Every multinational corporation requires a robust enterprise search application. But there are certain important points to consider before implementing a robust system within the organization.
Full Text Searches
Identify whether the organization requires full text searches, especially if the organization has more unstructured data like documents, articles, product descriptions, case studies, informal notes, web sites, discussion boards, wikis, emails, messages, job descriptions, resumes, patents, legal decisions, etc. Full text searches enable to locate the most relevant information about a specific topic or to explore an idea in general.
Ideal Results
Identification of ideal results is where the search application is able to maximize the ‘find-ability’ for different kinds of information. This factor is difficult to implement since the goal of search is not clear for the user at that point of time. For this to be implemented, factors like time and relevancy have to be inbuilt.
Clustering Results
Analyze whether your organization requires cluster results. It is slightly different from the ordered lists because it is able to categorize results under different sub-headings and project the data in such a way, that the user is able to exactly identify the information he is searching. Cluster results are useful when relevant results will not suffice for the project teams. Clustering results by a common subject, date, price range, or other attribute will aid the user to locate quickly what they require than searching through long results list from beginning to end.
Now that we have the three important factors analyzed it is important to choose an appropriate technology that will suit the organizational requirements. One useful way both to drive requirements and evaluate a technology is to build a proof of concept or prototype of the intended application.
Use a popular search library like
Lucene search or Solr search, which is ranked among the top five Apache projects.
The Solr search server provides application builders a ready-to-use search platform on top of the Lucene search library, and is the fastest growing Lucene sub-project.
Choose the right enterprise search technology for your organization, like Lucene Search or Solr Search, and enhance your employee creativity, innovation and productivity, eventually. The right technology will connect people through knowledge sharing and drive high business results.
