Our Enterprise Search Connectors
File Shares and Network Shares
Our File Share Connector allows for indexing all files from a network or local share and its metadata, as well as Access Control List information. In turn, you can build great enterprise search experiences, knowledge searches or bot applications powered by retrieval augmented generation.
Features
Our File Share connector comes with the following features.
- Indexing of files and folders from a network share or a local server
- Indexes the access control lists of the crawled files
- Full set of the file metadata as part of the indexed documents
- Efficient crawling through non-indexing content scans
- Filtering based on file types and folder names
- Easy configuration
- Microsoft Copilot
(File Share-Connector for Microsoft Copilot) - Microsoft Search
(File Share-Connector for Microsoft Search) - Microsoft Graph Connectors
(File Share-Connector for Microsoft Graph) - Azure AI Search
(File Share-Connector for Azure AI Search) - Squirro Insight Engine
(File Share-Connector for Squirro Insight Engine) - Elasticsearch
(File Share-Connector for Elasticsearch) - OpenSearch
(File Share-Connector for OpenSearch) - Apache Solr
(File Share-Connector for Apache Solr) - Microsoft SQL
(File Share-Connector for Microsoft SQL) - Postgres
(File Share-Connector for Postgres) - Oracle
(File Share-Connector for Oracle) - Weaviate
(File Share-Connector for Weaviate)
Why the RheinInsights Retrieval Suite?
There are many reasons to use our Retrieval Suite. However, it stands out because of our top priorities on data security, efficiency, and low effort to success.
Our suite scales easily to up to 100 million indexed documents, handles the APIs of source systems with high efficiency, enables flexible AI integrations for Retrieval Augmented Generation, and is deployed and used incredibly quickly – in hours, not months.
All with the aim that you can concentrate on what matters most - realizing your use cases and creating added value.
Data Security and Access Rights
- Deployments on-premises or in your own cloud
- Compatible with, but independent of, hyperscalers
- No data exposure to third parties
- No external access to your systems and data, not even by RheinInsights
- Secure search: users only find the content they have access to in the source system
Scalability
- Scalable indexing of up to 100 million documents and more
- Near real-time indexing of changes
- Robust crawl strategies to index documents and security principals
- Minimal load on source systems: no expensive and minimizing API calls
- Load balancing across multiple Retrieval Suite instances if needed
- Highly flexible crawl scheduling
Integrations
- Integrations via MCP, bot frameworks, Slack, Teams, Copilot, Open WebUI, and websites
- Highly relevant answers - for your AI and users
- Flexible query pipelines for decision making and retrieval use cases
- Processing pipelines for documents and security principals
Deployment and Setup
- Successful AI and RAG projects in hours - not months
- Easy and quick deployment
- UI configuration
- An administration interface to manage all connectors
- Wizards that simplify complex configurations
- Early validation of configurations with fast and understandable feedback
- No configuration overhead: A consistent and well-designed metadata schema with uniform metadata fields
Developing Your Own AI applications
- State View shows documents, document metadata, and user group relationships
- Insights on document processing
- Full flexibility through our query pipelines
- Visualization of individual query executions and results
- Analytics
Interested in a trial?
Register for free in our customer portal, create a free demo license and download our RheinInsights Retrieval Suite.