Search Design & Development
While our enterprise search consulting services set the course towards a successful end result, it’s our team of skilled technical specialists that walk the path. Whether your users range in the hundreds or the millions; whether the data being searched ranges in the megabytes or terabytes; We have experience developing it all.
Search Design & Development
While our enterprise search consulting services set the course towards a successful end result, it’s our team of skilled technical specialists that walk the path. Whether your users range in the hundreds or the millions; whether the data being searched ranges in the megabytes or terabytes; We have experience developing it all.
Key Steps
When designing, developing and implementing enterprise search architectures, we cover several important areas that contribute towards a successful search implementation, including;
- Planning and outlining a detailed topology of search components
- Making sure the designed solution will adapt well within your existing network topology (or propose the necessary changes required to make the solution fit in)
- Performance optimization suggestionsPreliminary sizing to help with hardware procurement
- Fail-over and load balancing planning and implementation to ensure stability and up-time
- Setting up proper indexing solutions for each data repository that needs to be made searchable
- And more
Functionality Considerations
There is much to think about in terms of the features you would like the search solution to offer, and here are some considerations;
- Search results relevancy tuning
- Faceted search (guided navigation, parametric search/refinement, etc.)
- Taxonomy planning, implementation and management
- Search auto-completion (suggest as you type)
- Automatic guided navigation
- Field based searching (text, numeric, date, etc.)
- Recommended results (suggested links, best bets, promoted results, etc.)
- Search result security and entitlements
- Capturing, monitoring and using statistics to improve your search
- And more
The User Experience
The UI is just as important as the technology behind it, because a user must be able to intuitively compose the search they wish to be able to derive the results they wish.
From websites to mobile apps, we can design and build an effective user interface to facilitate the search needs of you and your users. We start with prototypes and proof-of-concepts, and can integrate all sorts of functionality and special features that will work seamlessly with your existing environment. We can also work directly with your UI/application experts should it be required.
Bringing our experience to the user experience, trust us to deliver the enterprise search solution you’re looking for.
