Wednesday 17 December 2008

Document Preview & HTML Hit highlighter

Document Preview & HTML Hit highlighter

What is the impact on bandwidth for this organisation by having so many users downloading – some times non-pertinent documents? Is there ample bandwidth or is this a problem?

Rather than, Unlike:

In large organisations where bandwidth resources are limited FAST can provide document previews so that users can pre-qualify document before actioning a download.

Business Objectives, Business Challenges:

Reduce bandwidth costs and constraints.

Reduced bandwidth cost.

Increase speed to access intelligence.

I CAN GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE:

Norton Rose, one of the magic circle UK Law Firm had a challenge in that lawyers were forced to research a corpus of several hundred thousand documents. Each document was several hundred pages long. Finding a hit in a document becomes a less powerful means of determining relevancy in this case. FAST has now allowed lawyers to identify word matches down to a particular paragraph and sentence. In order to expedite the time to find relevant intelligence FAST provides a heat map over a cached HTML version.

The benefits are two fold. Lawyers can quickly identify areas of interest through an overview of the relevant sections. So less time locating more time making decisions based on relevant information.

Also, the HTML version precludes the need for downloading the original image heavy document which may be several megabytes in size. We can quickly download the several kilobyte HTML replicate in seconds.

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