Web Enabling Your HP 3000

OMNIDEX for the Web from DISC

Browser-based applications now come in many flavors, from e-commerce sites to company

intranets to extranets, all designed for various purposes. However, as these Web applications

grow in sophistication, all share a common requirement. The need to display the “freshest”

data possible by integrating dynamically changing content from so-called “production” data-

bases, often Image/SQL, to browser-based front-ends.

Users have grown in sophistication as well. Most are now comfortable utilizing keyword

lookups to navigate the web. Users expect answers fast regardless of where the Web

“content” happens to originate from. Web (html) search engines allow searches by any

combination of words located anywhere on a Web page, so users naturally expect the same abil-

ities from “new” Web-enabled database applications as well. Unfortunately, most databases

do not support instant keyword searching or complex criteria searching. Until now...

OMNIDEX for the Web from Dynamic Information Systems Corporation (DISC) delivers the

search capabilities and speed required for highly demanding Web applications, transform-

ing the HP e3000 into a “real-time” content provider.

OMNIDEX allows access to information the way people think - by the content of the data. It

allows users to select by keywords across any combination of fields using AND, OR, NOT. For

example, when a user enters the keywords “Internet OR Web”, OMNIDEX can instantly find

phrases such as “OMNIDEX for the Web”. This powerful keyword search technology has

enhanced the Image database with name and description lookups for 15 years, and it far sur-

passes conventional database indexing to this day.

In addition to production databases, OMNIDEX can index HTML, Word and ASCII text docu-

ments. Moreover, OMNIDEX enhances data warehousing applications with new indexes that

provide unlimited multidimensional analysis and high-speed dynamic data aggregations, elimi-

nating the need for summary tables. In short, OMNIDEX for the Web allows data from multiple

databases, platforms, and sources such as online applications, data warehouses, and docu-

ments, all to be instantly available from a company’s Web site. Users immediately obtain the

information they need, with one consistent method to access data across the enterprise.

OMNIDEX for the Web supports JAVA, Javascript, and Active-X, as well as CGI with Perl or

C/ C++ through the OMNIDEX API, Object Library, or JNI. It interfaces to web-enabled front-

end tools and includes DISC’s State Manager for high-performance, persistent-state database

connections and transactions. OMNIDEX supports multiple databases including Image/SQL,

relational databases and flat files. It runs on numerous platforms including HP e3000 MPE/iX,

HP 9000/HP-UX, and HP NetServer.