Enterprise Search Using SharePoint 2010 and FAST
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The document discusses enterprise search capabilities using SharePoint 2010 and FAST, highlighting Microsoft's strategic R&D investment in search technology. It covers new features and improvements in SharePoint 2010, such as enhanced filtering, social search, and architectural advancements designed to improve scalability and performance. Additionally, it includes advanced search scenarios that enable targeted results and contextual relevance for specific user needs.
Enterprise Search Using SharePoint 2010 and FAST
- 1. Enterprise Search Using SharePoint 2010 and FASTBert JohnsonSharePoint Architect and 2010 MCM, West Monroe Partners
- 2. 2Bert JohnsonSharePoint Architect with West Monroe PartnersMicrosoft Certified Master – SharePoint Server 2010Twitter: @SPBert Event Hashtag: #sps2011Email: bert@bertjohnson.net
- 3. 3AgendaThe Need for Enterprise SearchMicrosoft’s Enterprise Search CapabilitiesSearch in SharePoint 2010What’s New, What’s ImprovedDemoFAST Search 2010Advanced ScenariosDemoQ&A
- 4. 4The Need forEnterprise Search
- 5. 5Enterprise Challenges…More data in more placesFind data spread across multiple systemsScale to support large index and query volumesDifferent types of dataIncorporate different types of resultsFind employee expertiseA need to act quicklyEnable fast decisions through filteringAdapt based on user behaviorEnsure results are secure and manageableAutomatic security trimmingCentralized analyticsSearch Solutions
- 7. 7Microsoft’sSearchCapabilitiesSearch is one of Microsoft’s top priorities, permeating every product lineSharePoint, FAST, and Bing are the cornerstones of a ten year R&D roadmap focused on search innovation2010’s R&D budget for search is over $2.67 billionMicrosoft has recently made several large search acquisitions, including:
- 8. 8Microsoft’sSearchCapabilitiesFAST Search solves the toughest challenges…The #1 electronics retailer The source for all government publicationsThe #1 computer retailer The #1 fashion retailerThe #1 career site
- 9. 9Microsoft’sSearchCapabilitiesThanks to its new capabilities,Microsoft is now recognizedas the leader in Gartner’sInformation AccessTechnology quadrant.Forrester’s 2010 Reporton Search says:“SharePoint gives users theability to find the content,information, and people theyneed by combining anintegrated, easy-to-manageplatform with best-of-breedenterprise search technology.”
- 10. 10What’s New forSearch in SharePoint 2010
- 11. 11What’s New for Search in SharePoint 2010Taxonomy
- 12. Metadata can now be managedcentrally in a reusable term store
- 13. Enables hierarchy of structured terms
- 14. Ensures more consistent data labels
- 15. Can be reused across sites and farms
- 16. Folksonomy
- 17. Tagging allows users to find contentusing consistent, familiar terms
- 18. Ratings make finding quality easier12What’s New for Search in SharePoint 2010Filter-Based Navigation
- 19. Navigators
- 20. Allow easy filtering within results
- 21. Automatically generated basedon context
- 23. Filter results directly from withindocument libraries
- 24. Drill into content based on tagsor taxonomy13What’s New for Search in SharePoint 2010Social Search Enhancements
- 25. People Search
- 26. Incorporates people’s interests, expertise, and recent activity
- 27. Outlook Social Connector automatically discovers relationships
- 28. “Self Search”
- 29. Returns information about the current user
- 30. User Behavior
- 31. Click popularity influences the ranking of search results
- 32. Suggestions driven by past searches and taxonomy
- 34. Content ratings
- 35. Social tagging
- 37. Popularity of click-through14What’s New for Search in SharePoint 2010Supports phonetic name lookup and WildcardsOrganization browsingFilter by focus, expertise, etcRecentcontent
- 38. 15What’s New for Search in SharePoint 2010Linguistic Capabilities
- 39. Wildcard searches using a partial prefix
- 40. e.g. “Micro*” returns “Microchip”, “Microscope”, and “Microsoft”
- 41. Correct common misspellings and recommend alternatives
- 42. Phonetic search algorithm and nickname matching
- 43. Search using booleans (AND, OR, NOT)
- 44. Support for operators on property restrictions
- 46. Even more language packs supported16What’s Improved forSearch in SharePoint 2010
- 47. 17What’sImproved for Search in SP 2010Architectural Improvements
- 48. Crawling now distributed acrossmultiple load balanced servers
- 49. Index can be partitioned and distributed across servers
- 50. New service application model canisolate search from other services
- 51. Scale and performance improvements
- 52. Manageability through PowerShell18What’sImproved for Search in SP 2010Functional Improvements
- 53. Federation
- 54. Additional OpenSearch providers now available
- 55. Can now be searched directly from Windows 7 or Internet Explorer
- 56. Indexing
- 57. Now uses Business Connectivity Services
- 58. Connectors can be defined visually through SharePoint Designer
- 59. Connectors can be written in .NET
- 60. Usage Analytics
- 61. Built-in reports show term popularity and peak times used
- 62. Custom reports can be written using the Report Definition Language19Bringing It All Together:SharePoint 2010 Search Demo
- 64. 21Advanced Scenarios withFAST Search
- 65. 22Advanced Scenarios with FAST SearchContextual Audience Targeting
- 66. Search results and best bets can be targeted to specific audiences
- 67. Results can be targeted based on what group or office a user belongs to
- 68. Results can also be targeted based on a user’s expertise or other profile data23Advanced Scenarios with FAST SearchRenee Lo, EngineerWhat should I know about implementing ERP?Alan Brewer, SalesWhat should I know about selling ERP consulting?
- 69. 24Advanced Scenarios with FAST SearchVisual Cues
- 70. Visual Best Bets
- 71. Support plug-in graphicresults, videos, orinteractive tools
- 73. Allow you to easilydistinguish betweenfiles based on thumbnails
- 75. Full document view isonly one click away25Advanced Scenarios with FAST SearchDeep Refinement
- 76. Refinement panels in FAST give exact # of results
- 77. Navigators are based on all data, not just a subset
- 78. Built-in support for sorting by any property
- 79. Eliminate duplicates automatically26Advanced Scenarios with FAST SearchFlexible Content Pipeline
- 80. FAST introduces a “Content Pipeline”
- 81. Sequential stages perform specific tasks on content
- 82. Breaks down content into discrete parts
- 83. Understands file encoding, data formats, and written languages
- 84. Custom stages can be built to enrich content
- 85. The Content Pipeline tries to infer known properties (names, addresses, dates)
- 86. e.g. Author property of “John Doe” is automatically picked up from “By John Doe”…FormatConversionLemmatizationLanguageDetectionEntityExtractionMapper
- 87. 27Advanced Scenarios with FAST SearchDurability and Immense Scale
- 88. Deployments can scale as large as needed in query and index dimensions
- 89. All node types can be configured with failovers
- 90. Natively understands over 400 document types and 85 languages
- 92. 30 million documents / node
- 93. 50 queries / sec / node
- 94. 35 documents indexed / sec / node28Advanced Scenarios with FAST SearchScale-out Multiple “Dimensions”Content VolumeQuery VolumeIndexing FreshnessRedundancy OptionsSearchIndexingPerformance Targets*15M Docs/column30 QPS/rowQuery VolumeSearch and IndexingQuery and Result ProcessingContent VolumeCrawling and Content Processing
- 97. 31Questions?
- 98. 32Bert JohnsonSharePoint Architect with West Monroe PartnersMicrosoft Certified Master – SharePoint Server 2010Twitter: @SPBert Event Hashtag: #sps2011Email: bert@bertjohnson.net
- 99. Where else can you find WMP at the summit?Records Management Capabilities in SharePoint 2010Coskun Cavusoglu3:00 – 4:15 How We Did It/Case Study: A SharePoint 2007 extranet solution provides valuable new capabilities and helps transform members' online experience.Kyle SnyderWed: 11:30 – 12:4533
- 100. 34Appendices
- 101. 35Microsoft Search Solutions Compared
- 102. 36Microsoft Search Solutions Compared
- 103. 37Enterprise Search Using SharePoint 2010 and FAST