Enterprise Search News & Articles

Many enterprise companies have greatly benefited from the evolution of Apache’s open source Lucene and Solr enterprise search solutions. With over 4,000 installations of Lucene and names such as Netflix, Alfresco and MySpace using it, it’s easy to understand the impact that is has had.

As with many open source projects though, there was no guaranteed support. There was nowhere to go for quick answers, easy customization and troubleshooting. Until now that is. Lucid Imagination aims to solve to issues that surround the fastest growing enterprise search solutions today.

In a down economy businesses need to be more concerned than ever about potential litigation costs and risks. Next week HP brings you a webinar covering best practices for proactive e-discovery (electronic discovery) by utilizing good records management. Aimed at lowering litigation costs and mitigating risks, this webinar is a must for legal teams, upper management or any business concerned about potential electronic discovery issues.

The act of initiating a query via search functionality is no longer seen as a magical, mythical process. According to a recent CMS Watch report, The Search and Information Access Report 2009, enterprise search technology is no longer perceived as being a stealth and secretive operation.

After having interviewed enterprise search customers from around the world to evaluate 20 solutions in the marketplace, it was evident that because of modern search offerings with the availability of improved administrative tools and APIs, the aura of search technologies has been demystified.

When David Girouard, vice president and General Manager of Google enterprise, said the Google Search Appliance has “had a vision to make search inside of business as simple and effective as searching on Google.com” he wasn’t lying.

And with the recent slew of upgrades to GSA, we think it’s safe to say the line between that vision and reality has blurred considerably.

Wondering what’s going to happen to the ECM industry next year? AIIM offers you its look at the upcoming ECM trends.

Facilitating compliance and eDiscovery will be two of the top IT business problems, if not the top problems, says AIIM. Add to that the current economic conditions and cost-cutting initiatives as a top priority, and you’ve got yourself a (free) must-see Webinar.

AIIM and IBM invite you to join them for a discussion about the following trends and more to help you plan for a successful 2009:

• Compliance and eDiscovery: Enterprise content management investments will increase to offset external litigation support costs.
• SharePoint will continue to explode: Get organized or pay for it down the road.
• ECM as a shared service.
• Searching, or rather finding, information will continue to improve.
• Renewed interest in business process management (BPM)

When: December 10, 2008, at 2:00 PM ET
What: Webinar on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in 2009
Where: Registration is open here

There are a number of organizations today that use the Google Search Appliance. And why not, it’s a solution in a box that is relatively easy to use. You buy a machine, plug it in and then configure your setting appropriately. Very nice.

But what if you aren’t sure the Google Appliance is the right solution for you? How do you test before you buy? Google now offers you the ability to do just that with a virtual edition of the Google Search appliance.

Simplexo is on a mission to make real-time enterprise search simple, efficient and functional. Ingres is on a path to make open source databases manageable and supportable. Combine the two, and you have a super-fast and secure method of searching, accessing and managing database information.

Simplexo, an open source enterprise search oriented company, has recently announced a new and unique enterprise search tool that allows searches of structured and unstructured content in real-time.

The 12th annual KMWorld and Intranets Conference and Exhibition is scheduled for September 23 – 25, 2008, in San Jose, California. This year’s theme, Driving Enterprise Innovation and Achievement: User-Focused Tools and Practices, emphasizes the myriad of new ways to communicate, collaborate and exchange knowledge within the enterprise.

The event will also cover such hot topics as ECM, intranet and portal strategies, enterprise 2.0, knowledge sharing, enterprise search and much more.

Google has upped its game in the enterprise search sandbox by launching a new search appliance, capable of scaling to up to 10 million documents in a single box.

Hot Banana is a web content management system (Web CMS) with a heavy emphasis placed on web marketing and content optimization, but with a full range of core content management capabilities which attract customers with a broad range of needs.

The CMS is a part of and integrated with the Lyris suite of marketing solutions, most notably with EmailLabs.

The Lyris marketing suite — following a slew of takeovers of top players in core marketing technologie — has now been formally packaged into Lyris HQ, which is comprised of Hot Banana, EmailLabs (email marketing), ClickTracks (analytics), EmailAdvisor (email campaign analysis and toolset) and BidHero (bid-management).

Vorsite Corp, a Microsoft Partner who creates connectors between Microsoft SharePoint and other Enterprise Content Management Systems, has just announced the release of a set of new Search Connector Technologies for MOSS and EMC Documentum.

At the Enterprise Search Summit in San Jose, Microsoft unveiled it’s newest Search product - Microsoft Search Server 2008. Right along with the full version, they have offered a free version called Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.

A new study released by Avanade, Inc., a global IT firm, reveals that fewer than half of Stateside and Canadian businesses — 45 and 49 percent, respectively — are satisfied with the results of their existing collaborative and communication technologies.

These include intranet solutions, email and video conferencing services.

Join us this week for what red-blooded techies sadistically hope will be the catfight of the year. This Wednesday at the Gilbane Conference in SF, seniors at Microsoft and Google debate enterprise search and information access.