In the year 2008, Microsoft acquired a technology company called Fast Search for a whopping US$ 1.3 billion. With this acquisition, Microsoft capitalized on the reputation Fast Search had built for itself in the field of enterprise search and tightened its grip on the workspace collaboration ecosystem by introducing the Fast Search feature in SharePoint 2013.
Save Time Using SharePoint 2013 Search Capabilities
While earlier versions of SharePoint facilitated content search via content web query, it had its limitation when the searches were out of Site collections. The latest addition in SharePoint 2013 is the Content Search functionality that has been devised to fortify its existing Web Content Management (WCM) capability enabling users to get search results in a single platform.
Now users can also search content outside the SharePoint environment, provided the content was indexed in the search result. This enhanced capability can make users more productive by getting fast and precise search results.
Precise and Centralized Search Results
By leveraging Fast Search content capabilities and fusing it with SharePoint's native search features, Microsoft SharePoint 2013 now renders a centralized dynamic interface. These interfaces are easy to navigate and have a more appealing social user interface making User Experience more productive and engaging.
Query suggestions in these features make it much easier to use SharePoint search functionality. These query suggestions offer smart guessing and intuitive assistance that saves time by rendering right search results and assists in preventing typos. If enterprises wish to extend search capabilities to anonymous users, SharePoint 2013 allows integration with Mavention Query Suggestions for public facing SharePoint websites.
How continuous crawling helps with updating results and saving time
In order to keep the content sources and search index fresh, SharePoint 2013 facilitates continuous and automatic crawling which eliminate the need to schedule incremental crawls and authentication by allowing administrators to configure crawl schedules. SharePoint 2013 also enables users to remove items from the search index by using crawl logs.
SharePoint 2013 Integration with Office Web Apps
SharePoint 2013 offers smart documents and web pages’ previews and eliminates the redundant task of surfing through files to find the correct one. SharePoint 2013 smart document viewing enables users to get a preview of any document or file by simply resting the cursor on them. This saves a lot of time and helps users become more productive.
SharePoint 2013 allows smart integration with the Office Web Apps both for viewing and editing office content and search previews of documents. Users can choose a document from SharePoint 2013 library or SkyDrive, and edit documents with all Microsoft office functionality or on supported mobile applications. Office web apps, when integrated with SharePoint 2013, render hosts of other features like co-authoring, change tracking, quick preview and more.
When it comes to the mobile viewing experience SharePoint 2013 enables mobile users to attend PowerPoint presentation broadcast via their mobile devices with built in features like broadcast status. Users can now perform Office Excel and Word functions directly via their hand help devices using In Mobile Excel & In Mobile Word viewer.
With these enhanced search capabilities, SharePoint 2013 can help enterprises with best in class and high end search practices and help their workforce become more productive.
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Editor's Note: To read more of the functionality that SharePoint 2013 offers, read Andrew Bishop's SharePoint 2013: 7 Features Users are Going to Love
About the Author
Himanshu Sharma handles Marketing Communications at Trigent. His specific interest areas are collaboration tools, CRM, web analytics and search engine optimization. He helps clients with content management and collaboration solutions based on SharePoint technology. His co-author Subin Babu is a Business Analyst and manages several SharePoint and Business Intelligence projects and practice initiatives at Trigent.
Source : cmswire[dot]com
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