Protected: SharePoint Records Governance and System Recovery
July 22, 2011
Protected: Webtrends Analyzes SharePoint
July 21, 2011
Protected: SharePoint has a New Beau: Yammer
July 20, 2011
New Site from PolySpot
July 19, 2011
PolySpot Blog announces a new site in “PolySpot Information At Work sur le portail de l’Intelligence économique.” (“PolySpot Information At Work on the economic intelligence portal.”) If you don’t read French, you can run the article through Google Translate.
Or, you can just check out the site itself, PolySpot Information At Work. The intro page explains that it is based on four modules: one which extracts raw data; a platform structure and semantic enrichment module; an indexed search service; and an administration module. The main applications of the site are listed as:
- Research transverse company
- Business-oriented research
- Information management
- Intelligence and regulatory framework
- Aid for the production of editorial content
- Web site / Extranet
- Research services included in a third-party application
- Worth a look-see for those interested in business intelligence.
PolySpot has been providing software research and information access to businesses since 2001. The company prides itself on its innovative, modular approach to meeting their clients’ information needs.
Cynthia Murrell, July 19, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com, publishers of the New Landscape of Enterprise Search.
INTEGRITYOne Partners and SharePoint Team Up to Aid the FBI
July 16, 2011
I try to keep at least one tired eye on the competition within the US Federal government between Google and Microsoft. This PR Newswire lead caught our eye here at Beyond Search: “INTEGRITYOne Partners Win $40 Million FBI SharePoint Contract.”
INTEGRITYOne is a management and IT consulting firm that specialized in inspirational and creative ideas/solutions for high-performing clients. They announced a partnership with Applied Information Sciences (AIS) to win a five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide SharePoint services for the FBI. (IDIQ contracts are definitely good. Yep.)
INTEGRITYOne has provided SharePoint services for other law enforcement and national security organizations in the past, proving to have a strong track record. Their experience has made them familiar with the law enforcement mission and will be a boon to their new contract. We learned:
“The role the FBI plays in ensuring the safety of American citizens cannot be overstated,” said INTEGRITYOne Partners Managing Partner Michael Waddell. “We are honored to support their mission under this contract.”
After reading this brief, we asked ourselves will other law agencies dump Google and head to Microsoft SharePoint? SharePoint is easier to self-contain and secure. Google is just about anyone’s game. The FBI should may want to ask an appropriate vendor to check out SurfRay’s technology to make their SharePoint search all the more easier.
Torben Ellert, July 16, 2011
SurfRay
Protected: Updates for XSL in SharePoint
July 15, 2011
Protected: Fixing Your SharePoint Via Patching
July 14, 2011
Is Enterprise Search Embracing Data Management?
July 13, 2011
As the economic noose tightens around the next of some enterprise search vendors, some remarkable transformations are underway. Who thought that the motion picture Transformers would presage the remarkable shift of brute force search to customer support (an oxymoron?), eDiscovery, and business intelligence. I am indeed surprised.
If companies have become the equivalent of data hoarders, then firms like Brainware are the professional organizer called in get things under control. As reported in RedOrbit’s “Brainware Launches Cloud-Based Intelligent Data Capture,” the vendor has launched Brainware Distiller, a service for the automation of document-centric business processes. The write up asserted:
Hosted on Microsoft’s Azure platform, Brainware becomes the first intelligent data capture vendor to make the transition to software-as-a-service.
The online solution uses a patented template-free data extraction method. Think trigrams. Not sure what these are? Click and read this write up which makes a three letter sequence more exciting than I thought possible.
Brainware has done a good job of moving from search to eDiscovery, to enterprise search, to online public access catalog search, and to back office paper processing, optical character recognition, work flow and forms processing.
Agility, thy name is Brainware. Can other enterprise search vendors with or without trigrams match this acrobat of information retrieval?
Stephen E Arnold, July 13, 2011
Sponsored by Stephen E Arnold, author of The New Landscape of Enterprise Search
Protected: SharePoint Hooking Into Rich Media
July 13, 2011
Microsoft and Its Different Search Systems
July 12, 2011
We noted SharePoint Geek’s useful blog post “Comparing SharePoint 2010 Search: Foundation vs Server vs FAST.” The table presents in a very succinct manner the three main search solutions available from Microsoft. In fact, this table is something we suggest you tuck into your SharePoint Reference folder, which was put together by the editor at LearningSharePoint.com.
Let’s take a quick look at the three search systems available from Microsoft. Search Technologies has significant experience with each of these within our Microsoft Search Practice, and we find them useful within the design and configuration constraints which Microsoft’s engineers have defined for each system.
SharePoint Foundation 2010 is what we call “basic key word search.” The product is included with SharePoint 2010. It does a solid job of indexing content within a properly configured SharePoint installation. If you are a small business with two or three people who need access to shared content, SharePoint Foundation is going to be a logical choice.
The upgrade is the search function in SharePoint Server 2010. In a nutshell, the basic key word search and intranet indexing is similar to that in Foundation. Additional features provided with this Microsoft search system include:
- An entity search which is optimized for people
- A query federation function which allows content from different intranet sources to be combined in one results list.
- Graphical administrative interface.
A basic “suggested search” or “see also” function is available as well. This search system may meet the needs of most small businesses. If you need to access external content, you will want to upgrade to the Fast Search system.
The features of the Fast solution include:
- Basic search
- A document preview function so the application does not have to launched to view the content
- Intranet indexing
- Indexing of Web and third party content not within the licensee’s SharePoint repository
- Concatenated results lists; that is, information from multiple collections and sources
- A graphical administrative tool
- Faceted search.
Our view is that if you implement the SharePoint Server 2010 or Fast Search Server 2010, you may want to enlist the support of a company like Search Technologies. There are three reasons:
First, engineers working on SharePoint without deep experience in search will benefit from the expertise obtained through dozens and dozens of SharePoint Search and Fast Search deployments.
Second, the optimization techniques that a firm such as Search Technologies possesses often allow a SharePoint licensee to maximize performance without the need to scale up and out.
Third, the customization functions are rich; however, some of the methods for fine tuning certain features often require custom scripting or the use of methods not required for SQL Server or Exchange. Therefore, a third party can reduce the time, cost, and frustration of adding the final touches to a SharePoint “findability” solution.
Please, navigate to www.searchtechnologies.com to learn more about our expertise in deploying Microsoft’s search solutions.
Iain Fletcher, July 12, 2011
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