Illustration of the RheinInsights Enterprise Search Connectors

Our Enterprise Search Connectors
Microsoft Teams

Our Microsoft Teams Connector allows for indexing all message from chats, teams and channels and their metadata. It also indexes Entra ID security principals for secure search. In turn, you can build great enterprise search experiences, knowledge searches or bot applications powered by retrieval augmented generation. In combination with the SharePoint Online connector as part of the RheinInsights Retrieval Suite, you can therefore index all documents from Teams.

Features

Our Teams connector comes with the following features.

  • Indexing of all messages from chats, teams and challes from your Teams tenant
  • Multi-Geo support
  • Full set of Teams metadata as part of the indexed documents
  • Full support for Teams's permission scheme
  • Efficient incremental crawling based on change logs
  • Application authentication for the Graph APIs
  • Based on Microsoft's Graph APIs
  • Filters based on teams and participants
  • Easy configuration

Supported Search Engines

Our Teams connector supports the following search engines.

  • Microsoft Copilot
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for Microsoft Copilot)
  • Microsoft Search
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for Microsoft Search)
  • Microsoft Graph Connectors
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for Microsoft Graph)
  • Azure AI Search
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for Azure AI Search)
  • Squirro Insight Engine
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for Squirro Insight Engine)
  • Elasticsearch
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for Elasticsearch)
  • OpenSearch
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for OpenSearch)
  • Apache Solr
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for Apache Solr)
  • Microsoft SQL
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for Microsoft SQL)
  • Postgres
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for Postgres)
  • Oracle
    (Microsoft Teams-Connector for Oracle)
  • Weaviate
    (Microsoft Teams-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

Screenshot of the first run dialog

Interested in a trial?

Register for free in our customer portal, create a free demo license and download our RheinInsights Retrieval Suite.

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