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Information Access and Search

In order to make an intelligent decisions, employees need to find the right information. The same technologies that are used to search and explore the Internet can be applied to your company's Information Assets; Doing so encourages the re-use of information assets across multiple business units while preserving the security and integrity of these assets. The Innovent Solutions Information Access practice designs and builds solutions that enable users to find the information they need when they need it.

 

Portals

Information portals enable employees, partners and customers to have rich, personalized access to information in a unified fashion. Innovent Solutions has a great deal of experience extending business intelligence platforms to provide dashboards, web parts, scorecards and key performance indicators. Doing so enables employees to create live interactive information portals that can be assembled to display business-critical information from disparate sources, using common business intelligence platform capabilities. These technology-based services can be provided through development of reportlets and web services components using the services provided by business intelligence tools such as Business Objects, Actuate, BIRT and Liferay, among others.

 

Enterpise Search, Commerce Search and Site Search

Although in many cases used as a tactical solution, search engine applications have rapidly become a key component of the information management landscape. Further, with Search being an increasing part of everything we do on the web, many companies are realizing that Enterprise Search can be used as the primary path to information in the enterprise. As such, Enterprise Search can be a key enabler of Information Access and should no longer be viewed as a stand-alone application.


Our clients, which represent companies across the business spectrum, are using search technology to access information from intranet and extranet sites, document repositories, business applications and business intelligence databases. Doing so helps to drive efficiency and increase productivity by making it as easy for users to find highly relevant information quickly and reliably.

 

Whether your website is an eCommerce site or your Corporate face to the Web, many web site visitors use search to find products, services, support and knowledge base information. Providing search functionality enables you to convert visitors into customers by helping them find exactly what they're looking for. Additionally, good search enables companies to retain existing customers by providing them intuitive access to highly relevant information about new products or to get support on products already purchased.

 

Our Search services include:

  • Search Strategy
  • Architecture and planning
  • System Design, Development and Integration
  • System Implementation
  • Training and Mentoring