1 Andrew Maisey Product Development Manager The Business Benefits of Federated Searching Search Solutions 2007 23 May 2007.

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Andrew MaiseyProduct Development Manager

The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

Search Solutions 200723 May 2007

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The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

1. The business benefits of federated searching

2. The business benefits of federated searching

3. The business benefits of federated searching

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The Benefits of Search

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The Benefits of Search

“Understanding the hidden 80%”

http://www.autonomy.com

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The Benefits of Search

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The Benefits of Search

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• 4,000,000,000 pages

• 15,000 servers2006 … estimated

• 20,000,000,000+ pages

• ? servers

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The Benefits of Search

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The Options for Search

Niche players; Hummingbird, Intelliseek, ISYS, Mercado Software, Mondosoft, Thunderstone, ZyLAB…

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The Options for Search

• Search syntaxBoolean, proximity, phrase, wildcards,

masking, ranges, NL…

• Content analysisSummaries, categorisation, concepts

• Advanced UIBrowsing, drill down, taxonomies

Proprietary index

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The Options for Search

• Trained peopleSupport, maintain, optimise, 24*7*365

• Dedicated hardwareInfrastructure, systems administration

• NetworkBandwidth, access

Proprietary index

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The Options for Search

Proprietary index features!

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Acquiring Content

• Latency

• Integrations

• Subscription sites

• Timing

• Backups

Crawling and indexing

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The Business Benefit?

Federated search

“The goal of federated searching is to enable a user to search multiple independent, discretely mounted, data sources or

databases through one search query.”

http://en.wikipedia.org

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Federated Search

• Broadcast - anywhere

• Mimicking user behaviour

• Unified results

Reduced cost of ownership, deployment and maintenance

What it does…

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Federated Search

Does this without requiring

• Large licence costs

• Dedicated teams

• Dedicated hardware

• Changing existing working practices

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• Quick win access

• Maximises ROI and reuse

• Single sign on

• Content consolidation

• Frees internal resources

Business benefits

The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

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The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

• Instant one stop search

• Save time searching

• Increase search depth

• Uncover hidden content

Quick wins

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The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

• One tool – many sources

• Connect to anything

• Improve content reuse

• Maximise existing ROI

Maximise ROI and reuse

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The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

• Final or interim solution

• Save money, save time

• Easy to deploy

• No changes to working practices

Content consolidation

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The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

• Source level authentication

• No changes

• No costs

• Controlled access to subscription sites

• Auditing and charging

Single Sign On

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• Reduced application development / support

• READ-only – done

• One corporate interface

• Reduced external costs

Frees internal resources

The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

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• Licence

• Hardware

• System administration

• Implementation

• Training

Lower costs – same benefits

The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

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• Access more…now

• Migrate when practical

• Free up development teams

• Single interface

• Spend less

• Access without latency

• No proprietary index pitfalls

• Avoid network issues

The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

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Andrew MaiseyProduct Development Manager

The Business Benefits of Federated Searching

Search Solutions 200723 May 2007