How Enterprise Search Enhances your Business
So, Enterprise Search is something like a basic need for websites and portals. It indexes all types of data and performs searches on that data. All types of data whether it is structured or unstructured data, Enterprise Search will cover it all.
“According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), almost 80% of enterprise data will be unstructured by 2025.”
So, Enterprise Search prepares an index with all defined data of your database, files, text strings, and everything which you have defined for searching purpose. From that index, it is very easy to find the requested data or string for the user, and present them the requested search results from your database.
Any new-age Enterprise Search platforms have a lot of features that can process, index, and list your unstructured data with ease. These are the most important qualities to look for in any Enterprise Search software:
The most important feature to look for is Enterprise Search’s Indexing Capability. If it’s indexing capability is good then, your searches will be faster. So, more indexing capability means faster searches. Always look at this factor opting for any Enterprise Search.
- Advanced Content Analytics
Advanced Content Analytics processes data from Natural Language through Natural language processing. So, if you want to extract any data from natural language, then advanced content analytics will help you and extract accurate information from it.
- Cognitive, Information Analysis Capacity
Cognitive and Information Analysis capacity includes searching for the data that are not close to search terms. Even if you search “DC masked superhero” the results will be “Batman”, “The Flash”, etc. as search results. Even though Batman and The Flash do not match with the string “DC masked superheroes”, it will fetch results that users want.
- Flexibility and Customization
Now, when choosing an Enterprise Search Engine, always look for its flexibility and customization. If you can customize it in your way or not. If you are developing a tailor-made software, then the Enterprise Search should be customizable and the developer should be able to customize it the way he/she wants.
This is another must-have feature of any Enterprise Search software. To serve better search results, the engine should be able to perform text mining from various defined sources and collect the necessary data when requested. Text mining includes Data classification, semantic similarity, named entity recognition, entity extraction, and a lot of other such functions.
So, these are some basic qualities that a standard Enterprise Search Engine should have. It will perform faster and accurate searches when it has all the qualities and features a standard Enterprise Search engine should have.
But, looking at the current scenario, there are lots of Enterprise Search Engines growing out in the market and it is hard to choose the right one. There are two search engines that are most famous which are Elasticsearch and Apache Solr. But, the battle of Elasticsearch vs. Solr is quite tough and you should pick one from them wisely.