2. Why is Search Important?
Saves Time (which saves money)
Average Industry Metric: Up to 25% of an employee’s
time is spent looking for the same information
Ouch. So an employee earning $40k a year is costing you
$10k alone in time lost… multiple that by X and wow!
And that other metric: Users spend 10% of their time,
recreating information they can’t find
Ouch. So that’s another $4k per year for that user, of which
they are adding to crappy search results (adding to the
clutter)
3. How Has Search Improved in 2010?
Yeesh. How has it not improved?
Wildcard Search
Boolean (and/or/not) and Partial Word Search
Refinement Panel
More Flavours/Offerings:
Search Server Express 2010
SharePoint Server
Fast Search
4. Searching vs. Filtering
Search utilizes content that has been
‘crawled/indexed’)
A search is performed using an input box and a
button, placement is up to you
Filtering is breaking down data real-time in a
list or library
You filter by using the columns in a list or library,
by surfacing content on a dashboard or using the
Filtering web parts (most of which are in the
Enterprise CAL)
5. Search is Amazing But…
There is no excuse for bad placement of data
Security and sites are valuable
Exclude content that doesn’t need to be searched
Don’t simply migrate all your old content into SharePoint
Site Navigation and Good Dashboard Design orient people
Search is for finding content
6. The Line Up
$ - SharePoint Foundation
You get what you pay for
$ - Search Server Express 2010
You actually get what you don’t pay for…
$$ - SharePoint Server (Standard and Enterprise)
$$$$ - SharePoint Fast Search
7. SharePoint Foundation
You get what you pay for
You can search within your site collection context
only
No Refinements
No Search Centers or search page customizations
Limited iFilter capabilities (difficult to implement)
No Scopes, or sources other than SharePoint
Content
8. SharePoint Server (Standard & Enterprise)
Ability to define scopes, schedules and crawl other content including
websites, File Shares, etc.
Easily implement iFilters for PDF and other file types
The Refinement Panel & Best Bets
Search Reporting (Emails, etc.)
9. Search Server Express 2010
You actually get what you don’t pay for… (thanks Google!)
Make Foundation *better*
Ability to define scopes, schedules and crawl other content
including websites, File Shares, etc.
Basically, the same search that ships with SharePoint Server –
but it doesn’t scale the same (or much at all)
10. SharePoint Fast Search
• Lots of Content (100+ million items)
• Document Previews for .DOCX and .PPTX
12. The Traditional Home Page
Content Driven Home Pages are fine but they require:
Work (to keep them fresh)
Someone to read them
Resources (people to populate data, bandwidth to pull new content)