Smart Previews boosts productivity by helping users quickly find what they seek, explore inside documents and attachments, identify content to re-use, and automatically assemble it into new documents.
Instant preview of the entire document regardless of location. Content may be in SharePoint, in FileShares, or in any system with a connector.
Available formats include: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, .pdf, email (.msg and .eml – plus attachments), images (.gif, .png, .tiff, and .bmp), .zip, .html and .htm, .rtf, and .txt.
Smart Previews starts the user at the most relevant page. Each page is fully hit highlighted, using color coding for different terms. Users can search inside or navigate using a dynamic hit-map to rapidly evaluate content for relevance and locate information deep inside documents.
Smart Previews may be generated ahead of time or on demand. For large complex documents, pre-processing provides a dramatically quicker response time and lower bandwidth usage. When content is found, users can take action directly from the preview without ever having to download or open the native file.
Smart Previews aren’t just available from search results. They are available in SharePoint Document libraries as well. Solution developers can include Smart Previews with 2 lines of Javascript.
Users can save results from a search session to the Smart Previews workspace, and tag pages for reference and future work. Users can arrange, share, and export selections from their workspace; the workspace is persistent across devices and sessions so you can continue to work seamlessly from the office PC to your iPad at home.
From the workspace, users can do content assembly and create composite documents. For example, users can create Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, Excel manifests, and ZIP fields using search derived content while preserving images and native formatting and maintaining references to the original source content. This works on selected content in any supported format, stored in any repository with a connector. Content Assembly has proven to be a huge timesaver, as users select and re-use content into a new report automatically, eliminating cut-and-paste work.
Verified User in Pharmaceuticals, Enterprise Company
“The SmartHub product and connector framework are flexible and powerful, allowing connectivity to common on-prem and cloud hosted endpoints. The real strength in BA Insight’s Enterprise Search is in their technical team.”
“Their implementation team proved to be highly knowledgeable and worked well with our in-house development team, which in turn allowed us to get all of the configuration and customizations we wanted before we went live.”
Jan. 4, 2023
Verified User in Manufacturing, Enterprise Company
“Team was fantastic in helping us understand our requirements and connect Connectivity Hub to our existing data sources.”
“BA Insight implemented Smart Hub and Smart Previews as well, which we published to our user base. Later on we explored using Autoclassifier for AI use cases. BA Insight crawls our enterprise information repositories, indexing into unified search indexes. Smart Hub provides a rich search experience for users. We are also using auto classifier to support artificial intellignce use cases, in helping us crawl and ingest third party content sources.”
August 5, 2024
Verified User in Legal Services, Enterprise Company
“The engagement from BA Insight’s customer service and development teams is second-to-none. They invested a bundle of time to understand our business problems, develop a potential solution, and then investigated configuring the tool to precisely meet out requirements.”
“The tool itself is also immensely powerful. We’ve only begun scratching the surface of what the search tool provides. We’ve connected in a customized OCR tool and developed a custom search experience for our users.”
August 14, 2024
Verified User in Legal Services, Enterprise Company
“The SmartHub product and connector framework are flexible and powerful, allowing connectivity to common on-prem and cloud hosted endpoints. The real strength in BA Insight’s Enterprise Search is in their technical team.
Their implementation team proved to be highly knowledgeable and worked well with our in-house development team, which in turn allowed us to get all of the configuration and customizations we wanted before we went live.”
July 26, 2024
