How to Integrate Microsoft Search in Atlassian Confluence

In any company, knowledge and documents are stored in a wide variety of systems and under different names and in numerous folders. In addition, the company’s knowledge is distributed across various teams. Although the knowledge is in the company, it is not accessible to everyone. How do you find relevant knowledge without wasting time and nerves? How do you keep track of things even in large projects? How can you introduce effective knowledge management in companies?

Atlassian Confluence is used by many of our customers as a data center edition or as a cloud version. Our customers use it successfully as a company wiki for project management, for IT or project documentation or for documenting processes. Another tool that many of our customers use for social collaboration and communication in addition to Confluence is Office 365. With Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online it offers an excellent combination for collaborative work.

An enterprise search can release knowledge from platforms that are accessed centrally, Atlassian Confluence and O365. This facilitates independent work, as you can easily find content from a central place. Access to less recent company knowledge is also easier, even if you produce and add a large number of new documents every day. For customers in this scenario, Office 365 is a strategic platform and with Microsoft Search it offers a search engine that can index content e.g. from Confluence and display it in O365.

Microsoft Search Builds Bridges with Raytion Graph Connectors

Microsoft Search is a great foundation for enterprise search in the cloud because it automatically indexes all content from SharePoint Online and Teams and more content sources a consistent search. Moreover, this content can be searched from various starting points such as office.com, SharePoint Online or Bing for Business.

The Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search also enable an easy and secure access to Atlassian Confluence in Microsoft Search. So you can use Microsoft Search to look for and find all Confluence content such as wiki pages, blog posts or even attachments via full-text search. This type of search is not a cross-application search using the built-in Confluence index, but an indexing in the Microsoft Cloud.

Confluence and Enterprise Search Results – © Raytion GmbH

Integrating Microsoft Search Directly in Confluence

Vice versa, it is easy to integrate Microsoft Search directly into Atlassian Confluence. By using the Microsoft Search query APIs, you can implement and integrate a fully featured search experience in the wiki directly. Such an integration can be implemented as a frontend-side component or with a middleware, such as the Raytion Search & Retrieval Interface.
This way, users do not have any media breaks and can access the enterprise search directly from wherever they work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtaDHpyV-RI

The video shows Raytion’s search as you type integration of Microsoft Search in Confluence, a frontend-side component. While typing, users receive search results from Microsoft Search, which are displayed side by side with search results from Confluence.

This macro offers a great enterprise search experience in Confluence itself, which can be tailored to your needs. For instance, you could easily include recommended links or tailored result blocks for project spaces. Only in case users cannot find what they are looking for in this type-ahead, a click on the search button redirects them to the search experience in Office 365.

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