With data scattered across so many pieces of software, Jain found his own productivity blunted by the time spent locating the right document or answer to a question. Two and a half years ago, Jain stepped away from Rubrik to focus on that challenge—developing an enterprise search engine in secret. While some search software companies such as Elastic and Algolia have found success, their products primarily focus on customers’ search boxes on consumer-facing websites, rather than working for employees. (Elastic, however, recently shipped a workplace search product that promises to unify content across apps.) Practically every product and engineering employee at Seattle-based sales software startup Outreach uses Glean, says Amritansh Raghav, who oversees the 260-person unit.

Source: Forbes September 15, 2021 13:00 UTC