1. Your Content, Your Search, Your Decision
Agnes Molnar
Senior Search Solutions Consultant, MVP
BA Insight
2. Introduction
Senior Solutions Consultant, Project Lead
SharePoint Server MVP
Speaker, Blogger, Community Lead
http://aghy.hu
http://www.bainsight.com
Agnes.Molnar@BAInsight.com
@molnaragnes
3. Data Growth and Transformation
2006 2010 2015
Source: IDC
(1 Exabyte = 1 Million Terabytes)
State of the Enterprise
30%
Unstructured
Data
60%
Unstructured 90%
Unstructured Data
Data
161 Exabytes
988 Exabytes
10+ Data Silos
80+ Data Silos
8,000 Exabytes
500+ Data Silos
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4. Information Architecture
The art and science of organizing and labeling
the CONTENT
(documents, web sites, blog posts, database entries,
etc.)
to support findability and usability
5. Search
Connects people
to the information
they need to get their jobs done
Source: http://searchpatterns.org
6. Enterprise Search
Search Technology
that your organization
owns and controls
7. Search Scenarios
I know what I am searching for and I know how to
do it.
I know what I am searching for but I don’t know
how to do it.
I don’t know what I am searching for.
Am I doing Search?
12. Content Metadata - Properties
Not in SharePoint only!
File Shares
File extension, size, author, Created Date, Modified Date, …
Pictures: width, height, longitude, latitude, color scheme, …
Emails (Exchange, Lotus Notes, eVault, …)
From, To, Sent Date, Subject, Body, …
ECM / DMS / RMS
File extension, size, author, Created Date, Modified Date, …
Document ID, Project ID, Customer ID, Location, Team Members, …
Approval Status, Feedbacks collected, Comments, Billing info, …
Record Status, Record ID, Retention, Hold, …
Databases
Any DB fields (single or combined)
13. Search Metadata -Crawled/Managed Properties
Crawled Property:
extracted from the content source
during the crawl
Managed Property:
created in the index
based on Crawled Properties
controlled by the Search Admins
helping users perform more efficient and successful queries:
Refiners
Properties displayed in Search Results
Sorting Properties (FAST)
14. Managed Properties
Name, Description
Type (Text / Integer / Boolean / Float / Decimal / DateTime)
Mappings to Crawled Properties
Other settings
15. Managed Properties
Crawled Property Managed Property
Author
Created
By Author
From