SharePoint Search

Maximize enterprise value from your SharePoint deployment

Earley & Associates first encountered Smartlogic’s Semaphore product during a vendor-neutral technology evaluation for a client’s SharePoint implementation. The verdict? Semaphore won across the board and came out on top in terms of: 

• Taxonomy and ontology management
• Integration stability with SharePoint
• Simplicity of automatic and human tagging
• Improvements to search relevance and ease of use

What is unique about Semaphore, and what impressed us enough to recommend Smartlogic above other vendors, is its ability to provide a taxonomy-based solution, where taxonomy drives the semantic lens of auto-classification and search. The most significant value delivered by Semaphore in a SharePoint deployment is user search experience and relevance and the interaction between automatic and end-user-driven tagging.

Why use taxonomy management with SharePoint?

Some organizations see SharePoint as an out-of-the-box solution that they can simply plug in and throw content into, but it requires as much thought and effort around data structure, organizing principles, and search configuration as any portal or intranet.

This session will discuss the current state of SharePoint 2007/2010, factors that impact search and findability, and highlight how Semaphore provides best in class functionality. Don’t let your content get lost in a labyrinth of libraries; join us to learn how to maximize enterprise value from your SharePoint deployment.

Topics include:

• Improving search in SharePoint 2007
• Taxonomy support options in SharePoint 2010
• FAST integration with SharePoint 2010
• Adding ontology and classification support
• Concept mapping for a user-driven search experience
• Surfacing related content with taxonomic relationships