Using Search to Create a Unified View of Information - The Roadmap to Creating Search Based Applications

Search. We all know it. A search box, a search button, and 10 blue links...right?

Wrong.

Today, enterprise search technologies possess the unique ability to integrate, relate, enrich, and surface unstructured content from multiple sources and data streams across an enterprise...something that middleware, service oriented architectures, and other methods have tried and failed to do.

In this session, we will discuss how to leverage search to securely unify, organize, and classify data from across all of your various enterprise systems and LOB applications, and present/visualize it, ending the days of information silos. 

We have all heard about and probably implemented "data driven sites". The next wave in enterprise search is using search to drive interactive sites: Search Based Applications (SBA's).  We will discuss how to rapidly build a SBA, and review how the "unified view" of information SBA's provide, can transform the way people do business.

Speaker Information
Michael Himelstein, Director of Search Consulting for BA Insight has almost 10 years of practical experience developing, architecting search based applications.  Mike has advised hundreds of the largest companies in the world and worked directly as a trusted advisor and architect for major finance, media and health care organizations helping them to shape their strategy around unified information access. A proven leader in search technologies, he has worked with organizations during the full life cycle from initial introductions to search based technologies to final deployment and user acceptance.

At BA Insight, Mike helps organizations understand the power that search has to unify information in ways other integration technologies have been unsuccessful with in the past. Prior to joining BA Insight, Mike was the Technology Solutions Manager in the Enterprise Search Group at Microsoft.  Mike came to Microsoft through the acquisition of FAST where he was the Technology Solutions Manager for the NY Metro area since 2004.