The white paper addresses the challenges observed in the industry when dealing with large data volumes, and suggests solutions to the challenges that may be faced by the integrated unified data architecture based on the combined offering.

While the traditional approach of searching directly in the database works well for small repositories, it has performance limitations with growing repository size. Storing repository information in an index would make searching for keywords or phrases in content very fast. In order to provide this functionality, a separate entimICE server component - the indexing server - was created.