Quickstart

A quick under 10-steps tutorial to give you a full overview of the new platform and its capabilities.

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Quickstart

A quick under 10-steps tutorial to give you a full overview of the new platform and its capabilities.

In order to get the full Solution Explorer's experience, we strongly advise you to or on our website.

While the standard smart search is available to all visitors, several features like the AI Assistant or Solutions Interactions are kept behind a log-wall.

2. Access the showcase

On this page you can perform a search, or get a global overview of:

A sample of our Solutions Collections: those are high level & ready-made thematic or geographic portfolios.
The latest Use Cases: those are articles written internally or by innovators to demonstrate their adoptions by clients.
Our latest Initiatives: Similar to collections, these are portfolios of solutions that we used for specific projects.

3. Perform your first search

You can now perform your first search using our Smart Search feature. Find the search bar on the showcase page and input a search query. This new smart search lets you find solutions not only by keyword but also by context or intent. This enables you do be more natural and verbose in your searches and still get relevant results

💡 Query Ideas

You can now freely browse your search results!

The colour of the card of the solution is dependent of the solution type.

Red solutions are Products

Orange solutions are Services

Blue solutions are Processes

Green solutions are Behaviours

Grey solutions are Policies

4. Lookup a Solution Page

Click on a solutions you find interesting.

You can now view a solution page. Every page starts with the solution name, then a clear one sentence description. Then, you have the stage at which the solution is, which lets you see whether a solutions is labeled or not.

This is followed by several informations about the solution and company behind it, like it's labelling date, company name, country of origin as well as maturity stage.

Then, a supporting section explaining further the concept of the solution, the key features (environmental and financial) are further detailed.

Finally, you can discover several tags associated with the solutions, the profile of the company, as well as related solutions.

You can share any solution on your social medias platform by using the relevant links at the bottom of any solution page.

5. Refine your search with a filter

Now, go back using the upper left button to the smart search view. Locate on the right side the panel: + Filters

After clicking on it, you should see a filtering panel sliding into view

For more informations about the smart search feature, including the filters at your disposal, you can check out the dedicated section

6. Switch to Use Cases

On the standard solutions view, you have a toggle switch that enables you to switch view between solutions and use cases.

Use case are a new addition, they are articles, linked to our solutions portfolio, that demonstrate their real world applications.

Note that when performing a search, we query on both solutions and use case at anytime, offering you the opportunity to switch from one view or the other with only one search performed.

A range of filters is also available specific to the use cases. You can filter by a range of possibilities including the solution provider, country, city, client and others.

An interactive map enables you to visualise the localisation of each use case as displayed on the left panel.

For more informations about our use cases, you can deepdive using the following link:

7. Try out the AI Explorer

You have up to 5 queries to the AI Explorer per day. Log in to use the AI Explorer without queries limit.

Our brand new AI Explorer is powered by an intelligent conversational agent utilising retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), it revolutionises how you discover clean technology solutions.

By effectively breaking down barriers, it's like having an expert operations person available to chat and assist you 24/7!

You can access the AI Explorer using the showcase landing page or directly on the navbar Explorer > AI Explorer.

When clicking and accessing the AI Explorer, you'll arrive on its landing page where several suggested queries appear.

On the prompt, you can input any queries that you would on the default smart search, but you can even go further than in the traditional search!

Example of prompts:

In order to learn the full list of features of the AI Explorer, you can access the detailed list of feature on the link below.

8. Browse our Collections

Collections are a new way of browsing bundles of solutions under a specific thematic, crafted by SIF Team members, they provide a good entry point to see solutions portfolio without the need for manual search.

To access a collections, you can either select it from the landing page "Showcase", or use the navbar under Explore > Collections.