What do Google®, Microsoft®, Yahoo!®, Apple® and EasyReach™ have in common? They all offer desktop search applications that allow you to quickly search for files stored on your local computer and networked drives or folders. The one difference: EasyReach offers remote desktop access via your cell phone, smartphone or wireless handheld PDA.
Searching the Internet everyday using Google, Yahoo! or other search engines has become a basic fact of life for many. Can you imagine using the Internet without such search tools? Of course not: Search and the Internet have become synonymous! Over the past year or so the same has been quietly happening for the information that's on your PC and the networked files your computer can access: it's called “desktop search,” or DTS.
Here's how it works: a desktop search application is downloaded to your PC. Once you install it, the program uses sophisticated search engine technology to create a central index of the files that reside on your computer. These typically include your Outlook e-mails, contacts, calendar items, tasks, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and other documents in a variety of file formats. The EasyReach solution, for example, indexes over 350 files types!
These programs not only index the alphanumeric content (i.e. readable text) of the documents but the file names as well. This allows a DTS central index to include pictures, songs, videos and a range of files that do not contain readable text. You simply search for items using a keyword or phrase and results are returned instantly. Gone are the days when Windows users have to wait – and wait - for Microsoft's built-in search feature to complete a search (in fact, the Microsoft version of a desktop search application is available now from their website as well as from MSN). Desktop search is such an important application for consumers that Microsoft will be including it in their next operating system, code-named Vista , due out in 2007. Make no mistake: desktop search is here to stay and if you aren't already using one of the many solutions available, you soon will be.
Why? Because today's information workers aren't just managing information, they're drowning in it. According to the information intelligence market leader IDC:
“Timely access to critical information can separate the winners from the losers in today's information economy, yet the amount of time wasted in futile searching for vital information is enormous, leading to staggering costs to the enterprise.”
Desktop search is the most convenient way to find and retrieve critical enterprise and personal information. It's lightning fast and your search results are returned virtually instantaneously because of the central index stores all your files and is updated as the new ones come in. According to a study by the leading global management consulting and technology services company, Accenture,
“The amount of content created will double in the next two years. That makes it more important than ever for information workers to be able find the right content quickly.”
The less time people spend looking for information they need, the more productive they – and the entire enterprise – will be. That's the power – and the growing appeal – of desktop search, enabling users to easily find what they need from thousands of e-mails, documents and other files on their PCs.
However, wouldn't you like to take the next logical step and easily search for important information any time, from anywhere – making you even more productive?
Enter the unique EasyReach Find & Deliver service. Imagine this: you're away from the office and a client calls you on your mobile phone to request a product specification sheet. What to do? Make a mental note? Add yet another to-do item to the list? Not with EasyReach. You've got Google Desktop Search installed on your remote computer so you simply fire up EasyReach from your smartphone (such as a Blackberry or Palm Treo) and do a remote Google Desktop search using keywords or phrases. When you find the document you want, simply e-mail or fax it to the client – all in about ten seconds! Nothing hits your to-do list. You are freed from worry. You simply act on the new request.
EasyReach provides fast, secure, on-demand access to the information that is critical to your business and personal success. EasyReach uses advanced secure communication architectures that include industry-standard SSL and U.S. government-standard 128-bit AES encryption. And EasyReach is IT friendly, working with your company's existing security and firewalls.
While EasyReach offers its own powerful desktop search-and-indexing system, the service will also work with any of the popular desktop offerings. In 2006, EasyReach is compatible with Google Desktop Search, and in 2007 the company will support Microsoft's Windows Desktop Search application in the Vista OS, as well as Apple's Spotlight desktop search application
EasyReach helps you stay more productive by keeping you connected to clients, colleagues and calendars via the Internet, conducting online meetings and exchanging documents anytime, anywhere. While desktop search is here to stay, only one company can remotely search you desktop and deliver the results you need – all in ten seconds. That company is EasyReach.
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