SharePoint Search

Provide Cognitive and AI-Powered Search through SharePoint

Though SharePoint “Out of the Box” (OOTB) can be effective as a standalone content and collaboration platform, you need a lot more if you are going to provide a new search experience through Cognitive Search. SharePoint includes a powerful search and discovery engine, but for many applications it is incomplete without BA Insight’s products. Our Software Portfolio makes SharePoint search intelligent by connecting machine learning, cognitive computing, and enterprise systems to help you power a new generation of intranets and cognitive search solutions.

We support SharePoint on-prem, SharePoint Online (part of Microsoft’s Office 365 suite), and Hybrid SharePoint.

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If your SharePoint is used as an intranet or portal, then it is probably heavily customized. Custom code causes ballooning complexity and costs and often produces underwhelming results. Systems integrators that have practices to customize SharePoint end up creating long-term dependencies that hamper your ability to upgrade or be responsive to your users.

We enhance SharePoint for better enterprise search:

BA Insight Multiplies the Benefits of SharePoint

The BAI Software Portfolio exploits the search index in SharePoint as well as the Metadata Management, User Profile, and BI services - and extends these with a comprehensive set of connectivity, text analytics, and user interaction capabilities. With our software, you can rapidly assemble and deploy intranets and portals that present information in ways users love - regardless of its structure or where it resides in your organization.

Use SharePoint Search and BA Insight to create powerful enterprise-wide Cognitive Search solutions.

BA Insight's products combine with SharePoint Search and SharePoint Online Search to create best-of-breed cognitive search. Our SmartHub provides a modern, responsive search UI, personalization, and cognitive search capabilities.

With SharePoint and BA Insight, you can provide a dedicated, cost-effective search service with powerful cognitive search features that power Intelligent Intranets and Intelligent Search Applications.

BA Insight products complement SharePoint OOTB features, eliminate the need for custom code, and help get the project done quicker.

White Paper: Improving Search FAST Using a Search-First

Benefits of SharePoint Search

  • Integrated with SharePoint and Office 365: search is pervasive throughout SharePoint, including deep integration with metadata and user profiles.  If most of your content is in SharePoint and/or Office 365, then this can be a cost effective and powerful approach.
  • Straightforward administration with familiar tools: your staff and/or contractors who are familiar with SharePoint can work directly with SharePoint search and BA Insight products without retooling.
  • Backed by Microsoft: including a large ongoing investment in top-tier search capabilities and a continuous stream of new innovations.
  • Managed Service (with Office 365): results in lower cost and less work – by eliminating the need to deal with servers, software updates, backups, etc.  If you are already using Office 365, consider using cloud hybrid search in Office 365.