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Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width - Big Data's emerging problem

Added By Matt Mullen on 8-May-2012

Big Data is may be a buzzword, yet it's certainly generating interesting discussions. Over the last month or two, I been party to a number of really interesting sessions - such as the CW500 event I mentioned previously - and with recent acquisitions in this space, the question is becoming less about whether Big Data is possible, and more about how it can be applied in the enterprise.

For me this raises the question of quality ... Continue Reading

IBM and Vivisimo - Long live the federation?

Added By Matt Mullen on 25-Apr-2012

Today IBM announced that it was acquiring search vendor Vivisimo for an undisclosed amount, purportedly to boost Big Blue's capabilities in Big Data ... Continue Reading

A portrait of the artist as a metadata manager

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 24-Apr-2012

Art helps us to understand the world we live in. We can in fact think of art as metadata about the world (and artists as metadata experts of the human condition). Art is also ahead in showing us the path to the future, and digital art may provide some clues to the future in the content management world ... Continue Reading

Start Your Content Migration Planning Early

Added By Apoorv Durga on 23-Apr-2012

Many IT projects require some sort of content migration, but we often find that many customers give scant attention to migration planning. It's almost always considered an activity that can wait until the end ... Continue Reading

Free Webinar - How Cloud, Mobile, and Social Will Change the World of Information Management

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-Apr-2012

Cloud, Mobile, and Social are three of the most common buzzwords in today's IT lexicon. The words are here to stay, but will the underlying concepts really bring about fundamental changes to the way we manage information? Or, are they more hype than substance? ... Continue Reading

2012 Enterprise Search Market Analysis - Do we now live in a Solr-system?

Added By Matt Mullen on 11-Apr-2012

We've recently published our "2012 Enterprise Search Market Analysis." After 2011's raft of acquisitions, this year promises to be another interesting one for search customers: ... Continue Reading

Join us at Internet World, London

Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Apr-2012

My UK colleague Matt Mullen and I will be hosting three sessions at the upcoming Internet World conference in London, April 24 - 26. ... Continue Reading

Are you an Intelligent Customer? Lessons from HMRC

Added By Matt Mullen on 3-Apr-2012

This month's CW500 presentation in London was delivered by Phil Pavitt, CIO at HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the UK tax man), who described a programme within his department to drive cost savings within IT. To provide some perspective on the IT estate that exists within HMRC: it is the largest in Europe and the 15th largest globally, controlling in excess of 1b transactions, totalling more that £1.2t in payments through the government banking system. (This is apparently larger than HSBC performs, globally.)

Historically IT in UK government doesn't have the greatest of reputations ... Continue Reading

Digital workplace and enterprise architecture -- two sides to same coin

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Mar-2012

A confluence of trends is elevating the concept of the "Digital Workplace." Much of the current discussion has centered around what a digital workplace mean for traditional intranets, emerging social collaboration spaces, and aging transactional systems.

Those are important topics, but I think an even bigger to-do for enterprises is to bring the right skill sets to bear. One key skill set to engage here is enterprise architecture ... Continue Reading

Big Data: Does Variety, Volume, and Velocity really deliver Veracity?

Added By Matt Mullen on 12-Mar-2012

Having been rather cynical on the subject of Big Data, it was reassuring to see a full-house at a recent Computer Weekly "CW500 Club" gathering dedicated to the subject.  Nevertheless, I came away with more questions than answers about the value of this topic right now for business users. ... Continue Reading

UK Government Cloudstore - not yet ready for prime time

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2012

The IT press here in the UK have heralded the remarkable launch of the government's G-Cloud Cloudstore. The timing was certainly impressive: In just four short weeks this online services directory and procurement application went from contract to launch.

Yet I remain a bit puzzled as to why the service has gone live at all, since ... Continue Reading

Big Data plus Enterprise Search equals Big Enterprise Disappointment?

Added By Matt Mullen on 20-Feb-2012

This week, whilst I sat on one of London's First Capital Connect's delightful 1950's railway carriages traveling to the RSG UK office, I imagined a conversation a decade or so hence....

"So, Uncle Matt, what do you remember most about 2012? Was it the London Olympics?"

"Well my impertinent nephew, 2012 was in fact the year we learned about 'Big Data'." ... Continue Reading

Matt Mullen joins our Analyst Team

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Feb-2012

Today I am very happy to share that joining me in the UK office of RSG is new analyst Matt Mullen.  A self-confessed nerd, Matt has been working with online and information management technologies for almost 20 years, dating himself awkwardly by admitting he started out with text based browsers in the early 1990s ... Continue Reading

Three lessons across ten years of content technologies

Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Feb-2012

Late last year we marked our tenth year in business, which seemed like a good time to reflect on what has changed across the landscape of content, web, and collaboration technologies -- and what has not ... Continue Reading

Alfresco Version 4 is Buzzword Compliant

Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Feb-2012

Last week open source document management vendor Alfresco released Version 4 of its (commercially-supported) enterprise edition package. As we've come to expect from Alfresco, it's long on buzzwords and interesting new directions, but a bit short on functional niceties and architectural continuity ... Continue Reading

Updated Technology Vendor Map

Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jan-2012

We've just updated our longstanding "subway map" for 2012.

Biggest changes have come around acquisitions (e.g., HP), and ... Continue Reading

Why Enterprise Search is not in the limelight

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Jan-2012

In the enterprise search community there has been a lot of talk recently about the lack of deep coverage by major analyst firms such as Gartner and Forrester.  Many feel slighted and believe that their industry is a large and thriving one, one that is unjustly ignored ... Continue Reading

2012 Technology Predictions

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Dec-2011

It's that time of year for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2012 predictions, where we try to predict what the future holds in the technology world ... Continue Reading

How accurate were our 2011 predictions?

Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2011

Like all analyst firms, every year-end we make predictions. I think we're fairly unique, though, in going back to see how our earlier predictions fared. Let's see whether our predictions for 2011 actually panned out. These were the twelve predictions we made in December, 2010 ... Continue Reading

Storage Wars in the Cloud

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 17-Nov-2011

OK, I'll admit it. One of my guilty pleasures in recent years has been the American television show, Storage Wars ... Continue Reading

New evaluation of taxonomy management tools

Added By Stephanie Lemieux on 16-Nov-2011

You the customer can choose from among several fully-featured taxonomy management tools, yet each vendor has tackled the problem of managing vocabularies from a different angle. So how do you figure out which one is right for your context? ... Continue Reading

Oracle-Endeca, HP-Autonomy, and Coveo follow the customer

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Nov-2011

Enterprise Search engines can be divided neatly into two categories: those optimized for website search and those optimized for searching across internal information silos. Today the gap between the two is opening ever wider ... Continue Reading