3. Agenda
• The Paradox of Enterprise Search
• The Paradox of Information Architecture
• Requirements Gathering
• Search Team
• Hybrid
• The Future of Enterprise Search
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9. I want “Google-like” Search in my
Enterprise
• How many dedicated resources do you
have?
• Google has 3000+ employees working on
ranking only…
• Do you really want to get millions of
results?
• Or just the relevant ones?
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10. I want “Google-like” Search in my
Enterprise
• Do your users care of Enterprise SEO?
• Or they just want to get their jobs done?
• Can you motivate them more/differently?
• (Do they know what it is at all?...)
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11. I want “Google-like” Search in my
Enterprise
• How about security?
• Enterprise Search has to provide security
trimmed results.
• How about User Experience?
• You really cannot imagine anything better
than Google?!...
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13. Search as an Application
• Main goal: to help decision making
• Search is no longer the white box + “10 blue lines”
• Content lives in disparate locations
• Structured and unstructured content lives in different
locations
• Need to aggregate content according to
– Process
– Context
– Customer
– Goal
– Program
– Combination of any of these
15. The Paradox of Content
• Less Content – Less Value
• More Content – More Garbage
16. Information Overload
The average person receives
63,000 words of new
information every day.
Average length of a
novel: 64.531 words
If you wanted to read
everything you’ve got in 2013,
it would take you the first
three months of 2014!
17. What we give to the search engine… What the search engine sees…
Title Author Created Date Modified Date File Type …
Overview of SharePoint 2013 Preview Installation and Configuration Alex Yarrow 06/21/2012 10/16/2012 docx …
The Complexity of Enterprise
Information
20. Planning Search
• Enterprise Search
– Much more than IT Project
– Business Process
– Search is NOT “One Size Fits for All”
• Plan & Budget
– Implementation
– Maintenance
– Governance
– Analyze & Improve
– “Gardening”
21. Requirements
Business goals
Scenarios & use
cases
Application
Lifecycle
Systems to
integrate
User Experience Metrics
Milestones Resources
Experts
• Internal
• External
• “Liaison”
22. Be Agile…
• Start Small
• Department
• Project
• Use Case
• Grow Incremental
• “Showcase”
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25. Typical Search Team
Team Members
Internal External Liaison
Business Sponsors
Stakeholders
Project Management
IT
Search Admins
Developers
…
Consultants
Service Providers
Product Vendors
Developers
Act as Internal
Have Wide Search Experience
and Knowledge
Understands the Business
Well Organized
Liaise between
Internal+External
Quality Management
“Active Insurance”
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31. Conclusions
• Plan – But be Agile
• Search is a Business-Driven Process
(NOT a one-time IT Project only!)
• Gardening
• Content – Users – Context
• Take an Eye on the Future
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32. Stay in Touch
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• Stay in Touch:
E-mail: Aghy@SearchExplained.com
Web: http://SearchExplained.com
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Twitter: @MolnarAgnes, @SearchExplained
Editor's Notes
No longer within the firewall
Relevance is critical
Search within the organization
„Transparent” Search
Search Driven Applications
Display Templates
Query Builder
Result Sources
Query Rules
Mitchell Kapor: the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, the first chair of the Mozilla Foundation.
Robby Walker
Average novel: 64.500 words
Amazon Text Stats
Distracting, unmanageable
Business Intelligence
Social Intelligence
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Graphs