Architecting and Developing Search-Enabled Enterprise Applications with MOSS Beat Schwegler Enterprise & Technical Evangelism Lead Microsoft WE HQ

Some Facts from an IDC Survey An average IW with a salary of $60,000 per year Spends 9.5hr per week searching for information This costs ~$15,000 per worker per year Out of the 9.5hr 3.5hr were completely wasted $5000 (8.3% of salary) wasted per worker per year!

Agenda PART I A Primer to Search in the Enterprise PART II Search-Enable Applications PART III Search as an Application Capability

Part I A Primer to Search

New York Times Reader Demo

Navigation Explore a given context

Search Explore out of context

How searchable are your Apps?

However…

…it’s not only about your Application

Search across different collaborative and lob systems

Leverage search to get more COntext

Search can help when dealing with exceptions

Finding people, processes and information

Web Search vs. Enterprise Search

Enterprise Search

People and information

Relevancy and ranking

Privacy and compliance

Structured and unstructured data

Different User experiences

Part II Search-Enable Applications

Search Architecture

Search and Indexing Architecture

Search Scopes

Search-Enable Applications Build applications on a searchable platform Make your own file formats searchable Search enable databases and web services Introduce bookmarks

Build Applications on MOSS

Make your own file formats Crawlable

Protocol Handler

IFilter

How TO MAKE LOB DATA Searchable?

Business Data Catalog (BDC) Surfaces business data from backend applications Web Services and databases Data access based on declarative metadata model

BDC Search Demo

Part III Search as an Application Capability

Search as an Application Capability URL Syntax Search URL based Search RSS Search Query Web Service

URL Syntax SEarch

URL Syntax Search Great for quick and simple search integration Based on HTTP GET Result page can be customized Available Query String Parameters: http://results.aspx?k=architect&s=CRM

URL Syntax Search Demo

Search Query Web Service

Search Query Web Service Integrates search tightly into your application Service location depending on site structure http://Server_Name/[sites/][Site_Name/]_vti_bin/search.asmx

Search Query Web Service Demo

Last but not Least

The Database of Intention “A search engine knows what people are looking for”

Query Reporting

Search is a business process in its own right

We need to search-enable our applications

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