Technology Focus Part 3 Improve Your Site's Searchability

Sophisticated tools such as advanced search can play a key role in point-of-sale, customer service, warehouse management and merchandising. Aging technology platforms, however, necessitated building these kinds of capabilities into each individual application separately, which results in a nightmare of redundant development and maintenance expenses. Newer solutions shift the traditional point-solution focus to a more holistic enterprise-services approach using new technologies based on a services-oriented architecture.