In Attendance:

·         Gail Corey (Microsoft)

·         Bob Wickland (Global Crossing)

·         Ed Wallace (Garlock)

·         Kevin Sciacca (URMC)

·         Kurt Co (URMC)

 

 

Welcome and Introductions

Short Sales Presentation of Ontolica from SurfRay by Gerald Dennis

·         Ontolica Search for MOSS 2007

·         Wildcard and NEAR Operator

·         Faceted Search

·         Search Result Grouping

·         Quick Filters

·         Property Filters

·         Actions of MOSS Results

·         Federated Search

·         Configuration of Web Parts

·         Audience Targeting

·         Advanced People Search

·         Advertising

·         OCR software

·         "If you can get SP to crawl it, you can get Ontolica to Search it"

·         It's a series of webparts that creates a better user interface. Presentation results are also improved for user consumption

·         What is need for a full time Search Administrator??

·   Analytical Services and Reporting Tool - search history and activity

·   May need more support upfront to get things going

·         Major updates? Not since last August 2007, when they moved to support MOSS 2007

·   How much money is going into R&D and improved features? Developers are finishing up the rpeorting engine right now. Reporting tool is an extra cost.

·   How much version shock was there with Search Server 2008? This is not compatible with Ontolical. It is actually a competitor to Ontolica

·         What is MS's direction with SharePoint Search, Search Server, Search Server Express, etc. Gail will look into and provide information back to the group.

 

 

 

 

Open discussion topics

·         Search? What are people dong with Search??

·   Member companies are ramping up on Search

·   Training is needed to get started

·   Want advertisement component of search results

·   Really banking on Search being the glue that holds everything together

·   Most casual Users do not user Advanced Search

·   Ontolica caters to that sector

·   Still have to set up symonyms and relevance parameters

·   It is industry opinion that after about 500 users, it is common to have a FTE assigned to maintian the Search implementation

·   Using MS's Team Test to load up the development environment from production

·   MS's Solution Accelerator…..

·   SharePoint farm topology discussion…DR designed into the topology.

·   Alternate DR approach - separate the web front ends, cluster SQL servers over WAN...

·   Extranet Collaboration - Webapp for each partner

·   RSS Viewer webpart

·   Kerbos and the single sign on thing!