Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Jul-2010
If you're running a SAP NetWeaver Portal -- presumably since you've bought into SAPs infrastructure -- you may have discovered it's not the most ideal of platforms to actually publish content on ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Jul-2010
After a long spending spree -- pretty much on anything XML -- SDL has now acquired small Dutch vendor Xopus ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 9-Jun-2010
Dassault Systèmes, a major product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor, has announced the acquisition of enterprise search vendor Exalead. Which of course leads to the two usual questions with any acquisition ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 14-Apr-2010
Politics aside, I've always enjoyed watching the occasional French president's speech on television. Where U.S. presidents act, well, presidential, and the Queen will be regal, a French head of state is much more expansive. And nowadays, we can also compare another style: on-line presence ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Feb-2010
At times I get the feeling the content technologies aren't affected by the economic downturn. Some of the vendors we cover have come out with early reports on their performance over 2009, and so far the news is good ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Jan-2010
For those vendors with solid profits, it's a buyer's market. SDL, parent company of such products as Tridion, Trados, Trisoft, and XySoft, announced the acquisition of Dutch e-commerce vendor Fredhopper today. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Jan-2010
Regular readers of this blog know that Surfray's MondoSearch and Ontolica (search for SharePoint) products have a bit of a checkered past. First vendor MondoSoft went bankrupt; it was then sold to SurfRay; then SurfRay went bankrupt; then it was restructured to SurfRay 2009. But I'm happy to report that the Danish company now seems to be doing a lot better ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Jan-2010
What if finding that one bit of information is of vital importance? Well, it may not have been the main story angle of last month's attempted terrorist attack, but we've certainly heard a lot about how good information management might have prevented the attempted airline bombing. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Dec-2009
Maybe it's because a Google Appliance is an actual, physical machine, and not just an intangible piece of software. But the question that keeps popping up is "can you actually keep it running once the 2-year license runs out?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Nov-2009
Last year I blogged about several free enterprise search solutions, and it looks Coveo is now bringing coffee to the free beer party I described back then. A couple of weeks ago the vendor announced "Expresso," "your free entry to enterprise search." ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Oct-2009
Google released a fairly significant version 6.2 of its appliance today. There's a very corporate YouTube video summarizing the main novelties, and a quirky one about the one spotlighted for this release -- the "Self Learning Scorer," which uses indirect feedback from clickthroughs to improve ranking ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Oct-2009
If you're following the content management space closely, but aren't a Java wizard, the JSR (Java Specification Request) numbers can become a bit of a puzzle ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jul-2009
A lot of my time is spent evaluating technology, and I have a confession to make: the licensing is one of the least spectacular bits to review. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jun-2009
In a clip on YouTube, an interviewer asks passersby in Times Square what a browser is.The surprising result: many think it's a search engine ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jun-2009
A few months ago, I blogged about ISYS offering their document converter filters as a separate component. My thought was these would come in handy to add on ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Jun-2009
Last week, I posted a highly critical comment on Google's marketing of the Appliance, version 6 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Jun-2009
The release of a new major version of the Google Search Appliance usually creates lots of excitement, but that excitement fades quickly once people start to use the machines for real ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 25-May-2009
After months of high anticipation of what this "Google killer" would bring, Wolfram Alpha was finally opened to the public a week ago ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-May-2009
There's too much here to write up in one blog post, so I'll pick one of the cherries for you here. Last week's Enterprise Search Summit in New York ended with roundtable discussions ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-May-2009
I'm excited to be headed over to New York next week. The Enterprise Search Summit 2009 brings together a veritable who's-who in search ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Apr-2009
Meet Stan, the everyman, who'll try to sell you on Vivisimo Velocity enterprise search software ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Apr-2009
An early joke on Twitter about the Oracle/SUN acquisition: "Oracle buys Sun just to see if Twitter can handle the resulting noise" ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Apr-2009
One of those easy-to-overlook but important details of a search engine: will it actually read your files? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 26-Mar-2009
A rather quaint trait of the Apache Lucene project's homepage is that the search is actually powered by Google ... Continue Reading
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