Understanding the Anatomy of Search: The Data Pipeline
Sharing our thought process behind creating a data pipeline when building out and deploying a successful site search experience
By Shawn Maida
Industries
Technology continues to provide opportunities to enhance and transform the educational experience. Whether it’s offering online curriculum for e-learning or using technology in the classroom, thoughtfully designed digital solutions have the potential to increase learning capabilities and improve the learning experience.
Having worked with a number of educational organizations over the years, we have experience designing and building websites, teacher and student portals, interactive online learning tools and smartboard apps, advanced search systems, ecommerce for educational materials, and online curriculum that includes videos. Whatever the need is, we work closely with you to deliver digital solutions that equip and improve the experience for teachers, students and parents.
Pearson ERPI is a french-language, multi-subject print and digital educational resource publisher based in Québec. We’ve partnered with Pearson ERPI since 2011 to deliver multiple websites with deep integrations to their ecommerce website and online product access portal that serves over a million users annually throughout Canada. We also built a search system that allows users to search the website's ~55k records with search queries that run under 10 milliseconds.
“Foster Made has been a precious partner for many years. Always available and ready to rise to the challenge of dealing with our very special needs, in French and English. In this particular case, their creative ideas and deep technical skills led us to a search engine beyond what we had dreamed about.”
- BIANCA MARTIN, TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER, PEARSON ERPI
Sharing our thought process behind creating a data pipeline when building out and deploying a successful site search experience
By Shawn Maida
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We’ve worked with Foster Made for nearly 10 years, and continue to be impressed with their professionalism, collaboration, and communication. Our organizational structure and industry are not easily grasped, but Foster Made has put forth the effort both initially and throughout our partnership to learn our “language” and types of users to really enhance our online presence.
- MELISSA LINDSLEY, MARKETING DIRECTOR, American Galvanizers Association