Coveo Solutions has released Enterprise Search 4.0, an offering designed for secure, unified search across all documents and multimedia content located in file systems, databases, enterprise applications, e-mail servers, intranets and Web sites. The company has also unveiled Enterprise Search for SharePoint 4.0, which, the company says, is a version that integrates seamlessly with Microsoft SharePoint while also securely finding content in repositories in the corporate network.

Coveo reports new capabilities in Version 4.0 include:

• an improved user interface supporting faceted search, saved queries and an interface editor;

• the ability to securely search across Lotus Notes, Novell Netware, sound, image and video files;

• an open crawler API to index virtually any data source;

• the ability to scale to more than 100 million documents with load-balancing and distributed indexing across multiple servers;

• personalized rating that enhances relevancy via user behavior tracking;

• collaborative ranking that enhances relevancy by applying personalized ratings through groups of related individuals;

• support for Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese and Korean languages;

• richer real-time analysis and comprehensive reporting for administrators; and

• 10 percent to 25 percent faster query and indexing performance over the previous release.

Thirty-day free trials of both products are available from the Coveo site.