In Comperio we are proud of our history as an advanced solution provider of FAST ESP, and as the world’s largest reseller of FAST ESP software. Comperio have been a partner and solution provider in FAST ESP since 2004, from the version titled FAST Data Search (FDS) 4.0 up to and including the current version [...]
Vi i Comperio er stolte av vår historikk som avansert løsningsleverandør på FAST ESP, og som verdens største reseller av FAST ESP software. Comperio har vært partner og løsningsleverandør på FAST ESP siden 2004, fra versjonen med navn FAST Data Search (FDS) 4.0 opp til og med dagens versjon FAST ESP 5.3, eller FSIA/FSIS (Fast [...]
For even the most well-planned enterprise search projects, there is still going to be a variable factor – that variable is people, or end users. Even those with the sharpest minds and walls full of certificates and diplomas are prone to making mistakes when it comes to interfacing with technology. Comperio’s “Sprint Zero” approach can uncover some of [...]
I found this interview (article from Nov. 2011) with the Director of Microsoft’s Enterprise Search Group, Bjørn Olstad on http://www.tu.no. Below is an English summary of the main points, along with some elbaorations. Dr. Olstad speaks on how Norway is a hotbed for search technology development and this search ecosystem has it’s source at NTNU in [...]
OK. I know you want it. Quick fixes to make your search results look better. These five points will not give you a perfect or necessarily user friendly search results page … but maybe it will be a bit better than before. 1. Enlarge your search box! Why are you hiding it ? Screenshot: TMZ.com [...]
At a party, it’s not rare to get to a point in the conversation where you are unsure of the facts. We can either sit and ponder for hours, or we can pick up the smartphone and find the answer. That’s how it should work at the workplace as well. Lately, there have been some [...]
Technology has no inherent business value. Technology doesn’t provide improved findabiliy, decision-making or knowledge management by itself. Technology just provides features that help users perform tasks, thereby reaching their goals. Only when user goals and business goals align, can you hope to create business value. Without people, there is no purpose – and without purpose, [...]
Let’s face it. Every developer has at some point produced something that was just right. Something we really put our heart and soul into. An extremely useful tool, a beautiful and useful web site, the most awesome piece of documentation ever written. But after delivery, it turned out that no one used it. We’ve all [...]
Property extraction (previously called entity extraction in FAST ESP) is a process that extracts information from the visible textual content of an item and stores that information as additional crawled properties for the document. In this blog post I will show how this can be automated in any given FAST Search for SharePoint installation. But [...]
(Part 1: The Hackish Way) In Part 1 I used two Search Core Results Web Parts and a bit of jQuery magic to achive the look of blended search results This time we will create our own CoreResultsWebPart and inject the blended results into the result xml before it is transformed into html. In addition [...]
