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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
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Oct-2011
I have just spent two days at the inaugural European Enterprise Search Summit in London, and left with much to think and rant about. For I listened to a series of consultants and vendors telling the audience that enterprise search was an imperative ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Oct-2011
Next week I will be speaking at the inaugural Enterprise Search Europe event in London 24/25th October, organized by our good friends at InfoToday and Martin White of Intranet Focus Ltd.
My talk will provide an analysis of the current European Search Market, drawn from our extensive research in this area. If you are ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Oct-2011
Oracle has announced its intention to buy Endeca, a major independent purveyor of Enterprise Search technology. It's not in the least bit surprising as Autonomy (arguably Endeca's biggest rival) had been in talks with Oracle prior to their acquisition by HP, and from that alone it was clear that Oracle was interested in acquiring advanced search technology ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Sep-2011
This past week HP fired their CEO Leo Apotheker, making him the third CEO in a row to part with HP prematurely. But of all the departures this one one is the least surprising by far. His announcement that he was to buy Autonomy for a staggering $10.3 Billion -- far more than anyone else figured the firm was worth -- and spin of its market leading PC division was surely the most spectacular act of self-immolation in a long time ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Sep-2011
Since HP decided to buy Autonomy for just over $10 Billion dollars, there has been a lot of discussion over the acquisitions that Autonomy itself made over the years to expand its portfolio of products and grow its revenues. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Aug-2011
Now that HP has announced its intent to buy Autonomy, the deal has come under a lot of scrutiny. One area though that few have yet to look at in detail -- and of particular interest to us as buyers' advocates -- is the whole topic of the IDOL search OEM business ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Aug-2011
I cannot say that the acquisition by HP of search giant Autonomy bodes well. Taking the parties' past histories into account, this simply doesn't seem to be a good long term match. Hence my advice is ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-May-2011
Well, it has been almost a year since Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch announced that his firm was to make a major acquisition. Today it happened. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-May-2011
I have been attending and speaking at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York this week, a good conference with many opportunities to rub shoulders and pick the brains of smart folk. But it's also an event that gives me a sense of deja-vu, since so little appears to change in the world of search. In fact I am fairly convinced that I could pull out a presentation from a decade back, brush off the dust, and present it with a straight face today ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Apr-2011
Today I was thinking about search tools -- and adjacent topics such as content/business analytics -- and all the different situations that today's enterprise search engines find themselves involved in ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-Mar-2011
I led a session at last week's Info360 event in Washington DC called "ECM & BI - a Shotgun Marriage." I was unsure about it from the get-go, as my fear was that I would spend 45 minutes essentially making a single point: that these two things are largely incompatible. What actually transpired was a bit more interesting ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 21-Mar-2011
It’s been only a little over year since EMC admitted its ineptitude in the realm of Web Content Management, and graciously invited FatWire to share the stage and play the role of a lovey-dovey partner. Today, another WCM vendor joined the affair -- SDL with its SDL Tridion Web CMS ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Nov-2010
We've released a number of updated product and vendor evaluations within our enterprise search & information access research stream this week. Apoorv Durga, Adriaan Bloem, and I are seeing many search vendors broadening their capabilities. But as usual, with more complexities come more potential implementation pitfalls and challenges ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 6-Sep-2010
If there is anything I follow just as closely if not more closely than the world of content management, it is the world of food. If I'm not talking to customers about DAM vendors or watching demos of the latest software, you can safely bet I'm either shopping for food, cooking, hosting friends for a lavish multi-course meal ... 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 Tony Byrne on 8-Jul-2010
I'll agree with mega-vendor Autonomy on one key point: Search technology is really important. But is it so important that search functionality should dominate your choice in a content management system? ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-May-2010
So onto number three in our family tree mini-series, Autonomy. As a Brit that lives in the US, I find Autonomy an interesting vendor to watch ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010
For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed ... 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 Kas Thomas on 13-Jan-2010
The search technology marketplace is getting much more specialized, with important implications for you the customer. There are at least two different ways that software can specialize: Functionally and Vertically ... 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
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