Enterprise Search

Market Trends in Embedded Search

Are you trying to find an embedded search solution that meets your users’ needs and your specific application requirements?  Have you tried to embed search into your application, but found it difficult and expensive to customize and integrate? Have you already embedded a solution only to find that it lacks the performance and functionality your customers are demanding? Would you like to learn about how you can cost-effectively give your customers access to search that has been architected for ISVs, offers value-added features, and scales?

View a brief video interview about the webinar with Miles Kehoe.

If so, we’d like to invite you to join our webinar, “12 Leading Insights on Embedded Search for ISVs.” Learn about:
•    Major Market Trends for Embedded Search
•    Key Challenges Facing ISVs with Embedded Search
•    5 Most Important Embedded Search Requirements
•    What Works and What Doesn’t
•    Overview of Exalead CloudView OEM Edition
Moderator
•    Eric Rogge, Senior Director of Marketing, Exalead

Featured Speakers
•    Ranjeet Vidwans, VP of OEM, Exalead
•    Miles Kehoe, President, New Idea Engineering

Date/Time
•    Friday, December 5, 2008 at 11am PST

Registration:
To register for the webinar, please click here.

To download the Exalead whitepaper "The ISV Challenge: Satisfying the Demand for Better Search,” 

The Future of Search is Simpler

Gary Szukalski, VP of Field Marketing at Autonomy,  gave a keynote speech at ESS West 2008 entitled "Meaning Based Computing" notable for its lack of vision. He was a replacement for Stouffer Egan, Autonomy's CEO, whose slides he likely used. The talk detailed the difficulties inherent in enterprise search, especially how challenging it can be to understand the full meaning of a word like "dog" or "shred" without context. We live in this world, we understand the difficulty.  While his talk outlined the direction of automatic categorization, alerts, profiles, dynamic and real-time clustering and schemas, it left me wanting real vision and a roadmap from the industry leader. He never rose above the complexity of information processing. 

In a sharp contrast, Google provided more vision in their 10-minute lunch pitch than Autonomy's same old key note speech. Google provided a clear vision: you can be up and operational in one day and search everything.  Simple to use and simple to administer.  In 2008, Google is not the naive implementation that we saw 6 years ago: they have made real progress toward their vision. While other companies are marching to that vision. Dieselpoint's OpenPipeline, Endeca's simple administrative controls, Fast's navigators, Autonomy's categorization, Google is providing the vision. The future is simpler and usable by everyone on the enterprise. We have along way to go - but we can change the business world.  We are moving closer to the vision of many sources of data providing insight and increasing the pace of business decisions.

Some interesting Enterprise search events the week of June 2nd

There are two really interesting events happening next week that might be of interest.

First, Leslie Owens of Forrester is presenting a the Forrester Wave Enterprise Search platform webinar  on Monday morning, June 2 at 8AM. There is a nominal fee, but I think you will find it interesting.

Then, Leslie and several other interesting speakers will be at a free one day seminar hosted by FAST on Wednesday the 4^th in Redwood Shores California at the Sofitel Hotel. In addition to Leslie Owens' presentation on 'Technology Populism', speakers will include Jeff Spataro of Microsoft; Hadley Reynolds of FAST; and senior IT managers from Cisco and National Instruments.  Hadley, by the way, speaks and writes on Search Centers of Excellence and other innovations in the application of enterprise search. Be sure to register for the free FAST Search event.

NIE Joins Gilbane Panel

Miles Kehoe and Mark Bennett join industry thought leaders on "Thinking about Enterprise Search the Right Way" panel at Gilbane San Francisco Conference on June 18-20, 2008.  Gilbane Group provides up to date information on content management, enterprise search, localization, collaboration, wikis, and publishing.  They provide insight on the impact of these technology to your business.

You can join the discussion with industry experts from leading technology, enterprise IT, analyst, and consulting firms by registering at  http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html.  Early registration ends May 16, 2008, so sign up now! 

  Plan to attend:

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                      Gilbane San Francisco Conference

                               June 18-20, 2008

  Register at http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html

 

EST-3: Thinking about Enterprise Search the Right Way  http://gilbanesf.com/conference_descriptions.html
In our enterprises we search for content for many reasons. It is what we do with that content that creates business value or not. Too often, organizations discover that the content workers require to perform at their highest levels is not found. This may be because the search implementation(s) are not delivered to the desktop to fit easily into workflow, or is hard to find. It can also be that required content never gets included as a retrieval option. We will look to some experts for guidance to establish search tools in the ways that fit how workers seek information and find actionable content to better their work output.

Moderator: Lynda Moulton, Lead Analyst, Enterprise Search, Gilbane Group
Speakers:
Jean Bedord, Findability & Search Consultant, Econtent Strategies,
Search for the Enterprise: Creating Findability
Mark Bennett, CTO, New Idea Engineering,
Protecting Confidential Information within the Corporate Search Box
Mark Morehead, Senior VP, MuseGlobal
UWire: A Case Study in Using Search to Streamline Editorial Processes in the Enterprise

 

Enterprise 2.0 Boston

We hope to see you at  ...

                      Enterprise 2.0

                          Boston

                   June 10-12, 2008

Click here to register for Enterprise 2.0 at http://www.enterprise2conf.com/

 
  Plan to attend NIE session:

Best Practices for Securing Enterprise Search

Although this session provides technical details it also offers a glimpse at the issues behind enterprise search for those less familiar with the subject. The challenge is to provide easy access to data and content employees need while still protecting sensitive information. Join us as we share best practices for delivering secure yet comprehensive results for leading search engines.

  Speaker - Mark Bennett, Vice President, New Idea Engineering, Inc.

  Speaker - Mike Kehoe, CEO, New Idea Engineering, Inc.