SharePoint expert Agnes Molnar will summarise the outcomes of projects, workshops and webinars that she has undertaken in 2013 to provide an assessment of the lessons learnt from organisations starting to make substantial use of the search capabilities of SharePoint 2013.
7. Search is Complex
Data Source
Data Source
Data Source
Data Source
Content
Source
Content
Source
Content
Source
Result
Source
Result
Source
Remote Search index
Local Search Index
Indexing
Federation
Query RuleQuery Rule Query Rule
Result Block
Result Block
Display
Templates
Refinement
Panel
Hover Panel
metadata
Result Set
Result Type
Result Type
8.
9. Content
Business
• Inventory of Repositories
– Content
– Volume
– Types
– Metadata
– Permissions
– Owners
Technology
• Content Sources
• Federation (Result
Sources)
• OOTB Connectors
• Business Connectivity
Services
• Custom or 3rd Party
Connectors
12. Processing
Business
• Classify
• “Learn” the Content
Technology
• OOTB “Entity Extraction”
– Very Limited
– Actually: Word and Word Part
Extraction
– Dictionary Based
– Configuration: scripting
• Custom (partial) Solutions
• 3rd Party Solutions
14. Aggregation
Business
• Information coming from
various repositories
• Filters
• Rules
Technology
• Content Search Web Part
• Custom Search Pages
• Result Blocks
• Result Sources
• Query Rules
• Managed Navigation
16. Display
Business
• Custom Search
Experience
• Different Experience for
Various Search Use
Cases
• Dashboards
Technology
• Display Templates
• Search Pages
• Managed Navigation
• Result Types
• Query Rules
• Content Search Web Part
18. Governance
• Easy to delegate
• Easy to customize
• Hard to track
• Hard to govern
19.
20. • Search is a Business Story
• Identify:
– Content
– Users
– Context (Use Cases, Stories)
• Analyze
– Technology and features OOTB
– Custom needs: BUILD vs. BUY