Analyst firm Gartner put Microsoft at the top of its "leaders" category for information access technology, which includes enterprise search. The ranking is part of an Oct. 1-revised Gartner Magic Quadrant 2008 report. Gartner predicts that revenue for the global enterprise search market will reach $1.5 billion by 2012, growing from $860.3 million in 2007.
Gartner defines "information access technology" as solutions that find information for retrieval and analysis by end users. Enterprise search solutions are considered a key part of this category. Other capabilities, such as federated search, content classification and clustering, are included in Gartner's definition.
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