MINNEAPOLIS, MN, June 17, 2014 – Fishbowl Solutions, Inc., a software, services and consulting company delivering solutions to the PTC marketplace, announced their Google Search Appliance Connector for PTC Windchill. This integration provides PTC Windchill customers with the ability to leverage industry leading Google search technology to search across CAD documents, WTParts, promotion requests and change objects – while adhering to the user and group-specific security parameters an organization already has in place.
Content in the enterprise is typically stored across multiple repositories such as databases, file shares, and one or more document management systems. Without a unified system to search across all this information, some knowledge will remain hidden and the high-value assets created by workers cannot be used to support design, manufacturing, or research objectives.
Fishbowl’s Google Search Appliance (GSA) Connector utilizes Google’s connector framework to feed items from PTC Windchill to the GSA for indexing. This enables PTC Windchill customers to take advantage of Google’s world-class relevancy algorithms and search experience capabilities. It also means PTC Windchill content can be searched alongside information for other enterprise repositories from a single search page.
This single search experience is all made possible by the GSA, which is an on premise search solution that brings the power and reach of Google search to company intranets, websites, or portal systems. The GSA builds on the accuracy of google.com by including business-specific features such as query suggestions, synonyms, and document previews to meet the needs of the enterprise.
Fishbowl’s GSA Connector for PTC Windchill is available directly from Fishbowl Solutions. Additional features of the connector include:
- Intelligent Content Feed
♦ PDF viewable when available
♦ Native content for selected types
♦ Dynamic HTML for other objects
- Higher Priority Event Driven Feeds
♦ Check-in, Revise, Promote, Delete
- Lower Priority Crawl – for existing content
Fishbowl Solutions will be demonstrating their GSA Connector for PTC Windchill in booth 214 at the PTC Live Global conference from June 15 through 18 in Boston, Massachusetts.
“PTC Windchill provides customers with one central source of information to manage a product throughout its lifecycle; however, information in an organization is rarely confined to one source or system. It is critical to provide workers with access to associated information regardless of where it is stored,” said Rick Passolt, business development manager, Fishbowl Solutions. “Fishbowl’s GSA Connector for PTC Windchill provides organizations with fast and secure access to enterprise content that drives business processes and helps maximize their PTC Windchill investment.”
For more information on Fishbowl’s GSA Connector for PTC Windchill, visit Fishbowl Solutions’ website at www.fishbowlsolutions.com or contact mcadsales@fishbowlsolutions.com.
About Fishbowl Solutions
Fishbowl Solutions was founded in 1999 and is differentiated by its unparalleled industry and technology expertise, its solid reputation for on-time delivery, its value-added results, and its clear-thinking, accountable and knowledgeable people.
Fishbowl Solutions is a PTC Partner Advantage Program member at the Gold tier, as well as a Google Enterprise Partner. It providesadd-on products, migration, and customization services for PTC Creo, PTC Windchill, and PTC Pro/INTRALINK software solutions. It also has extensive experience with PTC Pro/TOOLKIT, PTC Pro/INTRALINK Toolkit and PTC Windchill APIs. Fishbowl also provides GSA implementation and consulting services, as well as integration software for Oracle WebCenter Content, Oracle WebCenter Portal, and YouTube.
