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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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

ECM Family Trees, Part 3 - Autonomy

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

Adriaan Bloem

Exalead keeps tabs on Sarkozy

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Google - unsuitable for the enterprise

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

Adriaan Bloem

Search fares well in sluggish economy

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

Kas Thomas

Search gets (even more) specialized

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

Adriaan Bloem

Searching for Terrorists

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

Kas Thomas

End of an era for Open Text?

Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Jan-2010

It's not often that a well-known vendor simply vacates the software space, effectively forfeiting a chunk of the market to competitors. But that's what Open Text has decided to do with its main enterprise search offering. ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Solr heads for an even sunnier future

Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Oct-2009

Anyone who's been watching the search space for a while knows that Apache Solr -- the popular open-source search server built on Lucene -- is the elephant in the room for a great many product-selection teams these days. It may be an exaggeration to say that most product-selection discussions begin with ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Recommind productizes its categorization engine

Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Aug-2009

Anyone who's been involved in a corporate-taxonomy project knows exactly how the terms "tedium," "tiresome," and "taxonomy" are related. Each derives from the other. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Making sense of CMS Watch....

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Jun-2009

At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge. ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Wolfram Alpha search engine: just the facts

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Why Open Text bought Vignette -- the real story

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-May-2009

This morning as I awoke at an ridiculously early hour (jet lag), to find my mailbox full of questions from journalists, commentators, and CMS Watch research subscribers asking for my take on the deal. ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Read me that file so I can index it, please

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

Tony Byrne

Autonomy, Interwoven, and the ongoing search-content management dance

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Mar-2009

Autonomy's acquisition of Interwoven formally closed yesterday ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Omniture SiteSearch has Atomz core

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The Legal Dept rescues Records Managers?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Feb-2009

You really can't envy the task of records managers in the public or private sector. Many are still tasked with archiving hard copies of ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Microsoft discloses plans for FAST ESP

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

Kas Thomas

What next for Interwoven?

Added By Kas Thomas on 23-Jan-2009

The announcement yesterday that Autonomy would buy Interwoven (a deal that should close in the second quarter of this year) has a number of interesting ramifications ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Autonomy acquires Interwoven - A first take

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jan-2009

Today Autonomy announced that they intend to buy Interwoven. ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

e-Discovery: selling umbrellas when it's raining?

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

 

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