Search expertise is hard to find. Depending upon the scope of your project, you may need a search professional for a few days or a team for a soup to nuts evaluation and implementation. Whatever your needs, we have a consulting engagement that fits with you. Our experiences search architects, engineers and developers can assist with projects large and small. While we specialize in small to mid sized companies, we have experience building a search solution for a portal with 40 million pages of faceted content demanding domain expertise. When you need experts with experience and confidence to evaluate what you need and implement a solution, we can help.
Search Evalution and Auditing
How is your current search solution working? Sluggish performance, irrelavant results, or worse, no results mean you have a problem with search. You need to know what the problem is before it can be repiared. We perform a full audit and evalution of your current solution and make recommendations for upgrades or tuning.
Selecting a search platform is a big decision. You may already have a solution in place that is ineffective and you need a change. But what’s not working, and why? Which search engine is best for my needs? We perform an audit and full evaluation of your current search architecture and report our recommendations for optimizing what you already have, and list attributes of alternative technologies like Solr, LucidWorks Enterprise, ElasticSearch, SearchBlox or other solutions. Our full evaluation includes:
- Audit of existing enterprise search solution and evaluation of available options for improvement.
- Report Recommendations and options
- Migration Plan for migration or improvement. At the end of the engagement, our software developer will provide a step by step plan on what needs to be done to migrate to a search solution that supports your business goals and needs.
Our audits are conducted by one of our senior software developers and takes place over a 3 day period. We will interviewing relevant staff members to gain valuable insights to pain points on performance. Our developer will access your back-end systems and review the following areas:
- Full systems review of systems environment, specifications, match that to system that they are currently running
- Discover known performance issues
- Review system logs
- Test live system
- Review resulting of testing, and make adjustments to current environment
- Examine best solution and match with current envirnoment if possible
- Make recommendations of action plan to transition to new solution
- Recommend any necessary hardware or software upgrades
Contact us for a free initial consultation on your project.
Implementations
Our software developers can assist you in implementing new technology to upgrade or replace your current search solution. We work with organizations of all sizes to create a search soultion that works especially for the organization's workflows and business rules. Whether your organization a small to mid sized business, a start up in need of robust technology, or a large organization in need of search for many terabytes of data--TNR has direct experience with each type of client. We can help with part or a full implementation of new search technology to bring your information technology to the highest possible level of performance.
