Enterprise search: A commodity in the making?
23 Dec 2004
Over the past decade, enterprise-search technologies have experienced significant evolution, with myriad tools and complex algorithms now part of the corporate mainstream. But as enterprise-search tools start to become commoditised, established vendors will have to continue to innovate if they want to compete on functionality rather than price. By Jason Schofield.
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News: Enterprise search
19 Dec 2006
Enterprise search supplier Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) has acquired London-based Platefood Limited, a provider of online search and search-based advertising services to media firms, for $10.7 million in cash.
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Workshop: The enterprise search roadmap
25 Jul 2006
What are the factors to consider when choosing and configuring an enterprise-search system? Neil Bradley explores the answers.
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News: FAST debuts ‘intelligent’ enterprise search
22 Feb 2006
Fast Search and Transfer (FAST) has moved away from the ‘Google model’ of keyword-based search with its latest enterprise release, which it claims is its most intelligent and scalable platform to date.
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Workshop: Improving enterprise search
24 Nov 2005
If money were no object then we would all employ full-time information architects. We would have dedicated teams of people maintaining and enforcing our taxonomies. And we would have technical staff spending all day refining and tuning our in-house search technology.
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KM Europe 2004 showcase
2 Nov 2004
As part of the countdown to KM Europe 2004, which takes place in Amsterdam from the 8-10 November, ei magazine talks to search-engine giant Google about its plans for the event.
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Q&A: Fish4
19 Dec 2006
Fish4, the homes, cars and job-ads website, has recently made a big investment in enterprise-search technology that will serve as a launch pad for a host of new products and services. Enterprise Information spoke to Fish4's chief technology officer Richard Yeo about the company’s mission to deliver the best possible end-user experience.
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Verity rolls out ‘disruptive’ strategy
14 Sep 2005
In a volatile climate for enterprise-search companies, market pioneer Verity has come out fighting with an ambitious strategy that CEO Anthony Bettencourt hopes will prove “disruptive”.
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Trendtracker: cheaper, simpler search solutions to come?
31 Aug 2004
Could less eventually mean more?
As enterprises watch chunks of their budget being spent on expensive and comprehensive search and retrieval solutions, research shows people are still finding the task difficult. Meanwhile, writes Harry Wilson, some corporate names you might recognise are slowly beginning to edge into the market with web and desktop-based search solutions designed to be simple, cheap and effective.
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Safer search for SMEs
23 Dec 2004
Software company ISDD has thrown a lifeline to SMEs drowning in a sea of unstructured data. It claims to offer enterprise-search technology as good as or better than big name rivals Autonomy and Google for up to half the price.
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News: Google unveils OneBox architecture
1 Jun 2006
Consumer search giant Google has strengthened its commitment to the enterprise search market with the recent launch of the latest version of the Google Search Appliance (version 4.6).
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Google celebrates 7th birthday with renewed vigour
18 Oct 2005
Search-engine giant Google celebrated its seventh birthday in September 2005 with a further assault on the enterprise-search space.
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Seek and you shall find?
20 Jul 2004
Search and retrieval software may be the linchpin of an effective enterprise, but it is only as useful as the content it trawls, writes Claudine Beaumont. If information, data and documents are poorly organised or incorrectly archived, it won’t matter how powerful the search engine is – you won’t be able to find what you’re looking for.
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News: Oracle launches new search tool
30 Mar 2006
Oracle is planning a major entry into search technology with the announcement of Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a search engine intended to make business information available to authorised users while rigorously enforcing corporate security policies.
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Trend tracker: Faceted navigation
14 Nov 2005
Current media darling Google has already indexed more than eight-billion web pages but many more are believed to be hidden in corporate intranets and databases. It is thought that if all of these were indexed, the world-wide web would be 500 times larger than it is today.
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In brief
18 Jan 2006
Storage market sees vendor collaboration... Ardentia adds to enterprise search offering... Survey highlights productivity benefits of IM... and more.
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Autonomy adds weight with Verity
14 Nov 2005
UK-based search software supplier Autonomy has agreed a deal to buy its larger rival Verity in a surprise $500m move.
Verity is more than twice the size of Autonomy by revenue and the purchase will create the world’s biggest search software provider, with combined sales of $227m and 16,000 customers.
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Autonomy joins desktop search battle
23 Dec 2004
Searching for information held on corporate networks, the web and on desktops is a time-consuming and frustrating task that occupies much of the working day for many employees. With that in mind, enterprise-search specialist Autonomy launched a new product in November 2004, IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, aimed at speeding up and improving the accuracy of that process.
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In brief
14 Nov 2005
The latest industry news in brief
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Siebel FAST-forwards its search capability
13 May 2005
Fast Search and Transfer (FAST) has announced a multi-year partnership with business-applications software provider, Siebel.
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Verity boosts enterprise offering with desktop search
5 Aug 2005
Verity has acquired the intellectual property assets of desktop-search specialist 80-20 Software, a privately-held software developer based in Australia.
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In brief
18 Oct 2005
The latest industry news in brief.
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In brief
5 Aug 2005
Oracle boosts its search capabilities...Proofpoint advances messaging security...Gartner places IBM in magic quadrant...plus more industry news in brief.
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Q&A: National Archives
8 Nov 2006
It is now more than three years since the UK’s National Archives first launched its digital archive. But as David Thomas, the organisation’s head of government and technology, tells Enterprise Information, the innovation continues.
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Q&A: London Borough of Camden
25 Jul 2006
The London Borough of Camden has implemented search technology to give council employees and local residents quick and easy access to online information about its activities and services. Enterprise Information spoke to Ainga Pillai, the council’s corporate applications manager.
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Workshop: Social networking
28 Nov 2006
Wikis are all the rage, with many companies implementing wiki software to help staff better share their knowledge and information. However, like all implementations, there is a right way – and a wrong way – to go about it. By Mark Choate
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Cover story: Intelligent decision making
15 Mar 2005
Business intelligence is storming up the corporate agenda and becoming an important component of IT budgets. But BI projects must be aligned with the strategic objectives of the organisation. Failing this, companies will reap only a fraction of the benefits of their BI deployments. By Tracey Caldwell.
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