Types of Search: Mechanisms and Approaches

Search Solutions Call 3
Content is heterogeneous.  Search tools and mechanisms can vary along with types of content and information sources.  

This session will survey different classes of search tool and how to match search approaches with access scenarios.  We will cover classes of search technology and review the differences between metadata based search, full text search, rules based approaches, various statistical approaches.  Increasingly search is being used in conjunction with highly structured data such as that from Business Intelligence systems.  We’ll look at the “continuum of content structure” and how search can access more conventional corporate data sources.

This session looks at the growing role of Search in an Enterprise BI Environment. With such a simple medium familiar to most people, opening up interactive use of BI via search can have enormous business benefits. Search can be used to open up BI access to a much wider group of users and also provide a way to extract additional insight from unstructured content. Also Search can offer up a new form of intelligence from analysis of all content indexed by search.

 Presenters: Mike Ferguson, Chris Modzelewski