2. OVERVIEW
Did you know that your employees spend up to half their
time looking for specific and relevant
information—information they can use to accomplish their
tasks, bringing value to your organization?
As data and content within your organization grows
exponentially, you find yourself in the position of searching for
solutions designed to increase productivity of your
employees in managing data and finding the answers they
need within reach. In many situations, this leads to extra
efforts: more hardware, more people, more time, in other
words - more resources, more costs.
WHAT ABOUT SEARCH PERFORMANCE
AND ACCURACY?
The performance of any organization depends in a great
extent on how well its employees use information in order to
make decisions and do their everyday tasks. In order to
accomplish these, they have to find the information they
need in due time, demanding faster and easier ways to locate
the information they need for decision making and task
completion.
Moreover, what happens with your customers/business
partners/objectives? What kind of impact can search
speed and accuracy have on your reputation, business
and overall efficiency?
With X-Search you can eliminate barriers and ease access
to data so that the right people can easily find, analyze
and use relevant information within your organization!
2 X-Search
HIGHLIGHTS
Unparalleled precision and speed every
time, every search
Relevant answers - the exact
information you need when you need it
Implementation ease
Highly performance and functional on
BIG Data queries.
From ten to a thousand times faster than
other search solutions
Search algorithms bring ranked
searching - best results are returned first
Allows update and searching (after
Reaload)
TAKING ENTERPRISE
SEARCH SOLUTIONS TO THE
NEXT LEVEL
搜索
搜索
搜索
tìm kiếm
ﺑﺣﺙ
ﺑﺣﺙﺑﺣﺙ
זוכן
זוכן
αναζήτηση
αναζήτηση
поиск
search
relevant
ﺍﻟﺻﻠﺔ ﺫﺍﺕ
ַטיקיבאַטי
ַטיקיבאַטי
ַטיקיבאַטי
相應
доречний доречний
доречний
σχετικές
ﺳﺭﻳﻊﺳﺭﻳﻊ
ﺳﺭﻳﻊ
ﺳﺭﻳﻊ
ﺳﺭﻳﻊ
fast快
快
שנעל
γρήγορα
ﺩﻗﺔ
ﺩﻗﺔ
accuracy
accuracy
ﻏﺎﻣﺽ
fuzzy
fuzzy
模糊
world
最快的
ファジー
ファジー
ファジー
ファジー
関連した
уместный
engine エンジン
RESEARCH
3. X-SEARCH IS AN ENTERPRISE SEARCH
SOLUTION DESIGNED TO RUN
QUERIES BASED ON PARTIAL DATA
KNOWLEDGE
WHAT DOES X SEARCH MEAN?
X-Search is Fuzzy Searching!
Fuzzy searching uses a proprietary algorithm to find search
terms even if they are misspelled. No matter how accurate
you are in your search, even if you don’t have all the
information, X Search will bring you the most relevant result.
X SEARCH IS SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR BIG
DATA AND ENHANCES YOUR EXISTING
SYSTEMS!
Researchers claim that 80% of enterprise content is
unstructured (stored in things like Word docs and .pdfs, as
opposed to structured data bases, CRM systems, etc .), and it
seems that content volume is growing at a rate of 200%
annually . At this rate, the volume of data stored in many
organizations may reach the point of “too much information”
– in other words, where the levels of information actually
interfere with productivity rather than contribute to it.
X-Search is a solution that enhances all your other
systems, being like a missing piece of your puzzle,
completing your search circuit. It makes locating key
information simple, straightforward and quick. Users can
rapidly access the information they need and then take action
— completing a task, solving a problem or advancing a
business process. Most important aspect is integration with
existing relational and non-relational data systems.
3 X-Search
Search Faster. Get Accurate
Results. Save Time!
When SEARCH means
discovery, not chase!
Taking enterprise Search
solutions to the next level
RESEARCH
4. X-SEARCH. HOW DOES IT WORK?
Name / Address / Signature (NAS) Database
NAS Databases allow storing relevant text strings and
performing queries based on potentially inaccurate
information. These errors may come from misspellings,
phonetic similarities, transliteration differences, omitting some
parts of names, use of abbreviations, etc.
Regular Expressions Database, based on which the system
can identify elements of interest in texts / streams.
Regular expressions are used to extract interesting parts from
texts. They can be certain formulations, places, personal
names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, etc. In
general, these names identified in the text are called
"entities". Therefore, their identification in the text is called
“Named Entity Recognition” (NER).
FUNCTIONS
All features in the administrative interface apply regardless of
databases stored:
• API Interface: Simple REST interface for all operational
needs.
• Network connectivity: lets you define specific parameters
for network connection such as IP address, API port, subnet
mask, gateway server, the DNS server.
• Import / export settings: allows you to save and restore
system settings.
• Import / Export database: allows you to create database
backups in the system; export functionality is based on
achieving a "snapshot" of the database, which is first stored
in a special area in the appliance. Any snapshot can be
downloaded after it has been created.
• Appliance Control: Allows you to restart the application,
the server or to shut it down
• Information: You can access information regarding the
equipment being used and the status of running
applications. This information may be particularly useful to
identify potential problems and to correct them.
• Database Management: allows creating and deleting
databases and perform operations on them.
HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY
Employees can be more productive and
make a greater contribution to their
organization if they can more easily find
and use the information they need
IMPROVED CUSTOMER SERVICE
By helping service representatives
answer customer questions and solve
problems more quickly, efficiently and
completely which leads to satisfied
customers
OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT
AND LOWER IT EXPENSES
By reducing dependency on numerous
systems and integration points
IMPROVED QUALITY OF
DECISIONS
By making the relevant information
available
HIGHER SALES
By making crucial information more
readily available to the sales force
REDUCED COSTS
As implies energy and maintenance
savings, requires less human capital
(costs with training, IT professionals),
less costs with hardware
BENEFITS
CreativityGoals
Development
people
strategy
mission
knowledge
organizations
environment
question
environment
ideal
analysis
situation
desired
security
one
short
important
External
archive
Rank
years
important
edit
important
many
planning
future
future
goal
future
future
sometimes
also
software
vision
intui
values
business
plan
objectives
technology
innovation
IntuitiveFuzzy
Database
peoplestrategy
strategy
strategy
names
knowledge
organizations
environment
question
environment
ideal
fast
situation
effective
desired
security
one
one
one
short
important
External
fast
search
Rank
years
important
edit
important
many
planning
future
future
goal
future
scalable
future
future
sometimes
also
also
software
vision
visionrobust
values
business
plan
objectives
objectives
technology
responsive
robust
technology
innovation
4 X-Search RESEARCH
5. FEATURES
All databases in the system, regardless of their type, support
a number of common operations such as:
• Create: name and associated are specified
• Delete: removes all associated files from the disk
• Reload: allows updating data from the memory, using the
files stored on disk
• Turn on "debug": information is generated regarding
activities on the database, including data accessing time
• Display Information: You can access information about
the number of entries and space on the disk and in the
memory
• Input: Manual add values in each database
• Query: Perform the desired query.
SEARCH TYPES
• Phonetic searching finds words that sound alike, like Smythe
in a search for Smith.
• Allows * to hold multiple letter places: apple* and not
appl?sauce.
• Regular expressions support provides a way to search for
combinations of characters.
• Enables searching for patterns of numbers.
• Unicode support allows for searching of all Unicode-based
international languages, including support for “right to left” (
by transliteration)
PERFORMANCE
X-Search speed is influenced by:
• Number of records in the database
• The size of the database names
• Hardware architecture (number of computing cores
available)
INTUITIVE
X Search intuitive, user friendly interface
can reduce the need for training and
dramatically increase the level of
adoption by the users. The common,
simple and familiar interface is the key to
user adoption, allowing the delivery of
the timely, relevant content required by
employees to do their jobs.
FAST AND RESPONSIVE
X Search provides rapid return of search
results with millisecond performance on
millions/billions of records.
COST-EFFECTIVE
X Search does not require complex
administration, is easy to use and
inexpensive to deploy.
SCALABLE
X-Search is a dedicated ultra-scalable
appliance, designed as an add-on to any
existing system.
ROBUST
As an enterprise utility, X Search is highly
available and tolerates disruption of the
surrounding infrastructure.
CHARACTERISTICS
5 X-Search RESEARCH
7. 7 X-Search
X-Search works as a highly scalable and
extremely fast add-on to any existing
running system. Integration is easy and
executed by offering a full API for all
features of the system. It does not
require any additional licenses and does
not rely on third-party solutions /
algorithms, and also does not require any
internet connection.
FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
The globalization process has brought to surface more
dangerous aspects too: globalization of criminal activities,
organizations, activists. As there are no global unique
identifiers for these people and organizations, exchanging
information about them is often difficult and exposed to
frequent mistakes.
Finding “the needle in the haystack” is a pretty challenging
task, especially when the “needle” disguises itself by making
small alterations to his name (word order, abbreviations,
phonetic errors, spelling conventions, etc). Advanced
technological solutions are required in order to facilitate the
search process in this new context. Existing features provided
by major database providers are implementing Sound Like
algorithms for English language only, and does not cover any
typing mistakes.
X-Search is a revolutionary system that indeed facilitates
finding similar names, addresses or signatures based on
partial/uncertain data knowledge. The solution it is not
language dependent and also it does not increase the
number of false positives; it just highlights a whole new range
of hidden positives.
X-Search is fully configurable by each customer, being able
to manage all aspects: databases, specific values, original
keys, transliterations, phonetic dictionaries, user access and
integration settings. All searches executed by the system are
fully audited by the system with full visibility to authorized
users at all details: user, IP, date, search string, duration.
RESEARCH
8. BOSTON SUSPECT'S MISSPELLED NAME
TRIPPED UP FBI, SENATOR SAYS
CBSNEWS / APRIL 22, 2013
FBI DIDN’T KNOW OF RUSSIA TRIP DUE TO
MISSPELLED NAME
BOSTON GLOBE / APRIL 22, 2013
FBI DIDN'T KNOW BOSTON BOMBER
TRAVELED TO VOLATILE DAGESTAN REGION
IN RUSSIA IN 2012 BECAUSE 'HIS NAME WAS
MISSPELLED ON TRAVEL DOCUMENTS'
MAIL ONLINE / APRIL 22, 2013
TAMERLAN
TSARNAEV
Tamerlan Tsaev
Tamelan Tsaev
Tamerl Antarnaev
Tamerlan Tsarnev 99%
95%
97%
97%
96%
95%
Thamerl Tarnev
Taemrlan Tsarnev
98%Tamerlan Sarnev
95%Thamelan Sarnew
8 X-Search RESEARCH
9. HIGHLY SCALABLE
X-Search performance can be adjusted
by additional standard commercially
available hardware
NAME-MATCHING AGAINST
LISTS OF KNOWN PARTIES
Searching of any list like PEP, OFAC,
GWL, Most Wanted Lists can be
seriously enhanced by using X-Search
Fuzzy approach.
FOR LIST MANAGEMENT
In any industry, dealing with names of companies, people,
organizations, products, institutions, substances,
books/magazines is a difficult job as these titles are very
much related to their original cultural and linguistic
characteristics. Dealing with this cross-cultural information
often proves difficult, requires time and is always subject of
potential human mistakes, misspellings and critical errors.
Whether we deal with Customer List, VIP List, Black List,
Suspected List, Most Wanted List, Hot List, PEP Lists,
etc, extra attention is required for anybody registered; and as
“birds of feather flock together” just a small percentage of
similarity between several names in the same context can
raise relevant / important alarms.
As the names follow their own cultural rules (which
sometimes are very complex), it is important that once a
name is in a particular List, it should act like a magnet, by
automatically highlighting not only clear matches but also,
very near approximations.
X-Search is the best solution to be used as an add-on for
every system that is managing entities of any kind. It can
accommodate large databases, concurrent users and multiple
ranking criteria.
X-Search is the fastest solution commercially available that
can help the user find relevant information even when search
conditions are misspelled or partially known.
X-Search can instantly identify almost similar values using
complex proprietary algorithms. The entire solution is highly
scalable and extreme performance can be achieved on any
database size and number of concurrent users.
9 X-Search
7 SCORING FUNCTIONS
Transliterations, phonetic dictionaries,
word order, naming conventions, string
distance, missing words, abbreviations.
FUZZY LOGIC
No matter how accurate you are in your
search, even if you don’t have all the
information, X Search will bring you the
most relevant result.
RESEARCH
10. 5 X-Search
SPECIALLY DESIGNATED NATIONALS AND
BLOCKED PERSONS LIST
OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSTES CONTROL (OFAC)
DEBARRED & CROSS-DEBARRED FIRMS & INDIVIDUALS
WORLD BANK
EU TERROR LIST / REGIME
COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
MOST
WANTED
TERRORISTS
84%
Omar Shafik
Hammami
96%
Hakimullah Mehsud
78%
Daniel Andreas
San Diego
67%
Adam Yahiye
Gadahn
10 X-Search RESEARCH
11. FOR FINANCIAL SECTOR
Banks, insurance companies and other companies in the
financial sector are handling worldwide at second level
millions of transactions between individuals, organizations,
companies. The new security paradigms of today are
imposing special compliance procedures, Anti-Money
Laundry (AML) strategy, analysis and management of
various lists, and all of these mainly based on their name.
Screening customers and their transactions against known
lists is mandatory and non-compliance has executive
accountability with record high penalties. The risk of exposure
to fraudulent and terrorist activities has never been higher.
Part of AML strategy, the KYC (Know-Your-Customer)
policy includes CIP (Customer Identification Procedures)
that includes performing compliance actions like
Name-Matching against lists of known parties. As these
searches are based on names only and as global operations
cover different countries, cultures, name writing
characteristics and conventions can be a subject of high risk
of generating errors.
To solve these new challenges, X-Search proved to be a
reliable technological pillar, a true “work-horse” capable of
handling an unprecedented number of fuzzy searches per
second against databases reaching tens of millions of
records. In fact, X-Search is so fast and scalable that it can be
used in all daily operations and for all name /addresses / data
signature searches executed within your organization.
X-Search implements 7 advanced scoring functions with
adjustable levels so it can adapt to any business environment
and needs. The system dictionaries can be extended by
administrators, based on local experience and / or culture
characteristics.
X-Search can be implemented on-the-fly in any organization
by providing a reliable API interface accessible via standard
REST calls. Active databases can be updated live,
record-by-record or in bulk mode.
NAME-MATCHING AGAINST
LISTS OF KNOWN PARTIES
Searching of any list like PEP, OFAC,
GWL, Most Wanted Lists can be
seriously enhanced by using X-Search
Fuzzy approach.
INTEGRATION WITH LEGACY
SYSTEMS
X-Search is a dedicated appliance that
can be integrated via API interface.
EXTREME SCALABILITY
X-Search performance can be adjusted
by additional standard commercially
available hardware
11 X-Search RESEARCH
12. FOR SYSTEM INTEGRATORS
Bring more value to you customers, secure deals and
build projects with unique features offered by X-Search,
the world fastest fuzzy search engine. It can be extremely
easy integrated with any system that is executing queries over
existing databases (relational and non-relational).
X-Search can be used in special projects:
Adjusting the ranking parameters
Each scoring function can be weighted differently in the
overall scoring process. Based on each implementation
specifics, some functions can be disabled.
Adapting the system to new requirements
For large scale projects, custom scoring functions can be
developed on request and integrated in the system.
High-Scalable, High-Available
Speed and availability issues are solved elegantly with
X-Search computing infrastructure. It can be integrated with
load balancing systems for efficient deployment.
X-Search is successfully used in various domains like Financial
Sector, Law Enforcement, Retail, Public Administration,
Telco, Hospitality, Health
X-Search has a very flexible licensing model, by device, by
number, size and type of database stored. There are neither
limitations nor links with number of users. Licenses can be
upgraded within 12 months since last commercial transaction
for each end-customer. Any license purchased includes
subscription of 12 months of Regular Support Plan.
Deal commitment for any registered project by silver or gold
partners. Demo units are available at special rates.
7 SCORING FUNCTIONS
Transliterations, phonetic dictionaries,
word order, naming conventions, string
distance, missing words, abbreviations.
API INTERFACE
On-the-fly integration with any IT
systems through powerful REST
interface for all operations.
REGULAR EXPRESSION ENGINE
Easy define expression patterns like
email addresses, phone numbers, titles
and names, etc, and use X-Search as a
powerful Named Entity Detection
(NED) Engine.
9000 PROCESSING CORES IN
1U SERVER
With over 9000 processing cores, 30GB
of dedicated RAM, 128GB SSD storage
all in 1U server, X-Search handles at
millisecond level fuzzy queries against
over 100 million records database.
12 X-Search RESEARCH