Methodology for Success

How Did You Do That?

Before we can help your organization, we need to know and understand your current system and search environment.  An on-site assessment is the first step in our deployment methodology.  We talk to your people, we analyze your system, and we ask questions to thoroughly understand your business challenges.

• Evaluation of current state of system and existing configuration.
  
• Gap analysis of organizational objectives and current configuration.
  
• Recommendations and roadmap for any projected change, including a project and staffing plan.

Statement of Work

Next, we translate that information into a highly detailed project and staffing plan.  This Statement of Work specifies every facet of our engagement – development, installation and stabilization – and is used as a discussion tool between our client and us.  Each Statement of Work includes related case studies from the target industry.

Focused Implementation

Approval of the work statement triggers the implementation phase.  Implementation is carefully orchestrated, with Search Technologies working in concert with your company’s team of experts in these areas:

• Architecture and design
• User interface development
• Indexing pipeline development
• Search engine scaling
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Indexing and multicasting optimization
• Categorization and taxonomy development
  
• Problem solving
  
• Daily system operations

We provide expert resources for search-application development.  Internal training sessions and information exchanges ensure that each member of the group benefits from the experience of our experts and is ready to hit the ground running.  In addition, regularly scheduled update classes and other events are available to our customers.