Education to get started with ESP
The escalating demand for ESP can be daunting for companies looking to hire experienced IT practitioners with ESP skills. A significant number of today's IT workers do not have experience with the technologies realted to enterprise search engine also called ESP. This skills gap can impede and delay deployments among all but the most forward businesses. Quickly building skills is a requirement to keep pace with the competition.
Hermann Software® Education helps you get going quickly via our Web-based training series. Taken as a whole, the series provides a solid foundation for recognizing, evaluating, and proposing your company's ESP needs. Start with the complimentary course Introducing the Basic and Framework Model of Enterprise Search Platform Architecture and round out your introduction with two additional Web-based training modules focusing on ESP Basic, ESP Advanced. These Web-based courses are available at no charge!
As a complement to Web-based training, you can also take advantage of these introductory resources:
- Introduction to ESP
- Selected Hermann Software® ESP Recommended reading
- Administrating ESP FAST 5.3
- Implementing ESP FAST 5.3
- Case Study: Designing Search for YellowPages
- Case Study: Monetizing the Search like google
Get Started with Your ESP FAST 5.3 Training
Hermann Software® has developed a set of guiding Smart ESP principles — the Smart ESP™ approach (PDF, 245KB) — based on experiences from IT and customers using ESP offerings. Hermann Software® Education offers three primary education opportunities to immerse yourself in concentrated and focused classroom education that can build development and deployment skills for Smart ESP solutions at your organization.
Implement an ESP with Hermann Software® product training
Through over numerious ESP engagements, Hermann Software® has learned that companies think about ESP in terms of a life cycle: model, assemble, deploy, manage, and governance. Each of these steps is supported by carefully selected components of the IT industry software portfolio. Hermann Software® Training offers hundreds of flexible training options from Web-based to classroom courses that develop core skills for the Hermann Software® products that will underpin your ESP solution.
Model Phase:
Hermann Software® ESP Certification
After completing your ESP training, you can validate your skills and demonstrate your abilities by sitting for one of two Hermann Software® ESP certifications.
Hermann Software® Certified ESP Associate
- This entry level certification validates the ability of the candidate to articulate the business and technical value of ESP.
- Required test: Test esp01: ESP Fundamentals
Hermann Software® Certified ESP Solution Architect
- This intermediate level certification is intended for solution designers, or consultants and architects with previous experience designing ESP application components and business integration solutions.
- Required test: Test esp002: Architectural Design of ESP Solutions