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	June 13, 2006 Microsoft Is A Strong Performer In Enterprise Search Platforms The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2006 by Matthew Brown with Connie Moore, Lucy Fossner

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Executive Summary

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 search compares poorly in all categories against other enterprise search products. The current offering lacks even basic search capabilities like spelling correction, white-bar Boolean commands, and word-root stemming for expanding queries. As a result, most companies' employees either don't bother to use SharePoint search or rely on third-party search engines for searching SharePoint content. Indeed, Microsoft itself makes extensive use of independent products from Coveo Solutions, Mondosoft, ISYS Search Software, and others to extend SharePoint capabilities. But the next wave of enhancements shows real promise. Microsoft will standardize on a common search architecture across all of its products, including SharePoint Server 2007, Office Tools, and Outlook, in the fall of 2006 and will embed a search index within the Vista operating system. We'll likely see some real improvements to search within Microsoft applications relative to previous versions, but, in the near term, plan to augment SharePoint Portal 2003 with a third-party product to improve search quality.

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