Citing a number of uses cases, Kamran Khan, CEO of Search Technologies, presented a keynote address at the KMWorld 2016 conference in Washington, DC about the evolution of search and big data.
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The Evolution of Search and the Union with
Big Data
Kamran Khan
President & CEO
16th November 2017
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Agenda
• About Search Technologies
• Changes in the Search Space Over the Past Decade
• Search & Big Data Case Studies
• Making Implementations Easier
• Closing Remarks
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Search Technologies: Who We Are
The leading independent IT services firm specializing in the design,
implementation, and management of enterprise search and big
data search solutions.
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Search Can Power Big Data Analytics
Our Vision
“You know, people today think that search and big data are separate but in
two or three years, everyone will wonder why we ever thought that.”
- Doug Cutting
“Search is very good at finding interesting things buried under mounds of
information. It can provide access across a wide variety of content types and a
flexible, and intuitive interface for exploring data.”
- Darin Stewart
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Forrester Validates Search Market Evolution
• Modern search is about
knowledge, not keywords
• New data types and sources
• New query methods
• New methods to display results
• Search applications enable new
use cases
• VS. simple standalone search
*Forrester Wave: Big Data Search and Knowledge Discovery Solutions Q3 2015
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Components in the ST Enterprise Search Stack
• Open Source Search Engine
– Elasticsearch or Solr
• No-SQL Database
• Content Processing
• Staging Repository
• Node.JS Application Server
• Angular & Bootstrap End-User
Interface
• Admin User Interface
The ST Enterprise Search Stack
Search UI
Search Engine
Node.JS
Content Processing
Staging Repository
No-SQL
DB
Admin
UI
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Big Data
The Open Source Search Stack
API Server (Node.JS)
Web
Browser
Search Engine (Elasticsearch or Solr) No-SQL
Database
Mobile
Web
Apps
Staging Repository (Node.JS)
Aspire
SharePoint
File
Shares
RDBMS
Apps
Data
Warehouse
Other
Sources
Big Data
Framework
• Entire Stack
runs inside
Cloudera
• Replace search
engine with
Cloudera
Search
HBase
Cloudera Search
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Thank you!
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