Product Differentiation
End user perspective - 300 level table
“Go Beyond the Search Box”
| SharePoint Server 2010
* = same feature in both SKUs, but functions somewhat differently | FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
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End User
| Great OOB user experience
including excellent relevance, refiners, and unique social search capabilities | Most powerful user experience
enhanced through visual, contextual, and conversational capabilities |
One-stop search center to find answers fast
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· Best-in-class relevance ranking
| Same Capabilities plus:
· Broader, Better language support · Broader query syntax
· Broader language support (84 languages) · Configurable Query Transformations
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Linguistics
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Linguistics · 36 languages detected · Improved ranking of documents in multilingual collections
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Linguistics · 84 languages detected See detail list for Languages Identified
· Improved Recall with Lemmatization · Improved Recall with Lemmatization
· Better Spellchecking o Language specific o OOTB spellchecking dictionary (reasonable spellcheck suggestions even if not much content is available) o Spellchecking customizable via inclusion and exclusion lists
· Phrase search works even with stop words in the phrase
· improved Recall with Lemmatization o document side expansion independent of query language o also works with phrase search o document side reduction (for very complex morphologies) o Only nouns and adjectives are expanded (higher precision) o Spelling variants included for German (spelling reform) and English (BE, AE)
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Query Syntax |
· New query syntax: Boolean, pre-fix wildcard, improved operators · Regular expressions, case sensitive support, content source prioritization
· Modern query syntax: Parenthesis, parametric search, text and metadata terms · Advanced search page | Same Capabilities, plus: · Full wildcard (text*, *text, te?t, etc.). · Proximity Operators (near, ordered near) · Text/numeric expressions (including numeric comparison and range queries) · Rank operators in query language (XRANK)
FQL (FAST Query Language) See Developer table
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Refinement to explore information quickly
| · Metadata and taxonomy based shallow refiners * · Related Searches · “View in browser” link
| Same Capabilities, plus:
· Deep refiners with counts over entire result set · Similarity search · Sorting on any property
•Refiners based on explicit or implicit (via content processing) metadata · Multi-level sorting · Field collapsing · Extensible duplicate detection
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People and Expertise Search | Connect with People and Expertise
· “Vanity search” (search for yourself) | Same Capabilities |
Search gets better with use
Social behavior drives search quality
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· Social definitions mined from indexed content (automatic definitions)
(People search only)
· “Vanity search” (search for yourself) encourages you to fill out your profile | Same Capabilities, plus:
• Click-through (Query Authority) weighted as part of rank profile |
Visual cues for rapid recognition of information |
| · Thumbnails & Scrolling Previews · Visual Best Bets
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Contextual to meet the needs of diverse groups |
| · User context from user profile · Multiple relevance profiles
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IT Professional perspective - 300 level table
“Eliminate Compromise”
| SharePoint Server 2010
* = same feature in both SKUs, but functions somewhat differently | FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
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IT Pro
Eliminate Compromise |
| High-end capabilities and easy delivery and manageability |
Industrial Strength Scale-out and Performance
| · Scale-out in 3 dimensions · Full fault tolerance · Native 64 bit · Hyper-V support · Scale to 100M documents
· Speedy results at nearly any scale
| Same Capabilities, plus: · Extreme scale-out
· Row/Column architecture for backend · Additional service-level configuration flexibility
· Greater capability to share one large search farm across many search applications (“search as a platform”) - due to scaling, user context, etc.
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Easy deployment | · Wizard - driven installation · Consolidated search dashboard
· Prereq checker · Wizard-based install · Configuration and deployment guidance “Recipes”
| Same Capabilities, plus: · Multinode installer
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Enterprise-class manageability | • Powershell support • SCOM support • Full search reporting
• SCOM monitoring and alerting * • Administrative Web parts
• Search dashboard • Health monitoring*
• 118 SharePoint Search cmdlets • Search Service Applications (SSA) and Search Service Proxy
• Unlock advanced/custom configurations • Verbose Query Monitoring • Import-/Export-Topology • pre-created DB configuration
| Same Capabilities, plus: • Additional PowerShell cmdlets
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Search Management | Search reports + extensibility
Detail: report list Detail: search analytics
· Easy administration of keywords & phrases · Easy configuration of UI web parts · Site admins can handle search administration, under IT’s control · Control over Best Bets | Same Capabilities, plus:
• More keyword management options; visual best bets, site promotion/demotion, document promotion/demotion |
Connectors | · Full set of connectors OOB · Easy to add new sources via BDC · Strong security
· SharePoint · File System · Web Crawler · BDC · People Profiles · Exchange (Public Folders) · Documentum · Lotus Notes *
Doc types (~10)
Detail: doc types
Security Trimming * Claims Auth
Crawl rules regular expression UI | Same Capabilities, plus
· Enterprise Web Crawler
· JDBC (database) crawler
Over 400 doc types (Stellant)
Detail: doc types
SAM *
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Advanced Content Processing |
| · Content Processing pipeline · Metadata Extraction
· Pipeline Extensibility See developer table
Metadata (Property) Extraction · OOB: people, location, companies, email, date/time · Custom: any list (e.g. product names, project names, departments, ….. )
Default pipeline stages · Format Conversion (iFilters, OutSideIn ) · Language detection and encoding · Lemmatizer (Linguistics normalization ) · Tokenizer (Word breaking ) · Property Extraction · DateTimeNormalizer (Date normalization) · Vectorizer (Create document vector for similarity searching) · WebAnalyzer (Anchor text and link cardinality analysis ) · PropertiesMapper (Map to crawled properties) · PropertiesReporter (Report detected properties)
Optional stages: · XML Properties mapper · Offensive Content Filter · Verbatim extractor (custom property extractors) · Field Collapsing
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Easy to configure high-end user experience |
| · Easy setup of User Context (from user profiles) · Control Visual Best Bets, Promotion/Demotion · Give end users control over sorting, ranking, navigation
•Easy setup of User Context from User profiles •Control Visual Best Bets, Promotion/Demotion •Give end users control over sorting, ranking, navigation
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Developer perspective - 300 level table
“Do more with search”
| SharePoint Server 2010
| FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
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Customize the OOB user experience using Web Parts | • Public Web Parts | Same Capabilities, based on the most powerful user experience
Extensions to shared Web Parts: · CoreResults WebPart o Enable/Disable Find Similar o Enable/Disable Document Preview o Options for Zero Result Queries o Enable/Disable Spellcheck o Set Spellcheck language · Search Action WebPart o Configure Display of sortable fields/rank profiles
Capabilities that
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Leverage configurability to write less code | • Admin OM/powershell
| Same capabilities, including wider set of configuration |
Extend connectivity using the BDC and Federation | • New connector framework • Integrated with BCS
OpenSearch federation
Write-back (BCS)
| Same Capabilities, plus configuration and use of:
• Enterprise Web Crawler • JDBC connector |
Combine search with other SharePoint capabilities | • Integrate search with BI, Workflow, Social, & Collaboration | Same Capabilities, applying high-end search capabilities |
Use familiar tools built for developer productivity | Advances in level of access, tooling, and developer experience
• BDC tooling built into SPD • Application tooling in VS2010
• Sandboxed deployment • Run on client OS for development • VS2010 advances (tester role, project view, multicore, etc)
| Same Capabilities |
Leverage Advanced Content Processing |
| · Add custom property extractors · Configurable content processing · Content processing pipeline extension
See IT pro table for custom property extractors and content processing configuration.
Pipeline extensibility API: · Managed code called prior to Mapper stage · Can call to web services, 3rd party code, etc. · Examples: taxonomy/classification, sentiment analysis, multimedia processing,…
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Customize relevance |
| · Include external data in relevance · Build multiple relevance profiles
Additional capabilities for custom rank models · Anchor Authority · Query Authority (click-through) · Freshness · Quality (based on value on specific managed properties) - apply external information to ranking
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Use advanced query capabilities to create powerful applications |
| · Leverage FQL to create geosearch, user-selected influencers, and much more
FQL (FAST Query Language) · Extensive relevance control per query (Xrank) · Multilevel sorting and formula sorting (sortformula) · Geosearch (using sortformula) · Near () and symbolic searching
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Tool support | Advances in level of access, tooling, and developer experience · Common Dev platform · Tool support (SPD) · Tool support (VS2010) · Developer environment
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