Enterprise Search: Enhancing Business Performance

Is your organization rapidly accumulating more information than you know how to manage? This updated edition helps you create an enterprise search solution based on more than just technology. Author Martin White shows you how to plan and implement a managed search environment that meets the needs of your business and your employees. Learn why it’s vital to have a dedicated staff manage your search technology and support your users.

Enterprise search is now moving from a "nice to have" to a "need to have" application as organizations struggle to find the information they need to make good business decisions. With this book, business managers, IT managers, and information professionals can maximize the value of corporate information and data assets.

New and updated material for this second edition includes: updated surveys, open source search, eDiscovery, mobile search, big data and content analytics, as well as a chapter on the future of enterprise search.

Use 12 critical factors to gauge your organization’s search needs
Learn how to make a business case for search
Research your user requirements and evaluate your current search solution
Create a support team with technical skills and organizational knowledge to manage your solution
Set quality guidelines for organizational content and metadata
Get an overview of open source and commercial search technology
Choose an application based on your requirements, not for its features
Make mobile and location-independent search part of your solution