The FlexiSearch application was designed to provide all the functionality a DA provider needs to aggregate, manage, optimize and search directory data. Built expressly for high-speed, high-volume requests, FlexiSearch offers these distinctive features:

• Multiple information services driven by a unified data source, simplifying data management

• Acceptance of data in a multitude of formats, allowing new services to come on line sooner

• Expanded fields linking to complex data, making enhanced services possible

• Native proximity search support to find the closest listings for location-based services

• Powerful search tools supporting diverse requests from operators, automation systems, Internet browsers and messaging protocols.

Among the benefits these new features deliver are the ability to combine dynamic and non-dynamic information, such as integrating listing data with driving directions, traffic conditions, weather information and maps; better ability to measure demand, enabling operators to adjust their business strategy more easily; database consolidation, which can reduce costs; and greater ability to segment customer sets.

FlexiSearch’s XML-defined database schemas allow a company to uniquely  meet its data storage requirements. FlexiSearch supports the standard IBM and ISx record formats of the past, in addtion to customer defined well-formed data record formats popular today. As the data is loaded, FlexiSearch tools edit, clean and optimize the records for easy access and high-speed retrieval.

With FlexiSearch, increasingly complex searches can be constructed using an “AND”, “OR”, range and “best of” logic. Result sets can be further refined through filtering technology. Included with the base search support are all-new geo-spatial functions that enable integration of the user’s content with location-based services.

FlexiSearch provides complete scalability, redundancy, and worldwide Unicode language support.