Enterprise Search News & Articles

On Sunday, I attend the “Search Patterns: Tangible Futures for Discovery” session at SXSW hosted by Peter Morville, whose library and information science background really helps him to understand how things should be managed, so that they can be easily found.

He set the stage of the session with the metaphor – bad search can be like the Winchester Mystery house.

They acquired Funnelback back in June, now Squiz (news, site) has taken the next step and integrated the enterprise search engine into it Web CMS MySource Matrix

Enterprise search is a boom area and Bitrix (news, site) offers its new solution for finding data spread throughout an enterprise's online assets.

Being selected as a finalist in the 2010 CODiE awards wasn't enough for Coveo (news, site), they just had to go out and make some more improvements to their enterprise search engine? What's new? A little bit of Enterprise 2.0, Outlook and Analytics.

SharePoint 2007 Search (news, site) is not often talked about in the realms of "enterprise search". But used appropriately, it can bring order to document chaos -- as I found when my company implemented SharePoint as our enterprise search solution. Of course a search engine alone will not deliver a state of information management nirvana. But implemented wisely SharePoint can make your enterprise information a saner thing to manage. Here are some tips from the field.

With search such a hot topic these days for both enterprise content management and web content management, it's probably not such a stretch that a provider of unified information access solutions, like Attivio (news, site), is doing so well.

So, Autonomy (news, site) had a pretty good 2009. No surprise there, considering the company ate up every bit of Interwoven around this time last year.

In its recent research, CMS Watch (news, site) found that enterprise search buyers are increasingly turning to specialized search vendors, as they struggle to find the right solution.

CMS Watch's Search & Information Access subscription service shows specialized focus in specific environments (Microsoft, SAP, Oracle) or verticals (e.g. Recommind in legal sector).

While evaluating 23 enterprise search vendors (10- to 18-page comparative evaluations per each), the researchers also found that:

• Despite improvements in SharePoint search, Microsoft-focused organizations are still considering other alternatives (Coveo, SurfRay or ISYS).
• Rapidly growing repositories are making enterprise search harder.
• Larger vendors struggle to keep up with specialized search vendors (Sinequa, dtSearch and Vivisimo), who are quickly releasing connectors to various repositories.

The updated Search & Information Access report also looks into FAST, SharePoint search in 2010, Autonomy’s IDOL platform, open source Apache Lucene and Solar, and offers an updated industry "cross-check" chart with 2010 product developments and vendor changes.

You can either get a free sample or buy the full report here.

A company getting a lot of attention these days is Attivio. And not just because it's packed with former FAST search executives, but because it offers a solution that will provide you a 360 degree view of your customer by bringing together enterprise search and business intelligence/data warehousing information. It's called Unified Information Access and it helps you understand exactly what your customer is saying. 

CMSWire spoke with Andrew McKay, Senior Vice President and MaryAnne Sinville, VP Marketing at Attivio to get a view into the world of Unified Information Access and a look at the Active Intelligence Engine.

Advanced search technology developer Coveo (news, site) has just announced that it is making a beta version of its new Coveo Expresso search solution available for free in a move that is sure to please the small business market.

Coveo Expresso Beta gives up to 50 users the ability to search up to one million desktop and email files as well as up to 100,000 intranet documents and can be installed by a company’s IT department -- says Coveo -- within an hour.

Another attempt to track all that scary unstructured content lurking in the corners of every self-respecting enterprise content management system is the recently released, customizable Zoogma search engine.

If it actually does what it says it does, Zoogma targets buried market and document intelligence as well as integrates with other data sources to collect, analyze and produce the most relevant data in response to search queries.

It does this by finding clues in unstructured text and making those clues findable, its developers, Virginia-based Cormine Data Intelligence says.

KMWorld (news, site) has dropped its list of Trend Setting companies for 2009 and there are more than a few familar faces making the list.

Enterprise search seems to be a hot topic today. PolySpot (news, site), a French company that provides such solutions, recently announced that they’re going to be collaborating with the ever-popular eZ Systems (news, site).

Like several other solutions on the enterprise search block, PolySpot's technology filters through numerous types of resources including secured files stored either within the enterprise or externally. By hooking up with eZ Systems, users can access eZ Publish's digital content management resources through the PolySpot interface. Seemingly big fans of the open source CMS, this partnership also nicely highlights PolySpot’s recent eZ Publish connector.

"We are very excited about this collaboration,” said Roland Benedetti, vice president Product Management, eZ Systems. “Simply connecting eZ Publish with PolySpot Enterprise Search represents an exciting opportunity for our common users. They will then be able to benefit from a comprehensive and coherent information access system on which IT departments can rely on.”

For more information on Polyspot, check out their homepage here (you can switch it to English). For the latest goings-on with eZ, stick with us.

Coveo (news, site), a player in advanced search technology, wants to make your e-mail life easier.

Their new enterprise e-mail search tool aims to makes mincemeat of traditional desktop only solutions by enabling employees to search all e-mail and attachments, regardless of where they are stored, or even if the user is online.

Just about six month's after the last release, emagiC CMS.Net (news, site) hits with a new and improved version that is now pretty much browser-independent and offers full WYSIWYG editing.