IBM is building software it hopes will make it the Google of corporate-search technology.
Big Blue has been quietly working on data storage software designed to greatly improve the ability of companies to find business documents scattered across their networks, Janet Perna, the general manager of IBM"s information management group, told CNET News.com. The new software, along with other information-retrieval products IBM already has, underscores the company"s shift out of low-cost hardware, notably PCs, and into higher-margin software and services.