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Endeca (discontinued)

Score7.2 out of 10

131 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Endeca (discontinued)?

Endeca was a business intelligence platform for analyzing unstructured data, acquired by Oracle and since discontinued.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Endeca (discontinued) has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 131 ratings of Endeca (discontinued)'s features
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Top Performing Features

  • Responsive Design for Web Access

    Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Mobile Application

    A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

    In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Themeable User Interface (UI)

    A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it

    Category average: 7.8

  • Customizable Platform (Open Source)

    A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

    Category average: 7.7

  • Integration with R or other statistical packages

    Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

    Category average: 7.9

Reviews

What users are saying about Endeca (discontinued).
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Endeca - A Powerful Tool In The Right Hands

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • It provides powerful search functionality.
  • It adds functionality for navigation which makes it much easier for customers to use our commerce site and find what they are looking for.

Cons

  • More documentation for the product would be very useful.
  • The product almost requires training in order to be able to use it effectively. Knowledge of HTML is a must.

Other Software Used

RoboForm, Oracle SCM Cloud, Oracle ERP Cloud, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office 365, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox

Oracle Endeca - Powerful way to Increase Website Conversions

Incentivized
Jack HuiView profile
Marketing Manager in Marketing at Go Big L.A. (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Simplifying our cross-channel selling strategy.
  • Improving search for customers.
  • Increasing sales from our multiple selling channels.

Cons

  • Steep learning curve.
  • Difficult to set up.

Return on Investment

  • Increase in revenue from improved search and recommendations for our customers.
  • Increase in revenue from cross-platform selling and reminders.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle ATG Web Commerce

Other Software Used

Oracle ATG Web Commerce, Oracle Social Relationship Management (SRM), IBM Sterling CPQ

Good for the basics, but not the best search tool out there.

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Possibly the best tool for a basic/simple search platform implementation
  • XQuery works well
  • Rule Manager is a very useful tool

Cons

  • Endeca's page builder is not fit to be an enterprise product - it is just BAD!
  • It is not easy for a non-user to understand Endeca quickly
  • Multi-index search (or any complex search implementation) is not easy to setup in Endeca

Alternatives Considered

Apache Solr

Other Software Used

Apache Solr, Inbenta Enterprise Search

Happy Enterprise Campers

Alex Lokshin
Search, Content & Navigation Architect, ECommerce in Information Technology at Office Depot (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Landing page creation with Experience Manager
  • Operational performance and stability
  • Feature set
  • Business tool set
  • Product roadmap (Oracle Commerce V11)

Cons

  • No well defined commuity
  • Sizable learning curve
  • Feature set managed without involving the customer base

Return on Investment

  • Faster development turnaround
  • Rich feature set
  • Effortless data mining
  • A/B testing of relevancy algorithms led to an improvement in overall conversion
  • Robust user experience

Endeca can be a good solution for your company, if your company has the right attributes.

Leandro Berretta
Technical Specialist in Information Technology at InComm (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Filtering
  • Fast reads and data extraction from large data sets
  • Good user interface and tools to support the technology.

Cons

  • Better documentation that can be accessed easily
  • Simplify the product and its dependencies

Return on Investment

  • In one project, that involved business performance. It has allowed us to determine ROI real time per employee. It allowed us to determine per employee value by calculating return per employee. This measure took a number of factors into consideration.
  • Better on the fly reporting with out the added cost of report development
  • Provided customer's with faster answers to business questions that can not wait for new reports to be developed. This allows the business to react before is too late.

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