SurfRay delivers a new standard visual search for SharePoint with Ontolica Preview. Easy to install full document preview delivers greater findability and search productivity on Microsoft SharePoint.
SurfRay Copenhagen, DK and Santa Clara, USA – December 19, 2009. The search solution developer SurfRay, with offices in the USA, UK, The Netherlands and Denmark, delivers Ontolica Preview.
”Increasing search productivity is all about shortening knowledge worker distance between information need and discovery. Ontolica Preview is an easy way to massively improve findability in SharePoint 2007 and 2010” says SurfRay CEO Søren Pallesen.
Ontolica Preview extends the search functionality of SharePoint 2007 as is fully compatible with SharePoint 2010. Ontolica Preview can be deployed in a number of scenarios:
- Ontolica Preview with Ontolica Search on SharePoint 2007 seamlessly integrated into the Ontolica user and administration interface
- Ontolica Preview standalone on SharePoint 2007 as an extension to native SharePoint search or other third party search extensions and integrated into the SharePoint administration interface.
- Ontolica Preview with Ontolica Search on SharePoint 2010 seamlessly integrated into the Ontolica user and administration interface
- Ontolica Preview standalone on SharePoint 2010 as an extension to native SharePoint search or other third party search extensions and integrated into the SharePoint administration interface.
New functionality in Ontolica Preview includes:
- Actionable thumbnail preview. Provides thumbnails in search results with mouse over for a configurable larger size and click for full page preview.
- Full document graphical preview. Provides a preview pane in multiple screen layouts, with mouse over for larger size and click for full page preview.
- Browser preview. Full preview in browser without having to open and windows client application or having to load the original document.
- Hit highlighting. Highlighting of search key words in the preview.
- Navigation to best bets. Single click navigation to best bet page with the most search key words hits in the preview as well as navigation to a specific page in the preview.
- Preview page count. Indicate the number of pages in a document as part of the thumbnail preview to let users know the document size prior to downloading it or opening the full document preview.
- Supports over 500 document formats. Support for most known documents formats including Office 2007 and 2010 formats.
- Extensive and intuitive configurability. Full configurability in the administrative interface including of the size images, user interface configuration and performance optimization.
- Low infrastructure requirements. A unique combination of ultra compact indexing and real-time technologies.
- No client side installs. Support for thin client implementations with no client side installs beyond a standard internet browser.
- Easy installation. Highly packaged solution that installs in 5 minutes typically without any need for consulting.