Search is nothing without context. In this session we help you build your strategy around best serving your customers for Office 365 through planning and best practices. SharePoint 2013 is compared to Office 365 as well.
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Best Practices for Office
365 Search Planning
Joel Oleson
Director of Enterprise Search Strategy
BA Insight
@joeloleson
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Microsoft’s go-to ISV for
Enterprise Search
Focused on Search and
SharePoint since 2004
About Joel Oleson
• Director of Search
Strategy, BA Insight
• First SharePoint admin
• Top social media
influencer
Who Am I?
Passionate About
• Search
• SharePoint
• Search-based
applications
• Community
• Travel
Connect
@joeloleson
CollabShow.com
TravelingEpic.com
3. • Agenda…
• Feature Delta in Office 365 vs. SharePoint 2013 On
Premises
• Enterprise Search Strategy
• Context
• Content
• Metadata
• UX
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5. Enterprise search projects often fail because they do not meet users’
expectations and do not deliver a remarkable user experience.
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Killer Apps are Search Apps
6. On Premises
SharePoint
2013
Office 365
Small
Medium
Premium
Office 365
E, K, G
Plans
Search Connector
Framework
On Premises Index
Content
Processing
Entity Extraction
Custom Index
Schedules
7. Search Configuration Management
• Manage Result Sources (was search scopes)
• Manage and Configure Display Templates
• Result Types (Similar to Content Types for Search)
• Manage Query Rules
• Configure Search Web Parts
• Tune Relevancy
• Feedback
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Example Search Strategies
• Departmental/Functional – Intellectual Capital Search
• Universal search – Research based queries
• Intranet search – Docs, Records, and WCM search
• Search based Applications – Catalog, Videos,
• Use search as a platform – Content driven by Search
• Offer search as a service – Delivery platform
• Outsource search
• Hosted search – Search in the cloud. Azure, Elastic search.
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Does Context Really Matter?
Eric Cartman
Student
Colorado
Kim Kardashian
Author “Selfie Book”
Los Angeles
Gene Simmons
Rock Star
Los Angeles
Phil Robertson
Small Biz Owner
Louisiana Bayou
Parody and Photos characters and brands property of South Park studios, Kim’s Selfie, TLC, and A&E Networks
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21. Marketing Sales Consulting Procurement Production Research IT Support HR / Legal
Enterprise
content
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Context Matters in the Business
Users need to find different information
depending on their role , location,
responsibility and task at hand
24. Why not just index everything,
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so I can be like Google.
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How much do they actually index?
5.6% 1.7% 1%
Size of the Web
> 1,000,000,000,000 unique links to pages found Source: Google Blog
26. Anatomy of a Search:
Internet search has changed expectations for enterprise search
Revenue
$59.8 Billion Dollars in 2013
Relevancy
3000+ Engineers Tuning Relevancy
Tagged
100,000+ keywords managed + SEO
Contextual
Dynamically driven results
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Ranking Strategies
Level 1: Authoritative Sources
Official Corp, HR Policies, Cafeteria
Holidays, Best Bets, Recommended, etc…
Alt Sources: CRM, PeopleSoft, Profiles
Level 2: Published “Polished”
WCM, Records, Doc Mgmt, Catalogs
Alt Sources: IIS, Documentum, ICE, KBs
Level 3: Work in Progress
Social & Collab Sources
Team Sites, Social, & Collab, blogs
Alt Sources: PFs, eRooms, File Shares,
Level 4: Personal Content
Desktop, My Sites, File Shares, Dropbox
Level 5: Highly Classified
Sensitive/Do Not Index
Secure Locations… Invoicing, LCA, Financial
Default Search
Research Deep Search
90% of Searches
>1% of content
5% of Searches
10% of content
2% of Searches
40% of content
>1% of Searches
50% of content
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What is an Authoritative Source?
They have learned to only index authoritative sources
32. Why Enterprise Search Projects Fail…
Rarely able to find relevant data
• Research shows minimum of 27 characters is needed for relevancy in the enterprise
• The average search is only 1.2 words
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Successful enterprise search
requires users to be precise with an
understanding of how to build
intricate search queries.
Jakob Nielsen, Prioritizing Web Usability
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The New Role of Taxonomy – Noise Reduction
Eliminate Noise from Queries
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Keyword Search
Expertise in Keywords…
• Boolean = AND, OR, and NOT “dogs NOT cats”
• Phrase Searching – “Indoor Soccer”
• Natural Language - “What are the battlefields of the
civil war”
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Regular Maintenance
Continually analyze, gather feedback and tune your
search service and index
• Manage Recommend Results
• Add Promoted Results for Missing Query
• What’s Popular
• Term Store
• Managed Metadata
• Reviewing Reports
• Removing “Junk”
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Hybrid Cloud Adoption Patterns – O365
Search bridges the silos created by cloud adoption ->
Adopting Hybrid Cloud is a search project
1 of every 4 EPG customers is licensed for O365,
will be 1 of every 3 by June 2014, adopting in two patterns:
Split User Split Workload
An organization
splitting users within a
workload (Exchange or
SharePoint) between
On-Premises and
Online
Users on any of the
workloads (Exchange,
SharePoint or Lync) in
the cloud while using
other workloads On-
Premises
Across O365:
• Exchange
• Lync
• Yammer
• OneDrive
• SharePoint
Within SharePoint:
• Mysites
• TeamSites
• Extranet
• Intranet
• Focused Sites
• Services Farms
47. Advantages of Crawling Content Advantages of Federating Queries
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Mechanisms: Index versus Federate
• Control relevance and navigation
• Control how often the index is
updated
• Control what metadata is crawled
• Support content
processing/enrichment
• Ensure speed of response
• Control the load on the source
system
• Get at content that you can’t crawl
• No additional capacity
requirements for the content index
• Large Crawl processes do not
absorb Bandwidth
48. What Really Matters for Getting Good
Search Results in Office 365.
• Indexing the Right Content
• Setting up permissions properly
• Recommended Results
• Ranking
• Catalog of products and services
• Result Sets
• Refinement
• Preview
• Responsive Results
49. Search User Tips
• Free Text Queries
• Word
• Multi word (default will AND words)
• Phrase (in quotes)
• Boolean
• AND, OR, NOT
• Wildcard Search
• search fed*
• "micro*" finds documents that contain "Microsoft" or
"microchip"
• Property Search
• author:"William Zuckermann“
• Filetype:pptx
• filename:”search”
Hinweis der Redaktion
Walt: To ask after Animation 1 : “ How do we work around these limitations in Office 365?”
User Context in search is all about augmenting a search query with information that gives the query a greater level of meaning, or ‘understanding’.
As an organization we have access to information about a user that Web Search engines could only dream of – this is one of the levers that enterprises can use to bring a greater level of relevance to search inside the firewall.
Context is about information flowing to a user – the right information, at the right time – depending on where they are, what they’re doing, and what they need – one view.
It’s important to highlight that knowing the ‘what’, ‘why’, and ‘who’ of a search query you have greater control in bringing back better quality results.
In this case the ‘what’ is the question that the user is asking of the search application, the ‘why’ is a reflection of the business need, and the ‘who’ is the context or environment of the user.
Walt: To ask how the Patterns of Adoption apply to Search before animation 3