Overview

Corporate searchers encounter many obstacles in their existing search process. Issues like poor relevancy of supplied search results, the inability to re-use the search process, and search sources which are not comprehensive, simultaneously compete to diminish search results. These issues result in poorer quality of decision making, creating a drain on resources which ultimately lessen ROI, especially in departments which rely heavily on non-structured documents and data for their research.

Ant Leap’s Search Platform specializes in fostering a collaborative approach to search resulting in increased ROI, improved decision making, and more retained knowledge through:

• re-use of search efforts
• search processes sharing
• searcher control of context, and searcher controlled relevancy
• leveraged search results through building on previous work

Collaborative Search Platform

Pictured below is a logical implementation of the Ant Leap Corporate Collaboration & Consolidation Platform – providing:

• Connection to documents across multiple platforms in real time;
• Ability to share and collaborate on existing work;
• Consolidation of outputs for all retrieval sources including external search engines in a secured environment.
This search platform allows companies to reduce costs, retain knowledge, consolidate information feeds, and improve efficiency.

Build once – use many times
There is great value in enabling a corporate searcher to construct vertical search subjects on demand – capturing the various search sources they usually use for their searches and storing that information in one specific location. The user might then adds rules and save the search subject for repeat use. This would save valuable research time.

Share, Leverage and Document
Users who might build and author search subjects, may embody the search process into a stored search process, called a SearchLet, to share these subjects with the corporate community allowing for retention of knowledge as well as time saving. In addition, the wider business community may also benefit from using these Searchlets if the company so desires.

Colleagues may inherit a search subject and update and change it to a different search subject to be saved as another candidate search subject. The whole process is documented so decision makers may review the process for updates. This allows searchers to build upon the previous work of others and create Searchlets which function as mini vertical search engines. Searchers may define sources – intranet and internet – rules, and related keywords to perform vertical or specific subject searches and then share it with their peers.

Tools
The Ant Leap platform comes with simple to use tools which dramatically improve result relevancy. Our dashboard categorizes, clusters, scores, orders, and presents a highly relevant presentation of results in a way that reflects a user’s real-time, interactive, inputs. Some of Ant Leap’s retrieval analytics features which help users find relevant results faster are as follows:

• Dynamic Context Search – enables interactive adjustments to search context
• Searcher Controlled Relevancy – allows searchers to decide ranking criteria
• Embedded Automatic Categorization -tools dramatically reduce the time to isolate and locate relevant results
• Dynamic Clustering – frequencies and closeness of terms algorithms automatically re-calculate cluster points in response to interactive narrowing of search results
• Zoom-within Search – helps searchers quickly isolate relevant URL records for further review
• Save/Retrieve Search Results – to disk allows searchers to store work for later review or access

Combine Multiple Sources
Among the challenges of corporate IT departments today is the fragmented existence of search sources. They embody different intranet search engines, external search engines, subscription type sources, and legacy internal systems. The Ant Leap platform taps into these different sources of structured, semi-structured, and no-structured documents and retrieval systems and consolidates them in real time.

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