Enhance your MOSS Search with Ontolica Search
Allen Anderson (allen@surfray.com) Regional Sales Manager Surfray, Inc. Daniel Cohens-Dumani CEO Portal Solutions – Surfray Partner
Company profile
• Navigo Systems • Mondosoft aquired NavigoSystems in 2006 • Mondosoft (1998) acquired by SurfRay in Oct 2007 • Over 2,700 customers world wide & 150 SI Partners world wide • Headquarters in Copenhagen, offices in USA and Thailand • Product lines – Stand alone Enterprise Search products – Add-in Search Solution for the MOSS platform • Featured Product: Ontolica Search for MOSS 2007 (also SPS 2003) • Microsoft Gold & Managed Partner • Privately Held • LASER-FOCUSED on Standalone Search Technologies and extending SharePoint’s Search Capabilities.
Just a few of our 2,700 clients worldwide
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From Search to Knowledge Access
Ontolica Categorization Server – a taxonomy tool - Content Organization - Tree – view display - Searchable
Ontolica Reporting (expected BETA Q4, 2008) - Advanced Search Analytics - Usage statistics - Storage Stats
Ontolica Search - Drill down - Wildcard Search - Metadata search - Image Search - Federated Search - Search across WSS and MOSS
FREE edition of Ontolica Wildcard Search - Sign up on www.ontolica.com
MOSS & Ontolica Search Architecture
Ontolica
Ontolica Webparts Ontolica Site templates Ontolica Configuration Ontolica Search Box
Ontolica … UI
Ontolica Query Interface
Results Query
Search Configuration Data
Ranking Keywords Best Bets
MOSS Backend
Query Engine
Stemmers
Schema
Scopes Crawl Log
Protocol Handlers
Content Index
iFilters
Wordbreakers
Index Engine
Content Sources
External Web Sites
SharePoint® Sites
Exchange Public Folders
Business Data
Network Shares
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Ontolica Search for MOSS 2007 – Feature Overview V3.2
Basic Search Operators • Wildcard search • Proximity • Improved Boolean search Pre and Post Filtering • Improved advanced search using property values!! • Faceted search • Quick filter search Configuration: • Control center for configuration • Import/export of configurations Other features: • Federated search • Configurable actions on result sets • Improved ”People Search”! • Improved ”Best Bets” • Image Search • Audience targeting • Results grouping
Ontolica Search licensing structure
The licensing/ price is based on number of Web Front End servers (WFE) Ontolica Search Server license => price per server External Connector: Ontolica for search on external website – anonymous access.
Developer license: licensed per development environment (unlimited servers)
Ontolica advantages
•Inexpensive plug-in/SharePoint Solution •Easy to install •No Security issues - Uses MOSS search engine •Only one search engine running •Reduces degradation •Reduces Power consumption – A ”Green Technology” •Does not introduce new challenges to the IT-department •Saves time and money – Can improve probably of locating a file from typically 40% to as much as 80%. •Increase Portal adoption rate – Search is the single most used navigation tool.
Full Boolean, proximity & wildcard search
• Wildcard search using the * operator • Boolean search using AND, OR, NOT operators • Proximity search using the NEAR operator
Advanced Search using Property Values
• Property values can be defined in lists, user defined or from a web service (new!) • Property values can be displayed in a drop down or in a value picker dialog.
Recommendation Drill Down Search
(Faceted Search)
Quick Filter
Configurable Actions on Result set
• Get access to make customized actions on the result set • Actions can depend on the type and properties of the search result • Actions can activate an URL or some javascript. Properties can be transferred as parameters.
Federated Search
•Each search tab can be connected to an individual index (Shared Service Provider) •Not possible with std MOSS!
Improved People Search
Support for wildcard. Can be enabled implicitly!
People can be sorted by name, title etc.
Improved Best Bets
Image Search
Installation & Configuration
“Control Center” - Configuration of search tabs / webparts
Import & Export of Configurations