Enterprise Search

With content on desktops, corporate intranets, and public websites, companies require a number of search solutions – desktop search, intranet search and web (Internet) search. Multiple disconnected search tools are the norm today. DataLan’s Enterprise Search Solutions leverage Microsoft’s Integrated Search Technologies. Microsoft’s strategy is to deliver an integrated user experience for desktop, intranet, and web search – allowing users to quickly find information regardless of where it’s located. This not only means integration between various search tools, but also making search pervasive across familiar applications and interfaces – letting users find information in-context of where they are working – whether that be on their Windows desktop, on their portal or team sites, or within their Microsoft Office applications.

80% of a company’s information is stored in unstructured form – documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc. This information is spread across the enterprise on file shares, web sites, SharePoint sites, and in repositories like Exchange public folders, Lotus Notes databases and others. Though users may have access to these common repositories, the sheer amount of information makes it so difficult to find the right information that it may as well be unavailable. The other 20% of a company’s information is stored in structured repositories like relational databases and line-of-business applications such as ERP or CRM systems. We know that common business processes require information workers to use information from multiple structured and unstructured repositories; so with Microsoft Search for intranets, we deliver search technology that can search across various structured and unstructured repositories and return a unified set of relevant results in familiar interfaces and applications.

But data is only half of the equation. Some sources suggest that up to 80% of the knowledge that exists in an organization is considered to be “tacit knowledge”—information that is undocumented and therefore difficult to access. People leverage tacit knowledge by tapping into their social networks to discover who can help them. In a sense, people are the gateways to tacit knowledge. Microsoft search solutions bring together the worlds of social networking and expertise location to solve the tacit knowledge problem. By providing the ability to search for people inside and external to your company based on skills, areas of expertise, social distance to you or those you know, and a host of other criteria, Microsoft search solutions help you tap the most valuable resource you have – your people.

DataLan Enterprise Search Solutions provide search tools that deliver enterprise-grade features and functionality, seamless access to your business data and expertise, and a fully integrated user experience.

Elements Desktop search for structured and unstructured data Intranet search for structured and unstructured data Internet search Search for people and social networking Related Service Offerings Information Worker Application Proof of Concept Information Worker Application Requirements and Design

Technologies Office SharePoint Server Windows Desktop Search Knowledge Network for MOSS