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Employees Gain Better Access to Corporate, Industry Information With Enterprise Search | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Endsleigh Insurance Services staffers did not use the search functionality on their intranet to find information because it delivered irrelevant results. In response, Endsleigh deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Enterprise Search. Using Office SharePoint Server 2007, Endsleigh redesigned its intranet. With Enterprise Search, staffers have experienced a 100 percent improvement in search results, improving their productivity.
Tags: Search Strategies, Collaboration Tools |
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Financial Firm Boosts Users' Productivity, Reduces Desktop Support Calls by 80 Percent | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Allecon Stock Associates administers stock-options services for corporate employee-benefit plans. The company wanted to standardize the software that ran on its 30 desktop computers to reduce the number of support calls and increase user productivity. Allecon decided to deploy the Windows Vista Business operating system so that the IT staff could easily create a single desktop standard, increase application stability, and reduce downtime. Users have found that the Windows Aero user experience and integrated desktop search capability help them increase their efficiency and save up to 20 minutes a day. Allecon expects these productivity gains to enable stock administrators to take on more clients.
Tags: GUI, Windows Vista |
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Dell's OEM Industry Solutions Group and Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers Form the Foundation for the Google Search Appliance | 2007-09-01 | Dell |
| Google's Enterprise division brings Google search tools and technologies to companies, universities, and government agencies. Google required extensive customization, single-point contact and fulfillment, and high product quality to bring the Google Search Appliance to the enterprise. Dell's OEM Industry Solutions Group provides extensive customization to Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers running the Linux operating system to form the foundation for the Google Search Appliance; Dell OEM Industry Solutions Group provides a single source of sales and technical expertise, customer fulfillment, and worldwide regulatory compliance capabilities.
Tags: Search Strategies, Linux Server OS |
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Microsoft Office Live Seminar: Scott Linzer Presents, "Search Engine Marketing That Drives Results" | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is now mainstream marketing for many of the Fortune 500, but how can one get more out of this medium? How can a person use Search to inform messaging, branding, and be a part of social media. This webcast is how to take Search to next level. The webcast will be centered around how to maximize efficiencies from Search. How to think of it, sell it to upper management, and how to create a disproportionate advantage against the competition.
Tags: Sales - Marketing |
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Dell Upgrades to SQL Server 2000, Experiences 33 Percent Improvement in Search Performance | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Dell Computer Corporation, until recently, was relying on a Dell 8450 eight-way database server. This server ran Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 to store and manage product data, specifications, and pricing data for all items offered on the Software and Accessories site. Due to the nature of the products offered on the Software and Accessories site, generally accessories and software, this server has to support a large number of small-dollar transactions. As a solution Dell improved the site's search capabilities and performance by upgrading the Software and Accessories database server to SQL Server 2000 and taking advantage of the new and improved Full-Text Search capabilities.
Tags: Search Strategies |
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Agricultural Innovator Empowers Employees, Cuts Costs With Integrated Enterprise Search | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Monsanto Company, a global agricultural company, faced a license renewal deadline for its search engine used in more than 20 public Web sites and numerous intranet sites. Search results did not live up to expectations, and the tool was costly and cumbersome to manage. Monsanto evaluated Google and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It chose Office SharePoint Server 2007 for its feature set, and for the value of a search solution that extended enterprise search capabilities from traditional corporate information to people and expertise. Integration between Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the familiar Microsoft Office system programs was another reason why Monsanto decided on Microsoft technologies.
Tags: Search Strategies, Collaboration Tools |
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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: Groupware - Workflow, Collaboration Tools |
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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: Middleware, Collaboration Tools |
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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: Search Strategies, Collaboration Tools |
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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: Programming Languages, Application Development |
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