Federated Search

Federated Search allows users to query multiple Voyager indexes with a single search. By linking multiple Voyager instances together users can gain access to more data, faster. There are a number of ways that federated search can benefit an organization.

Find publicly available data on the internet or in commercial libraries

In some cases locating the information that you don't have is critical to making the best decisions. To help users find this data Voyager has created a public catalog of available web services and commercial content which can be easily incorporated into daily workflows using Voyager's federated search. To connect to the preconfigured public portal simply visit Saved Searches and select "Remote Catalog Search". This will enable users to search their local catalog, Voyager's catalog of publicly available data or other catalogs that have been configured by an administrator.

Remote Catalog Saved Search

View Remote Catalog Filters

Link multiple (remote) locations together

Organizations often have offices distributed across a country or the world. In many cases bandwidth to remote sites isn't readily available or necessarily reliable making indexing of remote locations inefficient. For organizations that wish to have a single unified view of all of their data they can install Voyager at each location and then link each of the Voyager indexes together using a federated search solution.

Provide a consolidated view across multiple departments

Some organizations have a decentralized structure with many autonomous departments each maintaining their own Voyager index. For example in a state government, individual departments such as the Transportation Commission, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Agriculture or others may have a requirement to maintain their own data and corresponding Voyager index. Yet at the state level there may be a need to provide a single unified search solution where workers are able to locate information across all departments. To satisfy all of these requirements Voyager's federated search can be used. This approach helps organizations save time and money by efficiently sharing data, leading to less duplication of effort, preventing the organization from purchasing or collecting the same data twice and in general promoting the efficient use of resources.