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Watson Explorer is available in two editions, an Enterprise Edition (EE) and an Advanced Edition (AE).
The modules described in the following sections are delivered as part of all editions. The
functionality of the modules does not differ across editions.
The Watson Explorer foundational components are comprised
of the following installable modules:
- Application Builder
- Simplifies developing 360-degree information applications that deliver targeted, relevant data
to users based on their roles or interests within the enterprise or a specific organization.
- BigIndex
- Provides a Java API for creating, configuring, and deploying information navigation applications
in enterprise environments. The BigIndex API includes
sophisticated functions that simplify or eliminate traditionally manual enterprise application
administration tasks such as load balancing, mirroring, and replication. The BigIndex API Developers Guide PDF can be downloaded from http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27044063.
- Watson Explorer Engine
- Provides a web-based development and deployment environment for enterprise information
navigation applications.
- Annotation Administration Console
- Provides a web-based administration tool for configuring custom and domain specific text
analytics that can enhance Watson Explorer 360-degree view and content mining applications.
- IBM Knowledge Center
- Provides online help for IBM
Watson Explorer Foundational
Components and IBM
Watson Explorer Analytical Components. By default,
online help within these applications contacts the public IBM Knowledge Center server to deliver
online help. Installing and starting a local installation of IBM Knowledge Center provides online
help for Watson Explorer in "dark" environments where development
systems may not have access to the Internet, and in environments where Internet access may be slow
or inconsistent.
- Results Module
- Enables local administrators of enterprise information navigation applications to easily extend
those applications with business-specific highlighting of selected query results and by
incorporating domain-specific knowledge such as taxonomies.
- ZooKeeper
- Provides a distributed coordination service and associated data repository for storing
configuration information about distributed applications.