Vendor Showcases

Earley & Associates often works with vendors who provide products we believe are unique to the marketplace. The Vendor Showcase is a sponsored webinar series that presents products and tools from select vendors.

SharePoint Search

Date: 
March 30, 2010 - 1:00 - 2:00 EDT
Speakers: 
. Toby Conrad

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, organizational principles, and search configuration as any portal or intranet. Don’t let your content get lost in a labyrinth of libraries – learn how to maximize enterprise value from your SharePoint deployment.

Topics include:

  • Improving search in SharePoint 2007
  • Enhancements and limitations in SharePoint 2010
  • Adding taxonomy, ontology, and classification support to SharePoint
  • Using FAST ESP with SharePoint

Free with registration

Optimizing Search with FAST

Date: 
May 11, 2010 - 1:00 - 2:00 EDT
Speakers: 
. Toby Conrad

This session will cover the nuts & bolts of how to develop and tune FAST search capabilities, and how to enable FAST-based portals to offer specific contextual navigation mechanisms that enhance the search/navigation experience.
Topics include:

  • Methods for boosting FAST performance, precision, and ability with metadata
  • Adding semantic processing to further automate tasks involving unstructured information and trigger workflows
  • Real world client examples and case studies

Free with registration

Past Showcases

Improving Your Google Search Appliance Implementation

Date: 
February 16, 2010 - 1:00 - 2:00 EST
Speakers: 
. Toby Conrad, Jim Orris
Make your Google Search Appliance deliver the search experience your users always wanted but you never thought possible:
  • More accurate results
  • More complete results
  • Intuitive yet powerful content navigation

Discover how GSA users like NASA, Partners Healthcare, and Bank of America are using ontologies and automatically generated metadata to make content quicker to find, topics easier to explore, and resources simpler to locate.