SharePoint Server 2007 Powers Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

In light of the 2008 Olympics starting tomorrow in Beijing, we’re extremely excited to share that the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is one of our newest SharePoint Server 2007 customers! After checking out a variety of different search solutions, such as the Google Search Appliance, the BOCOG is using SharePoint as a search platform to power their INFO 2008 database (which over 3,500 Olympics partners and members of the media will have access to.) This means that thousands of athletes, officials, partners and media will be able to quickly and easily search and find the information they need to successfully present, promote, and report the 29th Summer Olympics on the SharePoint platform.

Not only is the BOCOG a great customer to work with, this is a perfect example of how SharePoint can perform under pressure and scale to fit the business needs of any enterprise-sized customer. Using our powerful Enterprise Search functions in SharePoint, INFO 2008 users will be able to access the information they need in an easy, efficient way.

Below is a screenshot of the INFO 2008 system in action, using SharePoint to search athlete bios:

Check out the rest of the BOCOG case study here, and let the games begin!

Read the complete post at http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2008/08/05/sharepoint-server-2007-powers-beijing-2008-olympic-games.aspx