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Blog posts about IDOL Server

Kashyap Kompella

What should you make of vendor market share leadership claims?

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

Kashyap Kompella

Should Autonomy customers head for the exit door? Should prospects stay away?

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

Tony Byrne

What Technology Customers Can Learn from the HP-Autonomy Debacle

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

Matt Mullen

Autonomy - from Autocracy to Anonymity ?

Added By Matt Mullen on 25-May-2012

For those of us that watch the industry closely, Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's imminent departure from the newly merged HP/Autonomy entity comes as no great surprise. However this lack of surprise isn't for the reasons that many people would assume: ... Continue Reading

Matt Mullen

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

Matt Mullen

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Not coming clean about Enterprise Search

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Enterprise Search London - talking HP and Autonomy...

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Oracle acquires Endeca - our first take....

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

HP and Autonomy - a marriage made in hell?

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Understanding Autonomy's Family Tree

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Another look at the Autonomy IDOL OEM business

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

HP plus Autonomy equals Buyers Beware

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Autonomy makes yet another acquisition

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Enterprise Search - the best and worst of times

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Enterprise Search Bloat

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

ECM - from search to analytics

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

Irina Guseva

SDL - EMC - FatWire -- The Great Love Triangle?

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

Theresa Regli

Updated search vendor / tool evaluations

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

Theresa Regli

The Ethics of Software Criticism

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

Adriaan Bloem

What Exactly is IDOL, Anyway?

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

Adriaan Bloem

SharePoint's FAST 2010 is not as cheap as you might think

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

Tony Byrne

Don't ogle search if you really want content management

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

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