Search-based application: Difference between revisions

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Search based applications are fully packaged applications that:

 * Are built on a search backbone to enable sub-second access to information in multiple formats and from multiple sources

 * Are delivered as a unified work environment to support a specific task or workflow, for example: eDiscovery, financial services regulatory compliance, fraud detection, voice of the customer, sales prospecting, pharmaceutical research, anti-terrorism intelligence, or customer support.

 * Integrate all the tools that are commonly needed for that a specific task or workflow, including:

 * Multi-source information access

 * Authoring

 * Collaboration

 * Business process

 * Reporting and analysis

 * Alerting

 * Visualization

 * Provide pre-configured data integration with multiple repositories of information in multiple formats as appropriate for the application ___domain.

 * Integrate ___domain knowledge to support the particular task, including industry taxonomies and vocabularies, internal processes, workflow for the task, connectors to specialized collections of information, and decision heuristics typical of the field.

 * Provide a compelling user interface and interaction design that eliminates the need for users to “pogo stick” or continually jump from one application to another. This buffers the user from the complexity of operating separate applications and enables them to focus on getting work done.

 * Are quick to deploy, easy to customize or extend, and economical to administer

Source: Worldwide Search and Discovery 2009 Vendor Shares and Update on Market Trends, IDC #223926, July, 2010 by Susan Feldman and Hadley Reynolds.

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* ''' Enterprise Business Applications:''' For example, [[Customer Relationship Management]] (CRM), [[Enterprise Resource Planning]] (ERP), [[Supply Chain Management]] (SCM), Compliance & Discovery, and [[Business Intelligence]] (BI)

* ''' Web Applications:''' Typically, B2B, B2C and C2B applications that [[Mashup (digital)|mash-up]] data and functionality from diverse sources (databases, Web content, user-generated content, mapping data and functions, etc.)

The use of a search platform as the core infrastructure for software applications has been enabled largely by two search engine features: 1) Scalability 2) Ad hoc access to multiple heterogeneous sources from a single point of access.

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==References==

* Worldwide Search and Discovery 2009 Vendor Shares and Update on Market Trends, IDC #223926, July, 2010 by Susan Feldman and Hadley Reynolds.

* Butler Group [http://www.butlergroup.com/webinarIntroduction.asp?mcr=EXA190509&scr=EXA190509 Webinar on Search Based Applications] explaining SBA and how they work

* Presentation on [http://www.informationbuilders.com/support/developers/presentations/?109 Search Based Applications] by [[Information Builders]]

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* [[Business Intelligence 2.0]] (BI 2.0)

* [[Enterprise Search]]

* [[Search oriented architecture]]

* [[Software as a service]]

* [[Lucene]]