"An Enterprise Search system enables you to index, search, and display selected content to authorised users”  CMS Watch

“What’s the point of knowing you have the information if you can’t find it”
Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd

This briefing covers:

• What enterprise search is and does and the benefits it brings
• How enterprise search differs from website search and search engine optimisation
• Searching within SharePoint
• Search strategies
• Indexing content
• Display strategies – what to make available to whom
• Benefits in cost and productivity
• Implications for working procedures and training to search most efficiently
• Learning from the patterns of searchers 
• User-centered search design
• Implementing, upgrading and improving enterprise search strategies and systems
• Available technology and its system constraints
• Integrating search functionality into websites and applications
• Designing advanced search and search results pages
• Searching for images and audiovisual content
• Maximising the use of the searcher’s pre-existing and expanding knowledge
• Search analytics and social search
• Search technologies currently on offer
• How ‘searching’ is developing – what’s next, and after that

As essential briefing for all…

Full documentation will be provided and adequate time set aside for questions.