The amount and diversity of information is growing exponentially, mainly in the area of unstructured data,
like emails, text files, blogs, images etc. Poor data accessibility, user rights integration and the lack of
semantic meta data are constraining factors for building next generation enterprise search and other document
centric applications. Missing standards result in proprietary solutions with huge short and long term cost.

SMILA is an extensible framework for building search solutions to access unstructured information in
the enterprise. Besides providing essential infrastructure components and services, SMILA also delivers
ready-to-use add-on components, like connectors to most relevant data sources. Using the framework as their
basis will enable developers to concentrate on the