2. SharePoint and FAST Search Introduction The Products Grand Tour Tech Details What Really counts Mapping Business Requirements to Technology Data Capacities Price Search Resources
3. New Idea Engineering Inc. Company Background Founded in 1996 Headquarters: Santa Clara, California Customers in Europe and North America Vendor neutral approach to search Focus is on what is best for our clients Products and Consulting Services: Evaluation/Selection/Implementing Enterprise Search Search Best Practices SearchTrack Reporting & Analytics Search Data Quality Toolkit Enterprise Search Newsletter 3
4. The Book Published Fall 2010 Covers Search: Business SharePoint FS4SP ESP 5.3 Trends
6. Naming Conventions Business Productivity (server/(e)CAL licensing) Internet Business (Server licensing) FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise High End SharePoint Server 2010 SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Standard Integrated with SharePoint Infrastructure SharePoint Foundation 2010 Entry Level FAST Search Server 2010 for Internal Applications FAST Search Server 2010for Internet Sites High End Microsoft Search Server 2010 Stand-Alone Infrastructure Microsoft Search Server 2010, Express Entry Level
7. The ‘SharePoint’ Codebase Business Productivity (server/(e)CAL licensing) Internet Business (Server licensing) FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise High End SharePoint Server 2010 SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Standard Integrated with SharePoint Infrastructure SharePoint Foundation 2010 Entry Level FAST Search Server 2010 for Internal Applications FAST Search Server 2010for Internet Sites High End Microsoft Search Server 2010 Stand-Alone Infrastructure Microsoft Search Server 2010, Express Entry Level
9. Solutions for Internet Business Solutions for Business Productivity The Marketing Fantasy FAST Search for SharePoint Internet Sites FAST Search for SharePoint Integrated with SharePoint SharePoint Server for Internet Sites SharePoint Server FAST Search For Internet Sites FAST Search for Internal Applications Stand-alone Search Server Search Server Express Entry-Level Solutions SharePoint Foundation
10.
11. Four stand-alone (MSS-X, MSS, FSIA, FSIS), five integrated with SharePoint) SPF, SP, SP-FIS, FS4SP, FS4SP-IS)
12. Three intended/licensed for internally facing applications (SP, FSIA, FS4SP), three intended/licensed for externally facing applications (SP-FIS, FS4SP-IS, FSIS)
27. Powerful FS4SP Features IT Content Processing pipeline Entity extraction Tunable relevance ranking Developers Add custom property extractors Extend content processing Include external data in relevance Build multiple relevance profiles USER Deep refiners with counts Context based user profile Multiple relevance profiles Sorting on any property Similarity Search Broader, better language support Richer query language
28. Indexing Pipeline … FS4SP Stages coded in .Net Configure via UI or PowerShell Custom stages before ‘Mapper’ Runs in sandbox w/ timeout Mapper FS4SP Index Language Detection Format Conversion EntityExtraction Lemmatization FS4SP Stages coded in Python (any CLI language OK) Configure via XML config file Custom stages allowed anywhere Runs in-line
43. The Role of the Pipeline The Content Pipeline Processing & refinement Date Lookaside Location Company REDMOND, Wash., andOSLO, Norway — Jan. 8, 2008 Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA (OSE: “FAST”), a leading provider of enterprise search solutions, through a cash tender offer for 19.00 Norwegian kroner (NOK) per share. This offer represents a 42 percent premium to the closing share price on Jan. 4, 2008 (the last trading day prior to this announcement), … Mapper … Configurable Stages EntityExtraction Language Detection Format Conversion
91. Great search doesn’t just happen.. Do search owners understand? Staffing Expectations Is there a search manager? An SCOE? How many people will be involved day to day? How to manage search? Review activity logs Update and manage best bets, new content Evangelize User Skills Are users knowledge workers or casual searchers? Is search business critical?
92. So what is the right answer? It depends Internal or external facing search? SharePoint or stand-alone? Casual users or Knowledge workers? Resources for managing search? Search box or search derived application? What’s the risk of missing content? That’s why your customer needs you!
Opportunity to fix up bad/missing metadataFS4SP: Custom stage just before mapper; C# default.. Safe, has timeout..ESP: any CLI code – sdtin/stdout; even Bat file (newsletter example)Why a pipeline: Mark up documents w/ look-aside data (stock quotes); extend with sentiment analysis, auto-classification, etc. Very powerful capability for fixing content problems
