Information Management Best Practices: The Search For Search – Solving Users’ “Finding” Problems

Search leads the ranks of technologies that information managers are deploying or planning in 2006. In this Briefing, Outsell examines how

- or if

- federated search can serve up the right information at the right time, and provides best practices and actionable advice for defining the framework for the appropriate search tool. In this Briefing you will:

- Learn about the pitfalls of federated search and how to fit it into the larger picture

- Find out how savvy information managers intend to implement search

- Discover 'next wave' best practices and strategies, such as partnering with IT, to get beyond search and provide users with answers when and where they need them

- Get a checklist and guidance for kicking off your search projectIn researching this Briefing, Outsell interviewed eight information managers in charge of enterprise search and/or library-portal search engines. Outsell augmented these interviews with our documented best practices, user data, and information management benchmarks.