Slide Deck from our latest webcast: "Migrating to SP2010 for Public Sites: An Insider’s Look at the Milestones" Rebecca Headrick and Cathy Hodson from AANA join Senior Search Consultant, Josh Noble, to discuss the requirement gathering, platform selection, and project milestones involved in AANA’s public migration from Ektron CMS 400.NET to SharePoint 2010 with Ontolica Search & Preview.

1. Migrating to SP2010 for Public Sites:
An Insider’s Look at the Milestones

2. Agenda
• The Problem
• Selecting Microsoft SharePoint
• General SharePoint Deployment Milestones
• Search Evaluation & Design
• Search Project Milestones

3. The Problem
• Website wasn’t included in the original
Membership and Financial system overhauls.
• New systems could work with Ektron 400.NET
but interfaces would be noticeably outdated.
• Configuration challenges, unnecessary strain
on IT, and generally irrelevant search results.
• Rigid folder structures resulted in slow
information retrieval.

4. Selecting Microsoft SharePoint
• Integration with Membership and Financial systems.
• One system for internal content management system
and public website.
• Flexible visual and functional design.
• Site columns and views to alleviate strain during
content reorganization.
• Support for future data structure and optimization
improvements.
• Stronger out of the box search but with limitations.

5. General Project Steps
• Content Cleanup and Audit
• Finalizing Taxonomy and Navigation for new
site
• Design and build new website
• Author training
• High-priority content migration
• Launch: December 4, 2011

6. Search Evaluation
Provide intuitive public SharePoint search
navigation and visualization while simplifying
the backend administration.
• Simple configuration by non-technical • Web page and document previews on
content editors all content
• Custom relevancy and sorting • Complete access with tablets and
• Visual, audience targeted, and timed smartphones
best bets • Decreased reliance on IT for organic
• Custom advanced search lookups relevancy improvements and UX
• Automated query suggestions and customizations
related queries

7. Ektron 400.NET Search UI

8. The Search User Experience
Enter Query
Take Action Refine Search
Results
Identify Targeted
Content

9. Search Center Overview

10. inDocument Search

11. Full Page Preview

12. Simplified Configuration

13. Search Project Steps
• Requirement Gathering (initial & future)
• Taxonomy & Metadata Design
• Guided Installation
• Search Center UI Design & Training
• Search Center UI Finalization
• Staging and Production Deployment
• Content Maturity & Continuous Review

14. Search Enhancement Outcomes
• Website query and navigation time drastically decreased.
• Simple and intuitive search page customizations with
decreased demand on IT service resources.
• Robust authentication and browser support with low
overhead allows users to quickly view content without local
programs.
• In-document search enables users to preview content with
search query highlights and relevant page suggestions.
• Improved accuracy of results and navigation options.

15. Ontolica Suite for
SharePoint & FAST
Enterprise Search Library Preview
• Create • Preview
• Search FAST Management • Identify
• Action • Analyze
• Configure
• Customize
Search Preview • Manage Aggregate
• Preview • Collect
• Identify • Refine
• Compare • Interact

16. Q/A & Contact Details
Josh Noble Don Wood
Director of Sales, Americas & Oceania
SharePoint Web Developer, AANA
Author: Pro SharePoint 2010 Search
jno@surfray.com dwood@aana.com
Cathryn Hodson Rebecca Headrick
Web Editor, AANA Application Development Manager, AANA
chodson@aana.com rheadrick@aana.com