Microsoft Enterprise Search Product Disclosures
At FASTForward 09, Microsoft announced its new line of up of Enterprise Search products. This Enterprise Search Roadmap was the key announcement for FAST and Microsoft customers and partners in attendance on February 10th, 2009 at FASTforward ’09 in Las Vegas.
The graphic above reflects what Microsoft is doing with the FAST product set. In addition to this, we still have Search included in the upcoming release of Sharepoint 14, and there is some enhancements to the search functionality that you will be happy to see..
The first key message
With FS14, Microsoft is committed to Internet Business and Business Productivity for Enterprise Search. FS14 combines the best-in-class search capabilities of FAST ESP with the simplicity and low TCO of SharePoint thus offering the best of both worlds; providing a compelling out-of-the-box search experience and also delivering a high-end search platform that can be used to build advanced search applications.
Using FS14, customers can take advantage of their SharePoint investment to do three things.
Go beyond the search box to create conversational search experiences that allow users to refine queries.
Make the most of their content by using a content pipeline to make information more valuable.
Tackle challenging search requirements like extreme scale, advanced linguistics, and sophisticated relevance tuning.
The next message
Microsoft is changing the game in Enterprise Search. Enterprise search customers have historically been forced to choose between powerful, high-end search platforms or more mainstream, out-of the-box infrastructure solutions. The new product line-up from Microsoft continues to offer these traditional options, but also gives customers a new choice: an infrastructure solution with integrated high-end capabilities.
Finally-for customers interested in FS14, Microsoft is offering a special promotion between now and product availability
ESP for SharePoint is an ESP-based product that allows qualifying customers to buy high-end search capabilities at favorable terms today while enjoying a defined licensing path to FS14 at availability. To qualify, customers must own the SharePoint Enterprise Client Access License (CAL).
You can find additional information about the disclosure and upcoming products can be found at www.quickstartmicrosoftsearch.com
