Audience
The target audience of the Business Console
are consultants or business users.
Access the Business Console
When you connect to the Business Console as a user (not as administrator), you see a list of all the Mashup UI applications on which you have access. If there is only one application, you are
redirected automatically to its Home page.
To get the rights to access more applications, ask your
Exalead CloudView
administrator.
To access the
Business Console:
Go to
http://<HOSTNAME>:<BASEPORT+1>/business-console.
Replace <HOSTNAME>:<BASEPORT+1> with the web server name provided by your administrator.
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Select a Mashup UI
application, for example, default.
This brings you to the Business Console
Home page. It gives you a centralized view of the main features (see below).
Business Console Capabilities
This section gives a quick description of each Business Console
component.
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Boosted Facets allow you to boost or decrease the relative
importance of certain facets in your search results, either globally, or only for
specific queries. For example, in an enterprise search you may want to give high
priority to all documents from an official document source.
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Boosted Hits allow you to sponsor content based on a search
query by ensuring it always appears at the top of the result list for specific search.
For example, boost an online book store when user searches for books.
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Query Reporting feature analyzes search activity, including: top
queries, top queries without matches, opened documents. This information can then be
used to tune your synonyms or relevance settings.
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Recommendation Rules (Optional) can be used to promote upselling
and cross-selling opportunities using the Content Recommender module of the Business Console. Available as a separate license.
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Semantic resources are compiled XML files containing
instructions, or rules, that define how a semantic processor is to annotate text during
analysis. Semantic resources such as ontologies or rules matchers are used to enrich a
document at indexing time or rewrite a search query at search time. To be integrated
into the indexing or query expansion processes, these resources must be created by the
administrator into the Administration Console. Once this is done, the content of the resources can be edited using the Business Console.
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Synonyms allow you to define synonym resources for the current
application. When searching the index, synonyms are searched in addition to the words in
the user query. Unlike the Synonyms (compiled) from the
Semantic resources, they can be tested without publishing the
modifications (in the Test search menu).
Further Reading
You might need to refer to the following guides as you are learning to use the Business Console.