Forward Search for Sitecore 2.8 will deliver even more advanced search than previous, including seamless integration with Sitecore version 7 Customer Engagement Platform.
PRLog - Dec. 20, 2013 - FARUM, Denmark -- We are proud to announce that Forward Search for Sitecore version 2.8 will be released January 2014.
Focus on supporting highly personalized content driven websites, for corporate, ecommerce and other uses; Forward Search for Sitecore deliver advanced search, navigation, personalized search results and flexible relevance tuning and boosting capabilities. All seamlessly integrated to the Sitecore WCM platform, Forward Search delivers the most advanced solution available.
Forward Search delivers even more relevant content to the visitors, giving higher visitor satisfaction and higher conversions rates.
Forward Search for Sitecore can boost sales and customer loyalty by delivering the most relevant products, options and related information fast, regardless of whether the product catalogs resides in Sitecore or in external systems.
Forward Search for Sitecore built exclusively on Microsoft .Net and has all administrator, editor and marketer features and tuning capabilities enabled from with the Sitecore Editor, including:
· Advanced Search – including many ready to use features like Type Ahead, Did you Mean, Fuzzy search, Custom or Multilingual Thesaurus and Powerful relevance ranking and boosting options (Document boost, Field boost, Query boost and Profile Boost).
· Faceted Search and Search Driven Navigation – Optimize websites or ecommerce sites to assist visitors in finding relevant information or products; Facets can be applied to the contents solution in more profound ways, virtually eliminating the need for the classical search field. The facets can be presented as navigational options along with, and seamlessly integrated with the standard website navigation system, as sub-menus and multiple choice options on overview pages.
· Flexible Design Options – Supporting responsive design or any other requirements thru full flexibility to customize the rendering of the results etc. with a minimum of code needed, many examples are available.
· Sitecore DMS Search - Forward Search delivers search based on the DMS profile that is generated by the visitor behavior and provide even more relevant search results, including support for Sitecore Rule Engine making is very easy to configure.
· Geo Search – Geo-Spatial Search provides information or product suggestions based on the visitor’s location or within a specific distance.
· Visual Content Analysis – Helps editors and marketers understand the collected content and in the context which they are organized and viewed, including DMS content profiles, which makes the able to tune Meta Data, facets, content profiles and apply boosting for a range or individual documents, setting up Meta Data inheritance, linking from the collected document to open the Sitecore edit window editing or further enrichment.
· Advanced Security – Delivers secure search in near real time, including adaption of Sitecore user roles that also provides a truly personalized administration surface with no extra login required.
· Forward Search: The Best of both worlds! – Delivers an advanced search Product ready to use "Out-of-the-box", Multilingual support and Enterprise Administration, but also as an Platform provides vast customization and extension options through extended configuration and API’s, just like Sitecore.
· Enterprise Ready – With Forward Search it is easy to deploy, manage and integrate Search for your Websites or other Solutions besides Sitecore with Enterprise-class capabilities designed for supporting even the most demanding organizations. Forward Search is available for on premise installation or as a cloud-based platform. No matter the distribution of choice, organizations take full advantage of all capabilities Forward Search delivers. Enterprise support is provided by Forward Search Premium support for all Enterprise level projects, which includes direct support to the expert support team and free virtual onsite assistance on a day-to-day basis as extra service on top of the services provided for standard projects with day-to-day online support through our ticket system.
About Forward Search
Forward Search has for a number of years been focused on providing solutions for particularly Sitecore, gaining many customers and partners, constantly evolving our product to meet new technical, customer and vendor needs, supporting market trends.
Forward Search is used by more than 160 customers consisting of both public and private organizations in many different segments and is applied to more than 650 Websites.
The company behind Forward Search was founded in 2004 in Denmark, first as an Enterprise Search consultant company and from 2006 as a Software vendor with the aim of providing the flexibility in Search Solutions that customers and developers requested. This was achieved by the launch of Forward Search.
Our business area is development, service and distribution of Forward Search – Website and Enterprise Search platform, though 35+ partners that work in the digital content management and digital marketing marketplace.
Forward Search partner with leading software companies such as EPiServer and Sitecore.
Features customers and brands
Boston Children's Hospital (US), Bekaert SA (Belgium), C1000 Supermarkets (Netherlands), Coloplast A/S (Denmark), DSV A/S (Denmark), Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs (Denmark), European Free Trade Association – EFTA (Belgium), KIA Motors (Netherlands), MIG Bank (Switzerland), Milkround Online Ltd. - News International (UK), NMBS/SNCB - National Railway Company (Belgium), Stockholm International Fairs (Sweden), Tanaka Pharmaceuticals (Denmark), Tulip Food Company (Denmark) and Vestas (Denmark).
For more information, visit www.forwardsearch.dk.
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