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PhilipBae
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AEM Search Solution

  • March 7, 2017
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Hi all,

Has anyone implemented an enterprise level search solution for AEM?

The out-of-box Lucene is just terrible and not scalable as it has to be served up from Publisher. I tried Apache Solr with OOTB integration. This is also not a solution as query HAS to come back to Publisher and it is Publisher that instead of using its Lucene, it just extends Solr for queries, which helps Publisher, but Publisher still becomes the bottleneck.

I could write up a sling module to spit out XML structure of the content, then use Solr to index separately, but this requires a lot of development.. Is there any search solution that has this integration already built?

Much appreciated!

Philip

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Best answer by maruthid1

Ideally your enterprise search solution should not depend on whether integration with AEM available or not. You will end up using this search solution across different web properties which could be built using different platforms.

AFAIK AEM don't have any integration with any of the search solutions you mentioned but for most of them either passing url or xml feed will suffice on content publish from AEM. In case of GSA it is pretty simple (but note Google is changing licensing model it might cost you more). 

For front end integration with AEM , make sure views are still managed in AEM and responses are from search engine. Use one of the data binding java script frameworks like angular so that load is on the search server where as still the page layout changes can be published out of AEM.

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PhilipBaeAuthor
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April 3, 2017

@valcohen -- I had no idea Search&Promote was a cloud-based search solution that Adobe offered. I just could not find anything about it from search on web. After attending one of the session at the Adobe Summit 2017, I now know! I ended up grabbing a bunch of screenshots.

Thanks!!
Philip

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PhilipBaeAuthor
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April 3, 2017

@daniel_henrique

I had no idea AWS had CloudSearch. It looks pretty robust solution very comparable to Search&Promote. Will look into it. Thanks so much!

Philip

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valcohen
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April 3, 2017

@PhilipBae heh, I was at Summit, and I had the opposite impression -- I was afraid Search&Promote was on its way out, since I didn't hear it mentioned once! I guess they're emphasizing the "Target" part of the name. So far we're using it to good effect -- I hope it works out for you.

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PhilipBaeAuthor
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April 3, 2017

@valcohen -- Yeah.. Search&Promote is definitely going through a few transition. There isn't a good web page for it other than the SnP documentation. My understanding is that instead of promoting SnP alone, they want to provide it as Adobe Target brand where that suite of product offers advanced targeting/personalization. When I asked the SnP product manager about the licensing, he said that I probably will need to buy it as an add-on to Adobe Target Standard and Premium. Definitely confusing and vague.

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