Mint and Microsoft South Africa will explore the world of enterprise search at an event to be held on 30 May at Microsoft Corporate Hill in Bryanston.
Search enables users to go beyond documents and across repositories to unlock information, find people, and locate expertise in the organisation.
This event will explore how these outcomes can be achieved. Grant Hodgkinson, MD of Mint, says the event is targeting high-level businesses and technical decision-makers at the mid to top end of the market.
"Enterprise search is an elusive term," says Hodgkinson. "Our aim is to explain what it means and to show people how they can increase productivity and reduce information overload by providing employees, partners and customers with the ability to find relevant content in a wide range of repositories and formats."
Employees generally spend a vast amount of time searching for content and recreating content that already exists, he says. "Enterprise search solutions deliver the ability to search content from a number of different content stores, and present them through a common user interface. Users are able to find information more easily in the organisation, and therefore become more productive."
Hodgkinson notes that it is important for the South African market to understand what search technology means at enterprise level. "People tend to associate search with Google, but the needs inside the enterprise are very different. We are helping our customers to understand the nature and extent of search, and to ensure that all their repositories of knowledge and content are exposed to search, so that users can find exactly what they are looking for quickly and efficiently."
Mint is recognised worldwide for its capabilities in the search space. In 2006, the company won the Microsoft Regional Winning Customer Award in Enterprise Search for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region for expertly developing a solution for Sappi that exemplified the benefit of working on the Microsoft platform.
"Technology alone cannot solve search problems, but the services we provide around Microsoft SharePoint Server help our customers to understand the nature and extent of their information and how they can best access it. Our role is to analyse customer needs and to expose their repositories to search in the most efficient way possible."
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