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Enterprise Search at AstraZeneca
Pharmaceuticals
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General AstraZeneca Background
• Waltham focus on Cancer and Infection • About 12,000 R&D Staff Globally• Increasing External Partnerships and Alliances
Montreal
Boston
Wilmington
AlderleyMacclesfield
CharnwoodAvlon
MölndalSödertälje
Lund
Reims Bangalore
Internal Drug ProjectsPatients & Markets
Organization & Admin
More at AstraZeneca.com
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Search in Context
Collaborative Areas:Place to collaborate quickly and
easily without worrying about work in progress being misunderstood
~ 8,000 today
Information Libraries:More official sources of “finished”
information that’s likely to have value over time and to a relatively wide audience
Portal Interface:Single point of entry to information and
tools – via browsing or searching
Our “3-Fold Path”
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Search Interfaces
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Amateur’s View of Search• Engine
• We Currently use Autonomy• Constant Comparison to Speed & Quality of Google
• Interface• Simple starting point – click and go• Advanced option (rarely used)• Presentation of Results
• Underlying Quality of Information• Increasing Reach of Enterprise Taxonomy• Very questionable application by individual editors /
contributors
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Open Questions• How can we reduce the IM burden on scientists,
clinicians?• Taxonomy vs Folksonomy vs Irrelevant• Will manual tagging of documents be overtaken by
technology?• How to integrate it all
• Volume• Range of repositories – secure, limited, and open• Range of information types – structured, free, video, etc.
• General People Issues• Are people ready to find vs navigate?• Dealing with range of skill levels & time constraints