Even if your organization has produced millions of quality documents, this fact is useless if you are not able to accurately locate the information when it’s needed. With SharePoint Foundation 2010, you can find just the right information to get your job done, quickly and conveniently.
Besides offering the traditional search capability for documents or other types of content, SharePoint also provides intranet search, people search, and a platform to build search-driven applications, all on a single, cost-effective infrastructure.
The biggest driver that sets SharePoint 2010 Search apart from other search technologies is its combination of relevance, refinement, and people. You can drill down through clutter to locate the specific content, individuals, or information that you need.
Chances are that your organization has a lot of information in several different formats located within several different systems and databases. If you were to look for a specific piece of information, you might become inundated with all of the possible choices. SharePoint Foundation 2010 brings order to this chaos via its interactive and visual search experience. You can use visual cues to find information quickly, while the refiners (a tool with which you can select the actual information that you want to view, be it by format, author, size, or date) let you drill down into the results to find even greater insights.
It is a well-known fact that an organization’s greatest assets are its people. Each person is on staff to fill specific duties, but an individual does more than just fill a position. Each person brings with them education, expertise, and experiences that can be useful in other areas beyond the job description alone. By using SharePoint Foundation 2010, your organization can unlock these skills and talents. In turn, you can locate the human resources that you need so that you can share ideas and expertise to solve problems, improve processes, and foster innovation.
Not everyone searches for information using the same techniques; as such, previous search systems were not always useful to everyone. With SharePoint Foundation 2010, you can customize and personalize the search experience to meet the needs of those using it. On a single platform, you can add your own vocabulary, tune relevance, and use each person’s specific information to deliver a great search experience.
By using the new refinement panel in SharePoint 2010, you can narrow the results of your search and find the content that you are looking for even faster than before.
Unlock the vast store of the human knowledge, expertise, and experiences by searching for people, either by name or by associated terms.
Based on a individual’s particular details, he can search for different items, even though he uses the same search terms. Perhaps someone in the sales department is looking for information related to product offerings in Fiscal Year 2010. Someone in the finance department might be looking for budget information for that same period. Using traditional search technologies, each user could enter a search term of “FY 2010” and receive results from both sets of information. For both individuals, that’s probably more information than either one wanted.
Through the use of keywords and audience targeting, you can provide a search experience that delivers the relevant information each person needs, based on the profile of the user or audience. In this example, the sales person could see at the top of his results the product catalogs from 2010, whereas the finance person could see the budgets for Fiscal Year 2010 presented at the top of her search results.