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Toy Designer Reduces Time-to-Market With Enhanced Search, Workflow Capabilities | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Strottman International wanted to improve its document management and collaboration solution, so the company worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner eConsortium to upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Its new solution helps Strottman streamline operations by making information easier to find and share. This in turn improves customer service and cuts days off of development time, thus increasing the company's capacity and revenue.
Tags: Workflow Management, Office Suites |
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Semantic Middleware Vendor Adds Findability to Search Solutions While Reducing the Cost | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Smartlogic Semaphore software makes unstructured data more findable. By creating out- of-the box integration between Semaphore and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Smartlogic offers customers a powerful enterprise search solution, while reducing development complexity and lowering costs. And by enrolling in the Microsoft Partner Program, Smartlogic gained technical and marketing support to help it expand into new markets.
Tags: Software Development Tools, Office Suites |
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Manufacturer's Search Solution Enables Global Collaboration on Massive Files | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Chart Industries needed to enable its people to find, use, and share massive engineering files across its global enterprise. Its solution is Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Coveo Enterprise Search, from Microsoft Certified Partner Coveo. Solution use climbed 150 percent in five months, signaling major user acceptance. Now users are more productive, and a reduction in support requests means that IT is more productive, too.
Tags: Internet and Web, Office Suites |
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Programming Collective Intelligence: Searching and Ranking | 2007-08-01 | O'Reilly Media |
| This paper covers full-text search engines, which allow people to search a large set of documents for a list of words, and which rank results according to how relevant the documents are to those words. Algorithms for full-text searches are among the most important collective intelligence algorithms, and many fortunes have been made by new ideas in this field. It is widely believed that Google's rapid rise from an academic project to the world's most popular search engine was based largely on the PageRank algorithm, a variation that the user will learn about in this paper.
Tags: Software Development Tools, Software Development Tools |
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Studying the Use of Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction | 2007-07-27 | Association for Computing Machinery |
| This paper presents a novel web search interaction feature which, for a given query, provides links to websites frequently visited by other users with similar information needs. These popular destinations complement traditional search results, allowing direct navigation to authoritative resources for the query topic. Destinations are identified using the history of search and browsing behavior of many users over an extended time period, whose collective behavior provides a basis for computing source authority. This paper describes a user study which compared the suggestion of destinations with the previously proposed suggestion of related queries, as well as with traditional, unaided web search. | |||
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Portuguese Consultants Increase Productivity by 30 Per Cent With New Desktop Solutions | 2007-07-25 | Microsoft |
| Employees at recruitment consultants HiValue Human Capital need to search CVs rapidly. The company, based in Portugal, joined the Technology Adoption Programme for Windows Vista Business and rolled out a beta version of the 2007 Microsoft Office system to ensure consultants had maximum support in searching candidates' testimonials, while protecting data from viruses and worms.
Tags: Desktop Client OS |
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A.T. Kearney Improves Ability to Manage and Share Intellectual Capital Across the Organization | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| A.T. Kearney, Inc. is one of the world's largest management consulting firms. With a global presence spanning major and emerging markets, A.T. Kearney provides strategic, operational, organizational, and technology consulting services to the world's leading companies. The company wanted to leverage expertise in specific knowledge areas and apply it not only in a local or regional perspective but globally. The challenge was to protect sensitive data from unauthorized personnel and improve accuracy and efficiency. The company implemented Oracle Secure Enterprise Search to improve the company's ability to manage and share intellectual capital across the organization - locally, regionally, and globally.
Tags: Data Infrastructure |
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Desktop Application Searches Online Media Catalog | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| PixelMill is a designer, builder, collector, and online seller of high-quality Web templates (predesigned Web site layouts) and publishing tools for novice to savvy web site builders. Corbis is the world's preeminent visual solutions provider. PixelMill wanted to create an easy-to-use desktop catalog of selected design templates; Corbis wanted to create an easy-to-use desktops catalog of its stock photography. PixelMill provided Microsoft .NET Framework-based Web Service for searching and accessing its content, and developed a windows forms application in C# for searching catalog.
Tags: Internet and Web, Software Development Tools |
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Global Law Firm Uses Search Solution to Improve Access to Information | 2007-07-01 | Microsoft |
| Tired of getting irrelevant search results, many employees at Covington & Burling LLP did not use the firm's legacy search solution to find information on the firm's intranet. As a result, the global law firm's 650 lawyers and their support staff couldn't take advantage of information resources, which could have increased their productivity. Covington & Burling deployed Enterprise Search from Microsoft, an integrated part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The search solution has unlocked the value of Covington's rich information resources so that employees around the world can quickly find structured and unstructured information. Employees now use Enterprise Search within a redesigned intranet to quickly locate the internal services and information resources that they need to work efficiently.
Tags: Internet and Web, Software Development Tools |
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Deploying and Supporting Enterprise Search: Using SharePoint Server 2007 to Help Employees Locate Information and People at Microsoft | 2007-07-01 | Microsoft |
| Read this paper to see why the solution to the problem of identifying and crawling the information that Microsoft has stored on a variety of internal content sourcesÃÂand to keep the index up to date with new content and content types that are added in the futureÃÂis the Enterprise Search feature provided in Microsoftî Office SharePointî Server 2007. The new enhancements of the Search feature incorporate fast searching and the Indexing Service. Fast searching builds off the Indexing Service of Microsoft Office 2000 to create database catalogs of the Microsoft Office files that are available on a computer's hard disk, in projects, and in Office SharePoint Web folders. Microsoft built the Indexing Service feature from the Index Server technology of Microsoft Windowsî 2000 to create a better cataloging experience for fast searching and to offer the ability to search any Microsoft Office file for information that the file contains.
Tags: Enterprise Planning, Internet and Web, Data Infrastructure, Office Suites |
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