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“Ubisoft: Custom search supports game development” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast

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Mar 19, 2024

Game on! That’s what you want everyone to think and feel when they set out to search, discover, find, and use content and knowledge across your organization. And sometimes that leads to refining and customizing the overall search experience – especially when you’re in, or have recently moved to, the Cloud. Don’t let a lesser-than Search experience halt progress. AKA, avoid any notion of “Game over.”

 

On today's episode we chat with Mihaela Nita, Franck Cornu, and Stephanie Daigle - all from the gaming company Ubisoft (Microsoft customer). From blockbuster brands to new IPs, Ubisoft has a 35-year track record of creating a varied line-up of games – such as Assassin’s Creed®, Brawlhalla®, For Honor®, Far Cry®, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon®, Just Dance®, and more. Thus, we dug into numerous topics, centering around their journey to update their old global search application – originally built on SharePoint Server 2013 on-premises, now fully leveraging SharePoint in Microsoft 365. I like to think of it as SharePoint being a solid gaming-collaboration platform ;).

 

We spoke to Stephanie, Mihaela, and Franck to get insights about their business decisions – why move to the cloud, how and when to customize the Search experience in the cloud, any impacts to their user base, and tips and tricks along the way for your consideration – should you dear Intrazone listener get inspired to take your search in the cloud to the next customizable level (and play a few games along the way ;)).

 

Our full discussion is embedded below and now available through your favorite pod’player.

 

The Intrazone, episode 107, "Ubisoft - Custom search supports game development":

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The Intrazone guests and co-host via Teams, clockwise from top left: Franck Cornu (Ubisoft – guest), Mark Kashman (Microsoft – co-host), Mihaela Nita (Ubisoft – guest), and Stephanie Daigle (Ubisoft – guest).

See it all in action: "Build Microsoft Graph connected web sites for a custom enterprise search experience" with Franck Cornu (Ubisoft): 

 

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  • emily1122's avatar
    emily1122
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 23, 2024

    This episode offers a fascinating look at how Ubisoft, a gaming giant, is modernizing its global search capabilities using SharePoint in Microsoft 365. It's inspiring to see how they’re enhancing collaboration and efficiency by moving to the cloud. A must-listen for anyone interested in digital transformation within the game development industry!