Media and Publishing
Web publishers bleed traffic and money to web search engines, but publishers now have the ability to stop the traffic loss by offering a search portal that combines publishers' content with the best of the Internet's information on a specific subject area.
Government
The government publishes an incredible amount of information. The new problem is making it is easy for people to find it. Search portals allows the public to easily find government information even if the data is published somewhere else.
In the intelligence community, analysts spend time typing the same query into different systems. Search portals empower analysts to conduct one query over their different information repositories.
Life Sciences
Life Sciences and health care have a daunting challenge of providing a vast amount of information to a wide variety of users. Doctors, patients, and businesses all have unique demands for health care information. Doctors even have different vocabularies from patients.
Search portals place all the information at the hands of the users and have the flexibility to create a unique experience based on the users. It is important to create a different experience for doctors versus consumers. While the information may be the same , the presentation and navigation differs greatly, and overall satisfaction will improve among your user base.
Manufacturing
Manufacturers rely on information for their business. They have a big challenge in providing their constituency of engineers, business partners and customers with access to the information they seek. Customer, engineers, procurement agents, and partners all have unique needs that must be addressed by the search portal.
Search portals must be able to display results from ERP, PLM, PIM, and CMS systems but still be easy to use. Customized search portals let customers find product information online, give engineers their data, and lets the knowledge worker find information quickly from across the organization.
Finance
Financial services firms have a wide variety of information sources including high priced subscription content. This means that staff, clients, and agents have to use multiple systems to find information. Search portals provide universal access to the most relevant information. Customers get the information they seek, whether it is their records, or even a stock quote. Why make them to somewhere else to find information readily available? Employees can access all their information through one search interface as opposed to logging on to multiple systems.
Professional Services and Knowledge Management
Workers must effectively find and information to leverage your investments and maximize their time. Most systems are too complicated and rarely used. The search portal allows knowledge workers to search across all valuable information (public and private) with one query. Making your knowledge workers more productive will millions of dollars in becoming more efficient. Search portals integrate disparate systems like Documentum, MS SharePoint, Salesforce.com, and third party content into one search interface.