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Added By Irina Guseva on 5-Mar-2013
While I still find myself incapable of giving a satisfying answer to those asking the question, “What’s the best enterprise search engine?” -- in the same vein with “What’s the best CMS?” -- I have to admit that there’s one that stands out based on its activity and progress in the past few years, particularly when it comes to application search. And the name to the search engine is ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-Feb-2013
Every so often, though, it is important to take a step back from the details and look at the more macro-trends that are facing today's business and technology decision-makers ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 21-Feb-2013
Where's the fine print? You can creatively define a category that eliminates everyone else and preside over a parallel universe in which only you reside. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 6-Feb-2013
Salesforce.com has acquired EntropySoft, a French content integration and migration vendor. Some observers have speculated this is a way for Salesforce to enter the Enterprise Content Management marketplace. I think a closer look will reveal a different rationale ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Jan-2013
Here's the latest edition of our famous vendor subway map. With this latest iteration, we add the Cloud File Sharing marketplace, a.k.a., the beige line.
We also account for other vendor additions and subtractions -- typically via mergers and acquisitions, such as the ones that finally put Oracle firmly on the purple line ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 10-Jan-2013
Today we updated our Enterprise Search evaluation stream, specifically with updates to two key platforms ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Dec-2012
Every year we make predictions about the coming annum, and every year, we go back and see how our predictions actually fared. See, for example, our assessment of our 2011 predictions.
Below I'll evaluate how our 2012 predictions (from December, 2011) held up ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 13-Dec-2012
If you've not seen the UK show (or the local variants that exist in the US, Australia, and Germany), one of the regular features is to set a timed lap in a vehicle as part of a review. Same track, same(ish) driver, and therefore a reasonable comparison on performance.
There are some lessons here for technology buyers. ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 11-Dec-2012
Big Data has become simultaneously 2012's most onerous moniker of hype and seemingly a shortcut to raising investment ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 7-Dec-2012
If you're undertaking a selection of a WCXM or a DAM system, or any other piece of enterprise technology for that matter, you'll want to see a demo, to witness first-hand all the bells and whistles ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2012
Yesterday Jane McConnell shared a nice tidbit from her (excellent) survey of global intranet managers, that "40% of large enterprises believe in the digital workplace."
I believe this is great progress ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Dec-2012
Each year around this time, all the Real Story Group analysts get together to partake in some crystal-ball gazing about where the content technology market will head in the next year.
Here are our collective predictions for 2013: ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Nov-2012
Identifying and selecting the right KM tools can prove a decisive factor in your success ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 30-Nov-2012
RSG advisory customers know that each new version of any technology platform carries both the promise of a better world and the agony of the upgrade. SharePoint 2013 is no exception ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 29-Nov-2012
The search market has similar, if distinct challenges to address right now ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Nov-2012
I note with interest that OpenText is offering a a "software trade-in" for Autonomy customers. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 26-Nov-2012
The recent controversy does not change the fundamentals of the Autonomy family of products nor the company DNA. HP appears to be doing its due diligence after the fact. But as a potential customer, you’re well advised not to leave your due diligence until after your purchase. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 22-Nov-2012
Here is a quick take on M&A dynamics and the questions around the price HP paid for Autonomy, which are central to the controversy... ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 21-Nov-2012
This is the time of year when we start to look back and reflect on the past twelve months and begin to look forward to what's next. As some you know, in addition to our premium research and associated advisory sessions, some of our subscribers ask us to assist them in a more hands-on consultative engagement ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Nov-2012
The short version of my argument is this: I believe Autonomy's impressive financial results (at least those reported) served to conceal key warning signs about its aging flagship search technology, doped-up sales strategies, warped internal culture, and growing disdain for its own customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Nov-2012
The whole affaire, as well as a recent request I received from a Digital Asset Management vendor, reminded me that the world of technology analysis is no less shifty -- it's just that the attempted manipulation of the system for personal and business gain is of a different nature ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Nov-2012
Which brings me to MarkLogic, the XML repository vendor with some nice technology in search of a general-purpose use case. MarkLogic has been successful, but never took off ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 23-Oct-2012
Updates to five of the vendors we cover in our Enterprise Search Report have just been posted for subscribers to that stream.
General theme: the search market continues to try to find a way of avoiding the path of the juggernaut that is Apache's Solr/Lucene project ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 1-Oct-2012
In just two weeks my colleagues Tony Byrne, Apoorv Durga, Matt Mullen, and I will be gathering in Washington D.C. to share some of our latest research findings at three special events held in conjunction with the annual KM World conference. We're looking forward to meeting with many of you ... Continue Reading
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