Building a house without a strong, well-designed foundation is a terrible idea. So too is implementing an information management solution without a well-designed, search-focused architecture. The design of the architecture is a critical element of a successful user experience and has direct impact on the user’s ability to find what they are looking for now and in the future. A Strong architecture drives findability and leverages standard metadata, corporate and industry taxonomies, and incorporates application master data elements. Artificial intelligence can also add substantially to auto-classification of content.