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BOC Gases Receives Google Enterprise Search Superstar Award

Posted on: Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 15:00 CST

BOC Gases has received the Google Enterprise Search Superstar Award for its innovative use of Google's Search Appliance, enabling employees to quickly locate business information and employee expertise.

BOC is a member of The Linde Group, a world-leading industrial gases and engineering company.

Thousands of customers use Google's integrated hardware and software search appliances to make their searches for business information as easy as searching on Google.com. The Google Enterprise Search Superstar Award highlights people and companies using Google enterprise search products in innovative ways to improve the search experience and obtain better business results.

BOC received the award for its 2006 implementation of the Google Search Appliance and OneBox for Enterprise, which allow knowledge and information to be shared easily across the entire company.

"So much of a company's knowledge exists in people's heads. To help unlock this valuable knowledge, we developed -- as part of our identity management strategy -- a system that allows employees to enter information about their work experience, skill sets and other areas of expertise, such as professional certifications and language skills," said Danny Perri, business process consultant, BOC.

"When we implemented the Google Search Appliance to make our document-based knowledge more accessible, we used Google's OneBox integration tool to build a richer search experience that return links to relevant people as well as links to relevant documents, right there on the same results page. Sometimes finding the expert is far more useful than simply finding a document. We see it as a simple, cost-effective way to make work a little easier, and to make our company a lot more successful," Perri said.

A profile of BOC's innovative use of search, along with photos and a podcast interview, can be found at: http://www.google.com/enterprise/superstars/linde.html

Matthew Glotzbach, head of products for Google Enterprise, said, "Google customers continue to demonstrate in new and innovative ways how search can improve a business. Google is happy to honor BOC as a Google Enterprise Search Superstar, and a terrific example of excellence in search."

All Google Search Appliance and Google Mini customers can submit their own success stories that will be considered for the Google Enterprise Search Superstar Award program. For more information on the awards, please visit www.google.com/enterprise/searchsuperstars/index.html

The Linde Group is a world leading industrial gases and engineering company with more than 53,000 employees working in around 70 countries worldwide. Following the acquisition of The BOC Group the company has gases and engineering sales of approximately $15 billion. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services.

For more information, please see The Linde Group online at http://www.linde.com

Source: Business Wire

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