Case Study: COWI achieves enterprise-wide, high-performance SharePoint search with iManage Insight (iManage)

iManage Revolutionizes COWI’s SharePoint 2013 Search

COWI, a global consulting group specializing in engineering, environmental science and economics with 50 remote offices, needed to upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013 while replacing a legacy enterprise search. With millions of documents across a highly distributed environment, their main challenges were avoiding costly full data migration, indexing non‑SharePoint content, and reducing hardware and license costs for a federated search architecture.

They implemented iManage Insight for Microsoft SharePoint, deploying satellite agents at each office, an ETL connectivity layer, a centralized index and preview/security components to respect access controls. The solution extended SharePoint Search to non‑Microsoft sources and remote sites while shrinking the physical SharePoint footprint; representative results include a 57% reduction in initial indexing time, over 90% less bandwidth during indexing, a 70% faster preview time, and an estimated reduction of 12 servers/licenses, with improved query performance and lower administration overhead.

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Frederik Bonde Lykke Nielsen

Senior IT Manager