh, I wish we had this years ago" product or is it a "nice to have" or can you take it or leave it?

What kind of impact does it have on the business process?

Rob