beyond 10 blue links Making people more productive and driving business outcomes People & Expertise My Work Business Data Information Services.

Session Code

SharePoint 2010:Enterprise Search Overview

Michal GideoniGroup Product Manager, SharePoint Microsoft Corp.

Searchbeyond 10 blue links

Going beyond ten blue links

Our approach to Search in the EnterpriseProduct Lineup - “Why FAST?”Business Value of SearchProductivity Search UXTaking Search to the next levelSearch Infrastructure

Your business asks“How can we use information to support specific tasks and

impact our bottom line?”

Your people ask“How can I find

whatever I need, wherever it isquickly and easily?”

Search connects people with informationMaking people more productive and driving business outcomes

People & Expertise

My Work

Business Data

Information Services

Enterprise Content

Productivity Search Experience Search-Driven Applications

Connect all of your people with a broad set of information

• Enterprise content and data• Intranet sites• Team workspaces• People and expertise

Drive measurable ROI by helping a business group make the most of

a specific set of information

• 360o customer insight• Competitive intelligence• Research portals

Search solutions can be broad and deep

Many businesses invest in multiple solutions, with unsatisfactory results

SoftwareCosts

People Costs

Opportunity Costs

Need to be less complex & costly

to use company-wide

Need to be more interactive & personalto satisfy expectations

The Enterprise Search challenge

Productivity Search Experiences

Search-DrivenApplications

Productivity Search Experience

Search-Driven Applications

A Single, Cost-effectiveInfrastructure

SharePoint Enterprise SearchA new choice that eliminates compromise

Product Portfolio

Enterprise Version

StandardVersion

Free Version

Get better answers, fasterUsing a visual, interactive search experience

Explore using navigatorsthat help you understand the scope of information available, with exact counts of results

Improve relevance with usebased on how people tag and rate content in SharePoint and on click-throughs of search results

Visualize your resultsso you can quickly recognize what you’re looking for without opening separate applications

Query completio

n

Document thumbnail

s

Scrolling previews

Read in Office Web

Apps

Relatedsearches & people

Federated results

Sorting on any

property

Deep Refiners

Explore results tailored for youWith context-specific search that can consider your business and role

”What should I know about selling ERP?”- Allan Brewer, Sales

Lead

”What should I know about implementing

ERP?”- Renee Lo, Consultant

Role-specific relevance

Business-specific

navigation

Targeted

featured results

Connect with people and expertiseAnd streamline how you find and collaborate with others

Find peoplewith address book search that matches names phonetically & lets you browse organizations

Use MySite profile pagesthat recognize and track your colleagues and make it easier to share your work with others

Discover expertisebased on terms matched from mined Outlook inbox data and SharePoint MySite profiles

Filter by title,

expertise & other

attributes

Real-time presence

Phonetic name lookup

Expertise matching

Org browsing

demo

FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

Out-of-box search experience

Product Differentiation

• Powerful content processing with deep navigation

• Visual search experience with document previews

• Tailored relevance and visual best bets

• Best-in-class platform• Advanced linguistics• Extreme scale and

performance

• Search-as-you-type and metadata-driven navigation

• People and expertise search with MySite profiles

• OpenSearch federation• Business Connectivity

Services• Centralized administration

and System Center integration

How to take Search to the next level…

Search-drivenApplications

Structuring the

Unstructured

Enhancing Relevance

Making SearchVisual

Powerful Entity ExtractionEnables search-driven navigation that is relevant to your business

Add needed metadatawith pre-built extractors that automatically tag people, locations, and company names

Extend easilyto recognize business-specific terms and concepts—tailoring search for your information

Surface in navigationrecognized properties, making search results more relevant and discoverable

CONCEPT

PRODUCT

COMPANY

People

Locations

Companies

Extensible Content ProcessingEnables search that has a deep understanding of your information

Transform contentusing a processing pipeline that normalizes and cleanses all of your information

Use globallywith linguistics processing for 45 languages and recognition of content in 80+ languages

Add or extend stagesthat apply sentiment analysis, translation, or other business-specific processing you need

…

Format Converter

LanguageDetector

Lemmatizer

Word Breaker

Entity Extractor

Date/TimeNormalizer

Vectorizer

Web Analyzer

Properties Mapper

Tunable RelevanceEnables unique, business-specific search results for diverse roles

Tailor search resultsby tuning relevance ranking based on content freshness, source and 7 other attributes

Make search your ownby configuring relevance to recognize synonyms, acronyms, and other business terms

Highlight featured content using configurable best bets that visually highlight editorialized search results for targeted users

Customizable Search ExperienceEnables building applications that increase user efficiency

Add visual navigationthat makes it easier for people to understand and gain insight from search results

Use familiar toolslike SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio that integrate with SharePoint and FAST Search

Build new kinds of appsthat allow people to work with disparate information utilizing common APIs for search

Simplified, powerful administrationA high-end enterprise search solution that’s easy to deploy and manage

Deploy easilyusing wizard-driven installation, a topology designer, and native support for 64-bit virtualization

Manage efficiently with full support for Microsoft System Center and PowerShell scripting to automate tasks

Streamline administrationwith a simplified admin console that helps you manage search services across your enterprise

Secure, unified access to informationIndex or federate with content, applications, and services

Access content securelywith a full-featured content crawler and both index- and query-time trimming of results

Federate queriesusing OpenSearch to quickly access existing search indexes and online information services

Extend your reachusing Business Connectivity Services to access your content sources and business applications

OpenSearch Federation

Indexing Connectors

EnterpriseContent

Business Applications

Information Services

User Experience

Search Index

Websites and Intranet

File Shares

IBM Lotus Notes

EMC Documentum

SharePoint Server

Exchange Public Folders

AD & LDAP Profiles

Etc …

FacebookBing

flickrLinkedIn

Wikipedia

Dow Jones Factiva

The New York Times

Scale and resiliencyPerformance and reliability at every level of your search infrastructure

Scalability & balancingthat can be architected for extreme content and query volumes, with load balancing

Performancewith sub-second query response times and fresh indexes with over 100M items

Full fault tolerancewith partitioning and mirroring of index, query servers, and content crawlers

InformationUser Experience

Search IndexQuery Servers

ContentCrawlers

Three Scale PointsQuery volume, index freshness &

content volume

Grow as you need more, at low riskCommon attributes make it easier for your investment to move forward

One search platformwith a single UI framework, common APIs and developer experiences across products

Common connectorswith a consistent framework for capturing and indexing your information

Unified administrationwhich allows you to manage FAST Search and SharePoint in a centralized admin console

User Experience

SharePointSearch

FAST Search for SharePoint

Information

Productivity Search Experience

Search-Driven Applications

A Single, Cost-effectiveInfrastructure

SharePoint Enterprise Search