Enterprise Search News & Articles

It's time for enterprise search vendors to give up the numbers. 

If Google, Microsoft and Oracle are the only three vendors that made it into the Leaders Quadrant of this year’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search, Gartner has identified many other vendors in the Challengers quadrant that are jostling for position next time round.

In the year 2008, Microsoft acquired a technology company called Fast Search & Transfer ASA for a whopping US$ 1.2 billion. With this acquisition, Microsoft capitalized on the reputation Fast Search had built for itself in the field of enterprise search and tightened its grip on the workspace collaboration ecosystem by introducing the Fast Search feature in SharePoint 2013.

Can a strong hierarchy combined with a good search experience help employees access hard to find files?

The world is a mobile place, we all know it. So, is there a way for enterprises to search effectively when using a combination of mobile devices? 

Enterprise search services provider Search Technologies is releasing two new data connectors for Lotus Notes and Atlassian Confluence. Data connectors extract content from enterprise repositories for indexing into the search engine.

Enterprise search and content management provider Perceptive Software is upgrading its Enterprise Search and Workgroup Search applications to version 10.2.

My heart sinks when I see an email arrive that starts “We are about to start a search project and we need some assistance. Can you help?” At least with an email I have an opportunity to prepare a creative reply. When the telephone rings with the same question, then the challenge of delivering sad news in a kindly and constructive way is significantly greater. The sad news is that all enterprise search projects fail. Here are just a few of the reasons why.

In modern business and government, your data is your goldmine. 

Cloud computing content management and collaboration service provider NetDocuments has announced the release of NetDocuments 13.1, an update that boasts improved security and functionality features.

Do you suffer from IDF on a regular basis? IDF (Information Discovery Failure) usually occurs when the website or intranet information architecture fails to find the information required and you then have no option but to use the search application. You know before you start out that this is not going to be a good user experience.

Last year witnessed some real progress being made in the social business sector and this year promises more of the same.

When not trading barbs in Canadian and British slang on Twitter, Jed Cawthorne is busy evangelizing the truth about information management, enterprise content management and intranets to unbelievers. It's time you got to know Jed a little bit better, don't you think?

One of CMSWire's earliest contributors, Martin White is recognized as an expert on all things intranets and is passionate about enterprise search. He took some time out to answer a few questions so we could get to know him better.

Looking back, 2012 has been quite a year for search.