Andrew Maisey Product Development Manager

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

2. The Business Benefits of Federated Searching • The business benefits of federatedsearching • The business benefits offederated searching • The business benefits of federated searching

3. The Benefits of Search

4. The Benefits of Search “Understanding the hidden 80%” http://www.autonomy.com

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6. The Benefits of Search 2003 • 4,000,000,000 pages • 15,000 servers 2006 … estimated • 20,000,000,000+ pages • ? servers

7. The Benefits of Search

8. The Options for Search Niche players; Hummingbird, Intelliseek, ISYS, Mercado Software, Mondosoft, Thunderstone, ZyLAB…

9. The Options for Search • Search syntax Boolean, proximity, phrase, wildcards, masking, ranges, NL… • Content analysis Summaries, categorisation, concepts • Advanced UI Browsing, drill down, taxonomies Proprietary index

10. The Options for Search • Trained people Support, maintain, optimise, 24*7*365 • Dedicated hardware Infrastructure, systems administration • Network Bandwidth, access Proprietary index

11. The Options for Search Proprietary index features!

12. Acquiring Content • Latency • Integrations • Subscription sites • Timing • Backups Crawling and indexing

13. 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

14. Federated Search • Broadcast - anywhere • Mimicking user behaviour • Unified results What it does… Reduced cost of ownership, deployment and maintenance

15. Federated Search Does this without requiring • Large licence costs • Dedicated teams • Dedicated hardware • Changing existing working practices

16. The Business Benefits of Federated Searching Business benefits • Quick win access • Maximises ROI and reuse • Single sign on • Content consolidation • Frees internal resources

17. The Business Benefits of Federated Searching • Instant one stop search • Save time searching • Increase search depth • Uncover hidden content Quick wins

18. The Business Benefits of Federated Searching • One tool – many sources • Connect to anything • Improve content reuse • Maximise existing ROI Maximise ROI and reuse

19. The Business Benefits of Federated Searching • Final or interim solution • Save money, save time • Easy to deploy • No changes to working practices Content consolidation

20. The Business Benefits of Federated Searching • Source level authentication • No changes • No costs • Controlled access to subscription sites • Auditing and charging Single Sign On

21. The Business Benefits of Federated Searching Frees internal resources • Reduced application development / support • READ-only – done • One corporate interface • Reduced external costs

22. The Business Benefits of Federated Searching Lower costs – same benefits • Licence • Hardware • System administration • Implementation • Training

23. The Business Benefits of Federated Searching • Access more…now • Migrate when practical • Free up development teams • Single interface • Spend less • Access without latency • No proprietary index pitfalls • Avoid network issues

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