FAST Search for SharePoint 和 SharePoint Server 2010 Search 的不同（1）

This document describes the feature differences between SharePoint Server 2010 search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. 

Customers should consider FAST Search for SharePoint if:

·         Search is strategic (need a search platform to grow with, across many applications)

·         SharePoint is strategic (want the best search available in SharePoint)

·         They have high-end search requirements (specific applications and features)

Between these two SKUs, there are:

·         differences in degree (X does something better than Y).  These will have capabilities listed for X and “same capabilities, plus..." for Y.

·         differences in kind (X does something Y doesn’t do at all).  These will have nothing listed for X, and capabilities listed for Y.

End-User Perspective

IT Pro Perspective

Developer Perspective

Application examples

Some scenarios can be handled by either product, though they are better with FAST Search for SharePoint.  Some search needs are only addressable with FAST Search for SharePoint.

There is a wide range of search applications, and a spectrum of what is possible with different degrees of customization.  The examples below are not a full list, of course, but are meant to give you a sense of what capabilities are typically important for this type of application.  Below the high-level table is a longer explanation of two applications.

Intranet search - can be served by either product, with differences in degree. 

·         SharePoint Server 2010 Search can handle the full scale and search needs of a typical intranet, provides broad, secure connectivity to structured and unstructured content sources, and offers a great user experience out-of-the-box.

·         FAST Search for SharePoint provides a better user experience, more flexibility for IT, and a strategic platform to grow on.  

A global enterprise looking to do intranet search will likely want FAST Search for SharePoint. 

·         User Context means different groups (different native language speakers, geographies, departments, etc) can get different, context-driven, search experiences and be fully satisfied while sharing a single system.

·         Advanced Content Processing means large volumes of content can be made  much more findable and explorable, by ensuring that content shares metadata (through property extraction), and surfacing this in deep refiners, through sorting, and in relevance ranking.

·         The visual, conversational UI provides a more intuitive, productive experience as well as happier users.

·         Search in a large global enterprise is likely to be strategic, and FAST Search for SharePoint is the platform for strategic growth.

Research portals - should be served by FAST Search for SharePoint. 

These are found in many functions (financial research,  market research, competitive research, product research, medical research, etc) - and are recognized because there are staff who search intensively for a large portion of their time…’search’ is a huge part of ‘research’. 

·         Visual UI provides both higher productivity in finding AND more ‘synergy’ when exploring information.

·         Deep refiners, sorting, and similarity search provide much quicker exploration across a large amount of content - which may be unfamiliar yet contain crucial nuggets of information.

·         Advanced Content processing means large volumes of content can be found much more easily, by ensuring that content shares metadata (through property extraction),and surfacing this in deep refiners, through sorting, and in relevance ranking.   It also adds structure to unstructured information….improving the user experience and findability.  Techniques such as taxonomies, classification, ontologies, etc are found often in research settings.

·         Custom Relevance ranking is usually crucial for research.  Tuning search for high recall (to be sure that you don’t miss anything) and supporting multiple ranking profiles that the end user can choose between are capabilities only found in FAST Search for SharePoint