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Google and Bearing Point Services are a Team Now

February 15, 2006

Google has hit upon a partnership with Consultancy and Systems Integrator, Bearing Point to sell Google enterprise search products clubbed with Bearing Point Services.

With the increasing efforts on the part of Google to enhance its credibility as a provider of enterprise IT products, the striking of this partnership between Google and Bearing Point is one of the most significant partnerships to date with a large IT service provider.

Google is widely seen in the industry as a provider of low-end enterprise search systems that primarily appeal to the users because of its simplicity to use, easy to set up and maintain, and are generally less expensive offerings from competing vendors such as Autonomy, Verity , and Fast Search & Transfer.

Bearing Point's decision to build a new enterprise search practice around Google's products is a bet on the products' ease of use and effectiveness versus what it considers a more complicated approach from other vendors, even if many industry analysts view competing products as more powerful and sophisticated. With integration services and application plug-ins, Bearing Point will tailor deployments of Google enterprise search products to vertical industries such as pharmaceuticals, banking and financial services. It has also built extensions for specific third-party data stores and enterprise applications.

Source: InfoWorld