Welcome to Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console

Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console is the application included in Perceptive Enterprise Search that allows you to access most of the Perceptive Search features from your desktop.

Perceptive Search finds what you want, when you want it, no matter the document format or its location. What sets Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console apart from other desktop search products is its ability to scale from a single PC through to large-scale corporate networks, not to mention its first-of-its-kind navigation and discovery features.

Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console is designed to enable rapid retrieval of information contained across disparate corporate data sources. A single Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console query lets you simultaneously search across a wide range of structured, semi-structured and unstructured formats, including word processing documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, XML data, SQL databases, Lotus Notes, enterprise software systems, web pages and email in less than a second.

Perceptive Enterprise Search and Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console features encompass:

• Indexing
  Perceptive Enterprise Search recognizes and indexes more than 200 different file formats. You select the computers, folders and files or other data resources to be incorporated into your index, as well as specify where the index is located, when updates will occur and how frequently.
• Searching
  Perceptive Enterprise Search supports both simple and sophisticated searching mechanisms to enable you to find the precise document you need as quickly as possible. Search methods include Natural Language Query, Fielded, Phrase Matching and our popular Menu-Assisted Query, for easily constructing advanced Boolean and proximity queries.
• Navigation
  Perceptive Enterprise Search automatically categorizes your documents as they are indexed, giving your results more context, and allowing users to navigate and refine a results list with a simple click of the mouse.
• Discovery
  Perceptive Enterprise Search enables users to better understand the who, what and where of a given result list, thanks to Perceptive Search Entities. The only desktop search application offering this feature, Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console automatically extracts entities such as names, places, email addresses and more.
• Retrieval
  With Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console, you can preview a result’s contents to ensure it is the right one. Preview features include a built-in preview pane, complete with hit highlighting and hit-to-hit navigation; a Tool Tip window, which displays relevant document information and meta data; and Context of Hits view, which shows only the portions of a document with your search terms shown in their context.
• Display
  Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console can display your documents in the Perceptive Search Browser, or let you view them in their original applications, if they are available. You can annotate documents with virtual notes and attach photos, video or sound files or actions, all without altering the original document.

Perceptive Enterprise Search is made by Perceptive Software (formally ISYS Search Software), a global supplier of enterprise search solutions dedicated to one purpose – helping people find information fast. More than 19 years of development have gone into Perceptive Enterprise Search, which translates into mature, highly effective technology designed to ensure employees spend less time searching for information and more time working with it.