Planning for Enterprise Search

The following are some general guidelines that can help your organization prepare for a successful Magnify deployment.

Search versus Report.

• What do you want to search?
• How do you want the results to be presented?
• What details do you want to see?

Content Types.

• How is the information organized?
• What are the common attributes across your data?
• Are there relationships among the data?

Architecture.

• What information is searchable?
• What information will be used for reporting?
• How is information aggregated and filtered?

Transforming Data into Search Content.

Magnify can search on any structured or unstructured data that contains strings or numbers. Fields and file properties (state, type, and keywords) are designated as attributes of search content to be later used for sorting, filtering, and navigation.

Security.

Magnify provides security features to restrict access to specific pieces of data. When choosing a security model for your application, several factors will determine how to set up security when retrieving search results, such as integration with existing security infrastructure, who is authorized to access the search application, and what information each type of user will be able to access.