Ontolica Search makes it easier to find information on SharePoint. And it lets adopt and configure your search user interface in an easy admin interface to fit your business. Even with a individual search user interface for different departments. The product is easily-deployed as easy-to-use web-parts, delivered within the SharePoint security and permissions structure. By extending the SharePoint platform, Ontolica provides natural synergies with SharePoint, rather than demanding additional infrastructure.
Key Features (click to enlarge)
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Search Suggestions |
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Heirarchical Refiners |
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Ontolica is highly customizable, allowing for almost any conceivable in-place configuration to be done directly from the administration interface. Want to add new metadata? Need to change how a specific search center handles filtering, or sorting? Need to give your finance department customized filters to let them quickly find specific documents? Ontolica allows you to do all of this and more, in place and without risk. Simply put, Ontolica lets you take control of your search needs and get what you need out of SharePoint quickly, easily and cost-effectively.
Key Features in Detail
Related Queries, Searches and Search Tags
Ontolica continuously tracks and monitors what other users are looking for. These are used to suggest related queries in real time while users type their search key words. By filtering out search terms that are not relevant for the current users SharePoint or Active Directory department, Site or personal user history, the suggestions are more relevant than ever, and provide concrete benefits while reducing confusion and noise.
Heirarchical Refiners
This feature adds extends the basic SharePoint refiners with incredibly powerful Ontolica Facetted Search refiners that allow users to explore their metadata and site hierarchies, and see how many results can be expected within each category. With Heirarchical Refiners, users can drill down more effectively into their meta data and managed properties than ever before, with the ability to display any combination of standard and custom properties.
Result Navigation, Quick Filters and Grouping
While metadata refiners allow users to explore results based on the dynamic categories within a specific result-set, Ontolica offers much more than that. Ontolica Search deploys powerful Quick Filter technology that allows users to section their results based on content type, combinations or metadata and properties, or even logical filters. Need to give your users the ability to only view documents that are tagged in a specific way, by a specific author, but not located in an archive site? An Ontolica quick filter makes this unbelievably simple.
Seamless Metadata Support
Modern enterprises recognize the need to support both formalized taxonomies as well as emergent term sets and folksonomies. SharePoint provides unmatched capabilities to define properties, and Ontolica Search allows you to fully deploy these, and given users the ability to navigate and explore any metadata in any list or attached to any document, or use the BCS to integrate to metadata from other parts of your enterprise infrastructure.
“Search as You Type”
Ontolica exposes the ability to do real time searches with complex query terms and wildcards from anywhere in SharePoint. By combing local results with the ability to redirect the search outward into external repositories and the internet, Ontolica real-time search gets users closer than ever to their results.
Actions on Results
Ontolica Search allows you to build custom actions into results, and allow end users to take immediate action on the search results. This seamless integration with search allows any business process to start from within the context of any search, truly accelerating how knowledge workers can deal with their tasks and resulting in massive improvements in synergies.
Unmatched Customization
Every Ontolica functionality is fully configurable on the web-part level, and on the site level. From changing specific settings like which metadata properties should be available to refiners, or how Quick Filters should perform, all the way to massive changes to look and feel and business layer logic, Ontolica delivers a platform that can be adapted to meet the needs of any organization.
Wildcard (specifically relevant on SharePoint 2007)
Ontolica allows users to use wildcard operators to find names and complex words without having to enter the entire term. This functionality can be enabled as default, so that Ontolica will always match user search terms to find other words that might match what they are searching for.
Boolean search (specifically relevant on SharePoint 2007)
Search using all the familiar Boolean operators such as AND, OR, NOT and NEAR and lets users easily build advanced search queries to narrow down search results set
Advanced People Search (specifically relevant on SharePoint 2007)
Naturally, all of Ontolica features in the document search center carry into people search. Search refiners allow users to drill into results based on job titles, recommended skills, or any other custom metadata that they may have. To assist with the common occurrence of misspelled names, query suggestions for alternative spellings of names are presented to guide the users’ search. Ontolica Search also extends the standard relevance sorting of Microsoft SharePoint with other types of sorting patterns, such as last name or first name. In addition, Ontolica introduces an advanced people search predefined A-Z searches
