"We're tapping into information inside the business application. It's not just documents, but facts and trends," Girouard said.

Google's partnership announcements are at least as important as the OneBox feature, he said.

Customers using Cisco's Unified Communications System will be able to use the Google OneBox for Enterprise to find rich media conference information, including calendar events and missed call logs, said Joe Burton, director of engineering for Cisco's Unified Communications Business Unit.

The business intelligence software vendor Cognos will unveil Cognos Go!, a module for Cognos 8 and for IBM's OmniFind enterprise search. Go! has modules for displaying report data like graphs and charts, visual representations of metrics stored in Cognos and business intelligence reports, analysis and dashboards relevant to a search, the company said.

OneBox gives Cognos customers the ability to search unstructured business intelligence data, said Paul Hulford, senior product marketing manager at Cognos.