Product Differentiation - 200 level tables
End user perspective - 200 level table
| SharePoint Server 2010
| FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint |
| Great out-of-box search experience | Most powerful search experience |
One-stop search center to find answers fast | • Excellent OOB relevance • Federated results • PC, phone, or browser access | Same capabilities, plus: • Broader, better language support • Broader query syntax |
Refinement to explore information quickly | • Metadata based shallow refiners • Related searches • View in Browser | Same capabilities, plus: • Deep refiners with counts • Similarity search • Sorting on any property |
Social search to connect with people and expertise | • Phonetic & nickname matching • Relevance and refiners • Integrated presence | Same capabilities |
Search gets better with use | • Click-through drives relevance • Colleague & Expertise suggestions • Query suggestions | Same capabilities |
Visual cues for rapid recognition of information |
| • Thumbnails & Scrolling Previews • Visual Best Bets |
Contextual to meet the needs of diverse groups |
| • User context from user profile • Multiple relevance profiles |
IT Professional perspective - 200 level table
| SharePoint Server 2010
| FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint |
| Enterprise class search system integrated with SharePoint | Highly capable and easy to manage |
Industrial Strength Scale-out and Performance
| • Enterprise Scale-out (to 100M docs) • Full Fault Tolerance • Native 64 bit; Hyper-V support | Same capabilities, plus: · Extreme scale-out
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Easy deployment
| • Wizard - driven installation • Consolidated search dashboard | Same Capabilities |
Enterprise-class manageability | • PowerShell support • SCOM support • Full search reporting | Same Capabilities |
Secure, broad connectivity
| • Full set of connectors OOB • Easy to add new sources via BDC • Strong security | Same Capabilities |
Advanced Content Processing OOB
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| · Content Processing pipeline · Metadata Extraction
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Easy to configure high-end user experiences |
| · Easy setup of User Context, Visual Best Bets, Promotion · Give end users control over sorting, ranking, navigation
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Developer perspective - 200 level table
| SharePoint Server 2010
| FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint |
| Open and flexible search platform | The power to tackle the most challenging search requirements |
Customize the OOB user experience using Web Parts | • Public Web Parts | Same Capabilities, based on the Most powerful user experience |
Extend connectivity using the BDC and Federation | • New connector framework • Integrated with BCS | Same Capabilities |
Combine search with other SharePoint capabilities | • Integrate search with BI, Workflow, Social, & Collaboration | Same Capabilities, applying high-end search capabilities |
Use familiar tools built for developer productivity | • BDC tooling built into SPD • Application tooling in VS2010 | Same Capabilities |
Leverage Advanced Content Processing |
| · Add custom property extractors · Extend content processing |
Customize relevance |
| · Include external data in relevance · Build multiple relevance profiles · Extend user context |
Use advanced query capabilities to create powerful applications |
| · Leverage FQL to create geosearch, user-selected influencers, and much more |