Search-based application

Pre-conditions

• Are built on a search backbone to enable sub-second access to information in multiple formats and from multiple sources
• Are delivered as a unified work environment to support a specific task or workflow, for example: eDiscovery, financial services regulatory compliance, fraud detection, voice of the customer, sales prospecting, pharmaceutical research, anti-terrorism intelligence, or customer support.
• Integrate all the tools that are commonly needed for that specific task or workflow, including:
• * Multi-source information access
• * Authoring
• * Collaboration
• * Business process
• * Reporting and analysis
• * Alerting
• * Visualization
• Provide pre-configured data integration with multiple repositories of information in multiple formats as appropriate for the application domain.
• Integrate domain knowledge to support the particular task, including industry taxonomies and vocabularies, internal processes, workflow for the task, connectors to specialized collections of information, and decision heuristics typical of the field.
• Provide a compelling user interface and interaction design that eliminates the need for users to “pogo stick” or continually jump from one application to another. This buffers the user from the complexity of operating separate applications and enables them to focus on getting work done.
• Are quick to deploy, easy to customize or extend, and economical to administer

  Practical uses

• Enterprise Business Applications: For example, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Compliance & Discovery, and Business Intelligence
• Web Applications: Typically, business to business, business to consumer, and consumer to business applications that mash-up data and functionality from diverse sources