Hi,
My customer has a SharePoint 2013 on-premise implementation in place. They have a number of intranet web based applications and network drives. The content size of all the documents in these sources would amount to at least 1 TB.
We know that technically SharePoint can crawl these content sources and provide us with search results.
I would like to know your opinion if its a wise decision to integrate SharePoint with external applications (through BCS) and build an information aggregation platform or is it practical to federate the search to external applications without configuring SharePoint to crawl these applications, build index and give search results.
Also, SharePoint can crawl Lotus Notes mails but is it practical to implement that?
How successful is SharePoint on crawling mailboxes?