Other Considerations for Magnify Implementation

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When beginning a Magnify implementation, you need to understand the full set of requirements. Most important is where does the information reside, how do users contextualize it, and how are they expected to understand the information through reporting?

  1. Where does the data reside (one or more databases, file repositories, email server, and so on)?
  2. What is the current quality of the data? Are there missing relationships, is cleansing required, and so on?
  3. What is the physical size of the original data? How many tables, fields, and rows are involved? At what rate does it grow, and what is the expected size in the future? How many records are added, updated, or deleted at specific intervals?
  4. Of the raw data, what is structured versus unstructured?
  5. What types of informational concepts will be expected (people, places, things, etc)? How does the raw data correlate? Will the data be aggregated?
  6. What mechanisms provide alerts that new information is available, has been updated, or is ready to expire (flag, date, and so on)?
  7. At what frequency should search engine index feeds occur (real-time, scheduled, and so on)?
  8. What hardware is available (64-bit, 16GB memory, and so on), is new hardware being purchased for this?
  9. How many users are expected, total users and concurrent users?
  10. What level of security is required?
  11. What type of business intelligence reporting is expected when drilling down on a search result?

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Reference: Examples Provided with WebFOCUS

Public Product Demonstration:

http://mktdemos.informationbuilders.com:8080/ibi_apps/search

Procedures installed with the Reporting Server and Developer Studio: (\ibi\apps\ibisamp)

Century Electronics Magnify Search Example: (Installed with WebFOCUS 7.7.03 and higher)

Navigate to (adjusting for your own WebFOCUS configuration):

http://localhost:8080/ibi_apps/search?proxyreload=1&clearcache=1
&collections=collections_century.xml

Note: Sample or default URLs are for informational purposes only and may not resolve correctly, if at all.

You can search on terms in the help section. This can also be accessed from any mobile device.

If Developer Studio is not installed, you will need to unzip the ibimagn archive to the \ibi\apps directory. This is found in \ibi\WebFOCUS\utilities\demos. It includes all Format Magnify procedures used to create the example, which includes an example for indexing files.

Recommendation: Change the output of each procedure to HTML to see how the data is being transformed into search results and back to MAGNIFY to index the data

Note: To return to default search page, use the following URL:

http://localhost:8080/ibi_apps/search?proxyreload=1&clearcache=1
&collections=collections.xml


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