Metalogix Software has released Content Manager, a solution that makes it faster and more efficient to manage content in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The new solution enhances SharePoint with the ability to make bulk edits to metadata and a ribbon that makes it easier for users to have access to advanced features such as taxonomy.
Concept Searching has released conceptClassifier for SharePoint for Perkins+Will, an integrated design firm. Providing a solution for their cataloging challenge, they provided a way to organize the information stored on its intranet. They previously had multiple taxonomies. In the end, they had a logical collection of managed metadata that allowed the information to be found in a comprehensive way.
Optimizing storage to meet the needs of scalability for productivity and cost control is important for any business, and users of Microsoft SharePoint are no exception. SharePoint automatically stores data in SQL Server content databases. As a relational database, SQL is efficient at storing structured data, but less so when dealing with larger, non-relational data streams. Unfortunately, this can often account for up to 95 percent of all data in a typical organization.
Since the launch of SharePoint 2010, there are new options for taxonomies. This new version has a more evolved taxonomy management framework, a relatively robust tagging interface, and some functions to leverage the taxonomies in search and navigation.
I hope this series on search has been helpful to users and professionals alike. Let’s close with a look at taxonomies in SharePoint. Let’s look at this data flow in another way. We have incoming information; going to dump into a repository. We need to add metadata to that repository. We want to add taxonomy terms. The taxonomy terms all need to be controlled or suggested. So, there’s a backend to do that. Once we have the data in that repository it could be exported to a SQL or a relational database, transactional system, for e-commerce. It might be put into a repository so that the full displays can be done. It might be loaded into a search system and you also might have a presentation layer for display.
The first annual North American SHARE conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, Monday, April 23 to Thursday, April 26, 2012.
Smartlogic has released a new version of Semaphore, which offers additional features for enterprise search.
Access to information is something we take for granted more and more every day. The Internet has changed our ability to find information and locate data, close or remote. Smart phones have taken that availability to unimagined realms. In the corporate world, there are still two groups – those who have findability of their data and those who do not.