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Andrew MaiseyProduct Development Manager
The Business Benefits of Federated Searching
Search Solutions 200723 May 2007
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The Business Benefits of Federated Searching
1. The business benefits of federated searching
2. The business benefits of federated searching
3. The business benefits of federated searching
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The Benefits of Search
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The Benefits of Search
2003
• 4,000,000,000 pages
• 15,000 servers2006 … estimated
• 20,000,000,000+ pages
• ? servers
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The Options for Search
Niche players; Hummingbird, Intelliseek, ISYS, Mercado Software, Mondosoft, Thunderstone, ZyLAB…
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The Options for Search
• Search syntaxBoolean, proximity, phrase, wildcards,
masking, ranges, NL…
• Content analysisSummaries, categorisation, concepts
• Advanced UIBrowsing, drill down, taxonomies
Proprietary index
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The Options for Search
• Trained peopleSupport, maintain, optimise, 24*7*365
• Dedicated hardwareInfrastructure, systems administration
• NetworkBandwidth, access
Proprietary index
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Acquiring Content
• Latency
• Integrations
• Subscription sites
• Timing
• Backups
Crawling and indexing
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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
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Federated Search
• Broadcast - anywhere
• Mimicking user behaviour
• Unified results
Reduced cost of ownership, deployment and maintenance
What it does…
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Federated Search
Does this without requiring
• Large licence costs
• Dedicated teams
• Dedicated hardware
• Changing existing working practices
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• Quick win access
• Maximises ROI and reuse
• Single sign on
• Content consolidation
• Frees internal resources
Business benefits
The Business Benefits of Federated Searching
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The Business Benefits of Federated Searching
• Instant one stop search
• Save time searching
• Increase search depth
• Uncover hidden content
Quick wins
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The Business Benefits of Federated Searching
• One tool – many sources
• Connect to anything
• Improve content reuse
• Maximise existing ROI
Maximise ROI and reuse
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The Business Benefits of Federated Searching
• Final or interim solution
• Save money, save time
• Easy to deploy
• No changes to working practices
Content consolidation
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The Business Benefits of Federated Searching
• Source level authentication
• No changes
• No costs
• Controlled access to subscription sites
• Auditing and charging
Single Sign On
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• Reduced application development / support
• READ-only – done
• One corporate interface
• Reduced external costs
Frees internal resources
The Business Benefits of Federated Searching
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• Licence
• Hardware
• System administration
• Implementation
• Training
Lower costs – same benefits
The Business Benefits of Federated Searching
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• Access more…now
• Migrate when practical
• Free up development teams
• Single interface
• Spend less
• Access without latency
• No proprietary index pitfalls
• Avoid network issues
The Business Benefits of Federated Searching