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Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Jul-2011
With the amount of exposure for SEO nowadays, a whole industry has sprung up around it. And CMS vendors have been quick to jump on the bandwagon, offering a myriad of SEO "features," "modules," "plugins," and "wizards." From what we can see, customers are finding it increasingly hard to distinguish sense from nonsense ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Jun-2011
Rules of thumb can be dangerous -- because of the inherent broad generalizations. But they can also be quite useful, especially if they highlight something that may be unpleasant to hear, but shouldn't be ignored.One such truths is that in general, your implementation cost for an enterprise implementation will come to 7 to 8 times that of initial licensing ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Jun-2011
Google has announced that for Google Apps, it's dropping support of older browsers. Only the current and previous versions of IE, Firefox, Safari, and of course Chrome will be supported. After August 1st, Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3 and older versions will be the first to be dropped. Clearly, this is going to put some customer IT departments in a bit of a pickle ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Jun-2011
We've said this before on this blog, in various ways. But sometimes, the simple analogies seem to work the best: if you think of SharePoint, think of it as a Swiss Army Knife. That sounds great, doesn't it? It's like the multi-tool of content technologies. Imagine a major vendor and integrators turning up at dinner to explain how great their Swiss Army Knife is for any purpose, and yes, it's excellent to carve your food with, too. Why go with just a knife, if you can have a whole range of additional functionality in one system? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-May-2011
Perhaps you're thinking about adding some "2.0" to your site or intranet, to obtain that great user generated content (UGC) -- but where do you start? You start with commenting, of course ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 25-Apr-2011
Intranets guru James Robertson (of StepTwo) just reminded me of the Intranet Innovation Awards 2011, now in it's fifth year. It's one of the few ways to learn of great intranets, because after all, these are usually hidden behind the firewall ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Apr-2011
MarkLogic is a fairly unique platform that can provide impressive infrastructural services for XML storage and processing. It's also very good at searching its own repository. So why don't we review MarkLogic in our Search & Information Access research? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Apr-2011
As I've noted on this blog many times before, a lot of Google Search Appliance's "features" are actually outside-of-the-box, rather than out-of-the-box. That can present an unpleasant surprise to many Google customers. But ironically, it's also a great advantage to anyone who wants to use ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Feb-2011
I've been working with web content management systems for almost fifteen years now. And exasperatingly, I still see the same project problems recur constantly ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Feb-2011
One of the questions I hear time and again is: "We're running SharePoint. Should we get a Google Appliance for search?" This was the case with SharePoint 2007, and it hasn't changed with 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jan-2011
Some of our subscriber inquiries have to do with accelerating their website and CMS deployment times. Having been burnt by waterfall-oriented development methodologies in the past, enterprises are now looking to "agile" development for answers. But already, many are becoming equally disillusioned with agile. Is it really just as problematic as waterfall? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Jan-2011
Nearly all the vendors we cover have become quite good at marketing themselves. But if you dig deeper, you'll find many differences have gotten wallpapered over. The challenging bit for us is trying to explain what lies underneath. Take Alterian, and its Alterian Content Manager product ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 5-Jan-2011
After a long wait, extended several times, Drupal 7 was released today. So what is it like, and should you rush over to download and install it right away? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Dec-2010
One question I get on a regular basis is, "so, what's the best CMS?" And I invariably reply, "it depends." There really is no best CMS; there is only the best fit for you, in your scenarios ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Dec-2010
We always follow the communities around specific products quite closely. Whether an open source or commercial closed source system, product communities can give us great input on the real story. But one thing to remember is that the most active and enthusiastic communities are also a really biased source of information ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Nov-2010
Swedish WCM vendor EPiServer was acquired a few weeks ago -- and I've been trying to come up with something meaningful to say about it ever since ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 29-Nov-2010
Most recently, Wired Magazine managed to reach the zenith with the article "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet." Even though that's been discussed to death on the web (dead itself), allow me to spoof their title one last time. Just to make an entirely different point: whereas the mobile web is alive and kicking -- it's becoming nearly impossible to create mobile apps. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 28-Oct-2010
I tend use cars as a metaphor to describe the differences among software products. Even in internal discussions among our team of analysts. Which is how this came up last week: I described a particular system as a Toyota compared to another vendor's Ferrari ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Oct-2010
Google is announcing a new version of the Google Search Appliance today -- version 6.8 of the company's enterprise search solution. The headline feature is "Cloud Connect" -- but that's in fact a pretty superficial addition. If you look at the technology, what's more interesting is that this release marks another small step in Google's long transition from fiction to reality ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Oct-2010
Last week, I presented at Mobile Mojo -- an event about Mobile & Social. It was an interesting gathering, with a lot of buzz. One of the highlights was certainly Peter Hinssen's excellent keynote about ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Sep-2010
What, your system vendor doesn't have an app store yet? Apple has popularized the concept, and most phone platforms now have something similar: Google's Android Market and Nokia's Ovi Store come to mind. So now everyone has to have one, not just devices, but enterprise software as well ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Sep-2010
It's easy to get caught up in the announcements of new and exciting stuff -- and even easier to have forgotten about them when they quietly leave the stage. Case in point: Cuil and Clusty ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Sep-2010
On October 7th, the MobileMojo event in Utrecht (NL) will focus on mobile and social media. Those two areas touch on almost everything we cover, so I'm happy that both my colleague Theresa Regli and I will be attending ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Sep-2010
VideoEgg announced today it will acquire Six Apart (creators of Movable Type). Or, depending on how you look at it, it's a merger. VideoEgg and Six Apart will form a new company, called "SAY Media." But where does that leave Movable Type? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Sep-2010
A couple of people pinged me last week, basically asking, "who are these Atex people?" (The company's name got a bit elevated when they made it onto Gartner's recent Magic Quadrant analysis for web content management.) ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Aug-2010
Danish CMS vendor Sitecore released their new version 6.3 last month. For me, the immediate question always is: how much has changed? It's only a dot release, so it shouldn't be anything major, right? Well ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Aug-2010
There's an odd fascination with equestrianism in technology. Vendor landscapes are often described as horse races; there's leaders and laggards, winners and losers. That's great for gamblers, investors, and jockeys. But it's not very useful ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2010
There's a lot of mysticism shrouding Autonomy's mega-search offering, "IDOL." Not in the least bit because every piece of software that is acquired by the vendor is either "plugged into," "powered by," or "integrated with" IDOL. Supposedly, ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Aug-2010
However, make no mistake: FAST may be a lot less expensive, but it's certainly not going to come cheap. Not in the least bit because implementing it right will still be an expert's job. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Aug-2010
This year's big plan for Swedish Web CMS vendor EPiServer was to go public on July 30th. In the end, though, that didn't quite work out: EPi withdrew at the last minute ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Jul-2010
If you're running a SAP NetWeaver Portal -- presumably since you've bought into SAPs infrastructure -- you may have discovered it's not the most ideal of platforms to actually publish content on ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Jul-2010
I sometimes warn that a vendor's content management system is well suited to "simple" scenarios, but not necessarily a good fit for "more complex" cases. That's a bit problematic: ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Jul-2010
After a long spending spree -- pretty much on anything XML -- SDL has now acquired small Dutch vendor Xopus ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Jul-2010
Well, it was to be expected: after a long wait, WordPress 3.0 got released just when I was on a short holiday. (WordPress admins shouldn't be allowed to take holidays for that exact reason.) ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Jul-2010
Now that we've built content management to reach into the clouds, have we been punished by a confusion of tongues? Sure, there are tangible differences between, say, a page-based or a component-based system. And some labels are rooted in their underlying technology. Still, there's a couple of archetypes we could at least attempt to label similarly ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Jun-2010
You may have noticed Facebook "Like" buttons spring up everywhere on the web the past few months ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 9-Jun-2010
Dassault Systèmes, a major product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor, has announced the acquisition of enterprise search vendor Exalead. Which of course leads to the two usual questions with any acquisition ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Apr-2010
I spent several days anxiously keeping track of the latest updates on the cloud hanging over Europe. It gave me plenty of time to ponder just how important on-line communications play a role in this nowadays. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Apr-2010
You may have heard of the 90/9/1 rule of social engagement: in essence, the rule posits that in a community, 90% of the people are passive readers; 9% are active participants; and 1% account for creating the majority of content ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Apr-2010
This is just a little tiff between vendors, so why should you care? Well, both are making it abundantly clear that a vendor is not a neutral source of information ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 14-Apr-2010
Politics aside, I've always enjoyed watching the occasional French president's speech on television. Where U.S. presidents act, well, presidential, and the Queen will be regal, a French head of state is much more expansive. And nowadays, we can also compare another style: on-line presence ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Mar-2010
If you live in North America, it's easy to forget that Facebook's global competition may not be MySpace or LinkedIn. Instead, it's a plethora of local competitors. For example, Hyves, here in The Netherlands, has some 7.6m users ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Mar-2010
Google bought DocVerse two weeks ago -- but that was hardly a surprise. DocVerse allows people to collaborate on the same Office document via special plug-in. The software syncs ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Mar-2010
Microblogging is the quintessential "keep it simple" service. So when a vendor adds a seemingly minor new feature, that's relatively big news ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Feb-2010
On behalf of HTML developers across the world, I would like to thank Apple and Google. Specifically, Mountain View for dropping Internet Explorer 6 support, and in its own not-so-small way helping us get rid of the untold horrors IE6 has inflicted on stylesheets for the past seven years. And Cupertino for the advancement of HTML 5 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Feb-2010
At times I get the feeling the content technologies aren't affected by the economic downturn. Some of the vendors we cover have come out with early reports on their performance over 2009, and so far the news is good ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 4-Feb-2010
Software vendor Alterian has cleared up which Web CMS software it wants to try to sell you in the future. In short, all of their alphabet soups going forward will taste like Morello ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Jan-2010
Like nearly all its competitors, Swedish Web CMS and Social Software vendor EPiServer is doing well financially. The company reports nearly $30m in revenues over 2009 and now boasts almost 3,000 customers. So perhaps it's no surprise that last week ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Jan-2010
For those vendors with solid profits, it's a buyer's market. SDL, parent company of such products as Tridion, Trados, Trisoft, and XySoft, announced the acquisition of Dutch e-commerce vendor Fredhopper today. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Jan-2010
Regular readers of this blog know that Surfray's MondoSearch and Ontolica (search for SharePoint) products have a bit of a checkered past. First vendor MondoSoft went bankrupt; it was then sold to SurfRay; then SurfRay went bankrupt; then it was restructured to SurfRay 2009. But I'm happy to report that the Danish company now seems to be doing a lot better ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Jan-2010
Noted blog package WordPress keeps coming out with maybe more releases than you'd care for, fixing exploits and bugs, but also steadily improving functionality. By comparison, it has been very quiet around Movable Type. That is, until last week, when the long-awaited version 5 was released. So was it worth the wait? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Jan-2010
What if finding that one bit of information is of vital importance? Well, it may not have been the main story angle of last month's attempted terrorist attack, but we've certainly heard a lot about how good information management might have prevented the attempted airline bombing. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 4-Jan-2010
Twitter apparently isn't just for "microblogging" anymore. Co-founder Biz Stone would now describe it as an "information network." So there you have it: the activity you engage in on Twitter is now "information networking." Thankfully, everyone's already calling it "tweeting" instead ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Dec-2009
Quick question. If a conference runs simultaneous tracks on "Enterprise Search," "Document Management," and "Company XYZ's project to replace the intranet with microwikiblogging," which will have the largest audience? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Dec-2009
Maybe it's because a Google Appliance is an actual, physical machine, and not just an intangible piece of software. But the question that keeps popping up is "can you actually keep it running once the 2-year license runs out?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 3-Dec-2009
If you're familiar with Lotus Notes/Domino, I'm sure SharePoint, in many ways, feels like a déjà vu. But because we don't cover the Notes client or the Domino server (well, not on its own, though we cover several IBM Lotus products that run on top of Domino), I've never really compared them head-to-head ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Dec-2009
A press release was sent to me today with the title "SDL Tridion Puts Online Forms at the Heart of Interaction." Which made me smile, in a nostalgic sort of way ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Nov-2009
Last year I blogged about several free enterprise search solutions, and it looks Coveo is now bringing coffee to the free beer party I described back then. A couple of weeks ago the vendor announced "Expresso," "your free entry to enterprise search." ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 28-Oct-2009
Time to put the Wave to the test. Over the past few weeks, Google opened up Wave, its "online tool for real-time communication and collaboration." There's been quite the invite-frenzy with Google using the doorman's trick. You have to be on the list to get in, so you'll have to wait in line; but since you can see there's a huge line, there must be a good reason to want to get in. So you want in, right? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Oct-2009
Google released a fairly significant version 6.2 of its appliance today. There's a very corporate YouTube video summarizing the main novelties, and a quirky one about the one spotlighted for this release -- the "Self Learning Scorer," which uses indirect feedback from clickthroughs to improve ranking ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Oct-2009
If you're following the content management space closely, but aren't a Java wizard, the JSR (Java Specification Request) numbers can become a bit of a puzzle ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 5-Oct-2009
Last week, IBM announced the official release of Lotus Connections 2.5. For me, the main two updates in this social software tool are ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Oct-2009
Is Google Sites a SharePoint killer? Well, to be fair, I haven't heard the exact term this past week, but the innuendo was clearly there ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Sep-2009
Once upon a time, when people started building web content management systems that actually allowed you to manage the content (and not just publish it), there were hundreds of editors ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 31-Aug-2009
It's one of those elusive dreams of web content management: a completely metadata-driven publishing model. Especially when there's lots of content, and a variety of sites or channels targeting different audiences. Wouldn't it be great if content more or less automatically found its way to the right places? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Aug-2009
Over the years, I've seen a large number of web content management functional designs, technical designs, requirements, wireframes and mock-ups. And usually, the one thing missing is what's most likely to shoot the implementation in the foot ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Aug-2009
Contrary to what you'd might have heard, in the Web CMS space, products rarely disappear without a trace. However, product names do often vanish in acquisitions. So as a public service, if you're reading this because you were searching for either Mediasurface Morello or Immediacy ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Aug-2009
If you're admin of a number of WordPress implementations, I hope you didn't plan anything. Just because, you know, neither did WordPress. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jul-2009
Bluenog, an upstart web content management company, continues to make waves. But not always the kind of waves they'd like ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jul-2009
A lot of my time is spent evaluating technology, and I have a confession to make: the licensing is one of the least spectacular bits to review. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jun-2009
In a clip on YouTube, an interviewer asks passersby in Times Square what a browser is.The surprising result: many think it's a search engine ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jun-2009
A few months ago, I blogged about ISYS offering their document converter filters as a separate component. My thought was these would come in handy to add on ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Jun-2009
Last week, I posted a highly critical comment on Google's marketing of the Appliance, version 6 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Jun-2009
The release of a new major version of the Google Search Appliance usually creates lots of excitement, but that excitement fades quickly once people start to use the machines for real ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 29-May-2009
Somewhat stealing the thunder of Microsoft's almost-released Bing search, Google presented a preview of Wave yesterday at the I/O Developer conference. So what kind of wave is this? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 25-May-2009
After months of high anticipation of what this "Google killer" would bring, Wolfram Alpha was finally opened to the public a week ago ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-May-2009
There's too much here to write up in one blog post, so I'll pick one of the cherries for you here. Last week's Enterprise Search Summit in New York ended with roundtable discussions ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-May-2009
I'm excited to be headed over to New York next week. The Enterprise Search Summit 2009 brings together a veritable who's-who in search ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Apr-2009
Meet Stan, the everyman, who'll try to sell you on Vivisimo Velocity enterprise search software ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Apr-2009
An early joke on Twitter about the Oracle/SUN acquisition: "Oracle buys Sun just to see if Twitter can handle the resulting noise" ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Apr-2009
One of those easy-to-overlook but important details of a search engine: will it actually read your files? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 26-Mar-2009
A rather quaint trait of the Apache Lucene project's homepage is that the search is actually powered by Google ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Mar-2009
Spring is here, and, as in Autumn, this means new products released and new version numbers ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Mar-2009
About a month ago, I reported that SurfRay was in bankruptcy. It has only taken a few weeks, but it seems the company has been revived. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Mar-2009
When enterprise search vendors say they're moving into Business Intelligence, I walk to my closet to take out my skepticism hat. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Mar-2009
Demokritos would be proud: if you look very closely, you'll see that Omniture's "SiteSearch" offering is actually composed of Atomz ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Mar-2009
The Dutch government has announced the new website www.rijksoverheid.nl, and has chosen Hippo CMS 7 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Feb-2009
We've had to wait a while: ever since Microsoft acquired Fast Search & Transfer almost exactly a year ago, the big question was what would happen to both FAST ESP and Microsoft's SharePoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Feb-2009
I've reported on the troubles at Danish search vendor Surfray before, but it seems that it is now curtains for the company ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Jan-2009
It has taken a while, but with a continuing investigation by the Norwegian police and restating of earnings over 2006/2007, Microsoft is cutting itself ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Jan-2009
Surfray, the company that acquired Mondosoft after the latter's bankruptcy, continues to encounter heavy weather itself. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Jan-2009
Perhaps not an image you'd want lingering in your mind, but yes, in software, you can get a Hippo in drag ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Jan-2009
I stumbled across an eWeek story about Cross-Language Enterprise Search, launched last month on Google Code. It's an add-on for the Google Appliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Dec-2008
Talking about SharePoint in Copenhagen today and yesterday reminded me of an interesting point ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Dec-2008
With recession clouds forming, there just has to be a silver lining. And thanks to Autonomy, I now know what it is: ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Nov-2008
While I was at jboye08, talking about enterprise search, Google snuck up from behind and surprised me ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Oct-2008
It's official: Fast Search & Transfer has been charged with accounting fraud ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Sep-2008
I came across this job opening, which roughly translates as, "Wanted: Tridion developer. Must know everything (and then some)." ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Sep-2008
If you're a regular reader of this blog -- or our various reports -- the HartmanEVENT 2008 in Utrecht, The Netherlands next week ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 3-Sep-2008
My girlfriend really doesn't like spiders, so I regularly get to roll up my newspaper and squash one. I'm not so much afraid of them, but that's starting to change: they can be lethal to a website ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2008
Google has announced its new Search Appliance, version 5.2. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Aug-2008
As the buzz has it, public website search engine Cuil is the new Google challenger ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jul-2008
WordPress version 2.6 was released two weeks ago, and as I reviewed 2.5 for the Enterprise Social Software Report 2008, I was eager to run it through its paces ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 5-Jul-2008
The Fast Search & Transfer news continues to keep me on my toes. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Jun-2008
One thing surprised me while evaluating hosted blog solutions for the Enterprise Social Software Report 2008: customers often indicate they'd like to switch to another service, but ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 3-Jun-2008
Apparently, when I previously wrote about Carrie's hand reaching out from the grave, the metaphor was too subtle. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-May-2008
I vividly remember being terrified as a child by the movie Carrie. The closing scene ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-May-2008
Searching information -- really, how hard can it be? So, why wouldn't you go out and get a search engine that's for free ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Mar-2008
CM Pros organized an event on the topic of enterprise search last week, with two case-study presentations and a fair bit of discussion among attendees. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Mar-2008
In the latest shuffle in enterprise search, SAS, known for business intelligence and analytics software, has announced today it acquired Teragram, natural language processing specialists ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Mar-2008
Web CMS vendor SDL Tridion has opened a new office in Germany, almost eight years to the date after their first attempt ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Jan-2008
With every vendor acquisition, and the uncertainty this brings for existing customers, I see self-perceived competitors step in with cut-rate offers to "upgrade" to their technology. But I was still surprised to see Google ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Jan-2008
Of course, with last year's upheaval at Fast Search & Transfer, there has been speculation of the company being acquired. And most were quick to agree that Microsoft would be a likely buyer ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Nov-2007
...though some (especially the larger, more disparate institutions) may be more equal than others ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Nov-2007
While writing reviews for the new Enterprise Search Report, I found myself frequently saying you should test the effectiveness of a given product against your own corpus of content, which is reiterated in the Report's "Advice" section. But I can't help ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Nov-2007
Microsoft has announced an update to the mouthful "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for Search 2007" -- which is now called "Search Server 2008", but is still the somewhat stripped-down version of the full search engine ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 26-Oct-2007
...and sold to the bidder in the back. According to Danish website Computerworld, enterprise search vendor Mondosoft, which is currently in liquidation, has been bought by fellow countrymen ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Oct-2007
According to the Danish financial newspaper Børsen, enterprise search vendor Mondosoft is now in liquidation (via Version2) ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Sep-2007
If you're in the market for search technology, you probably hear a lot about faceted browsing, guided navigation, refining, clustering, categorization, and so on. Many of today's search engines attempt to present more than just keyword search. That's fine if your content has high-quality structured metadata, but what if you throw in thousands of Word documents where the "author" is defined as John Doe? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Sep-2007
This week, Autonomy announced that German call center provider Quelle.Contact has chosen its IDOL product "...to power its new Content Management System (CMS)." Hold on -- wasn't Autonomy in the enterprise search business? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Aug-2007
Three weeks ago, Fast Search & Transfer announced a profit warning, readjusting its projected revenues to the $34 - $38 million range down from the $54 to $57 million the company expected only two months earlier. The company cited "changes in business practice with regard to the non-use of MoUs and the tightening of internal control procedures." ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Jul-2007
Both FAST and Microsoft have announced that they are "working together" on integrating FAST ESP with MOSS 2007. This has had analysts in a flurry, ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Jul-2007
Google has announced the Custom Search Business Edition, an ad-free version of their Custom Search, which allows small to medium businesses to use the search engine to index and query their website or specific other websites. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Apr-2007
In a surprising move, Convera Corporation sold its RetrievalWare solution - which accounts for most of Convera's revenue - to Norwegian enterprise search vendor Fast Search & Transfer. With dwindling sales ... Continue Reading
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