Google plans to sunset the Google Search Appliance (GSA) at the end of 2018, leaving organizations that depend on the GSA for enterprise search and for search functionality on their public-facing websites to find a new solution. Combined with the increasing demand for cloud-based deployment models, this presents a unique challenge for those looking to replace GSA with like-for-like search functionality deployed in the cloud. If you’re unsure about the future, our informative discussion covered life after GSA, including: -Strategies for transitioning search solutions -Best practices for search platform replacement - Key components necessary for a successful cloud, hybrid, or on-premises solution -Demonstration of Perficient's cloud-ready, search solution built combining Elasticsearch and the GSA framework

1. What’s Next After the
Google Search Appliance?
February 2018

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About Perficient
Perficient is the leading digital
transformation consulting firm serving
Global 2000 and enterprise customers
throughout North America.
With unparalleled information technology, management
consulting, and creative capabilities, Perficient and its
Perficient Digital agency deliver vision, execution, and
value with outstanding digital experience, business
optimization, and industry solutions.

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Perficient Profile
• Founded in 1997
• Public, NASDAQ: PRFT
• 2017 revenue ~$500 million
• Major market locations:
Allentown, Atlanta, Ann Arbor, Boston, Charlotte,
Chattanooga, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas,
Denver, Detroit, Fairfax, Houston, Indianapolis, Lafayette,
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York City, Northern California,
Oxford (UK), Southern California, St. Louis, Toronto
• Global delivery centers in China and India
• Nearly 3,000 colleagues
• ~95% repeat business rate
• Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors
• Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth
awards

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Speaker Introduction
ERIC IMMERMANN
Director, Search
Perficient

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Agenda
What’s Going on with the GSA?
Considerations for Replacing the GSA
Options for Replacing GSA
Overview and Demonstration of Perficient Nero
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What’s going on with GSS
and the GSA?

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What’s Going on with GSS and the GSA?
• Customers can only extend support through 12/31/18
• After support is done, customers get a 30-day grace
period, then GSA devices turn off like lightbulbs.
Google Search Appliance
• Customers can only extend support through 3/31/18
• After support is done, GSS falls back to Google
Custom Search
• Google Custom Search is effectively public Google
search embedded into a website
• Clients have no control over what results are shown
Google Site Search
It’s generally not possible to extend support of these platforms

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Considerations for
Replacing the GSA

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Considerations for Replacing the GSA
• What role does search play in your
organization?
• Should the use of search be expanded or
is this a ‘rip and replace’?
• Can new technologies such as contextual
search, natural language search, or machine
learning provide value?
Strategic Direction Timeline
• Can you realistically migrate to your desired
scenario by the end of 2018?
• Should you consider an interim search
solution?
• Do you have resources and implementation
partners lined up to make it happen?

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Considerations for Replacing the GSA
Budget
Environment &
Implementation
• What are your budgets for licensing and
implementation of your replacement solutions?
• Do your budgets match with your plans?
• Are you looking for cloud or on-premises
search?
• What is your comfort level with building out your
own solution?
• What is your comfort level for supporting and
tuning your search solution long term?

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Options for
Replacing the GSA

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Search Engines
Build-it-Yourself Search
Free, Open Source search engines that provide first-class search and indexing
functionality, but no standard index structures, connectors, or user interfaces
Capable of being excellent search solutions, but require large implementation efforts.

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Environment Ideal Use Case
Straight forward, quick-to-implement, public website search-as-a-service
Integrating traditional secure and anonymous search into websites and portals
Organizations with existing Solr investments
Integrating natural language and cognitive search into websites, portals, and bots
Advanced content analytics
Integrating machine learning- and usage analytics-enhanced search into websites,
portals and bots
GA July
2018
Integrating machine learning-enhanced search and information into internal portals
and secured environments
Search Platforms

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Perficient Nero
A low cost, quick-to-implement solution
to rip-and-replace the GSA

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What is Nero?
Crawls and indexes
websites and file
systems out of the box.
Installation is easy and
typical customers are
up and running in 30
days or less.
Quick Setup Relevant Results Modern Display API Access
Tunes results for
relevance based on
usage and provides
intuitive configuration
tools for easy biasing,
synonyms, and custom
stemming.
Includes everything
users have come to
expect when it comes
to search, resulting in
a seamless user
experience with robust
performance.
Enables a quick
transition off GSA with
direct API access
available through
JSON, GSA-compliant
XML results, and
Elasticsearch REST.
Fast, Simple, Website Search

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Why Nero?
Easy-to-Use, Scalable, Cost-effective, Powerful Search
Crawls a very wide
variety of sources to
ingest data from
everywhere.
Built-in APIs enable
easy customization
and expansion.
Flexible Open Source Scalable Enterprise Grade
Leverages open
source technology
including the popular
Elasticsearch engine in
order to deliver
advanced features at a
competitive price point.
Built with scalability in
mind, Nero allows a
virtually unlimited
number of indexed
documents and
content sources
without compromising
on performance.
Cloud-ready and
compatible with
leading cloud platforms
like Google Cloud,
AWS, and Azure.
Can be deployed
on premises or in a
hybrid-cloud model.

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Nero Open Source Roots
Brings Together the Best and Latest in Open Source and Proprietary Tech

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Demonstration

19. Questions
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