Manufacturing
Leading manufacturing companies, such as Kimberly Clark, have turned to the Google Search Appliance to provide instant, secure access to all enterprise information. The Google Search Appliance is an integrated hardware and software product that uses Google's powerful search engine technology to bring universal search to your business.


How you'll benefit
  • Increase productivity - According to research from IDC and Accenture, knowledge workers spend more than 25% of their time searching for information, often unsuccessfully. With Google's universal search, your engineers and other employees can find what they're looking for in less time, so you can increase your productivity and pace of innovation.

  • Easy management of distributed information - No need to embark on the challenging and costly task of integrating multiple databases in multiple locations. With the Google Search Appliance, you'll have immediate access to all your company's information through convenient search.

  • Connect the value chain - Your employees, suppliers, partners, distributors and customers will all be able to search and find relevant information, with security features to ensure that any given user's results only include information that he or she is authorized to view.

Customer Impact

"It now takes our sales executives 15 seconds to find something they used to burn 30 minutes looking for."

- Jim Cahill, Marketing Communications Manager, Emerson Process Management


Emerson Process Management - Emerson Process, a subsidiary of Emerson Electric, is a $4.9 billion organization with more than 3500 employees across 85 countries. Emerson develops process management solutions for companies with complex manufacturing processes. Emerson Emerson deployed the Google Search Appliance on its Intranet to facilitate sales and marketing teams to quickly access product and pricing information to provide to customers. Within a few weeks of launching, the Google Search Appliance was searching over 68 servers and providing immediate impact. According to Jim Cahill, Marketing Communications Manager, "Many of the [sales executives] have told us that this is the best thing we have ever done for them. We are extremely pleased with the results relevancy of the Google Search Appliance."

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Alcoa - Alcoa, the world's leading producer of primary aluminum and fabricated aluminum, had a corporate communications project to address the search needs of the MyAlcoa portal. The primary purpose was to make HR policies and forms easily searchable, and they chose the Google Search Appliance.



Kimberly Clark - Kimberly-Clark Corporation manufactures and markets a range of health and hygiene products in over 80 countries (their brands include Kleenex, Scott and Huggies). In order to better manage their internal information, Kimberly Clark deployed the Google Search Appliance across enterprise-wide internal content, includeing the company's intranet, databases and file servers. After evaluating other options, they chose Google because of its superior search results, unified search and desktop search capabilities.



Xerox - Global leader in manufacturing and document management solutions. The Xerox Office Group employs more than 1,100, and the group intranet contains thousands of PDF and HTML files, and a smaller number of Microsoft Office files. After deploying the Google Search Appliance, the sales team has been able to spend less time searching - and more time selling. "Since we started using the Google Search Appliance," says Smith, "the sales force is able to find what they're looking for, and we've stopped receiving complaints."

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