HP Acquires Autonomy. Investors Put on a Happy Face
October 4, 2011
A news release whizzed by on October 3, 2011, bearing happy tidings to Autonomy stakeholders. The deal with Hewlett Packard has been consummated. The news release asserted:
The acquisition positions HP as a leader in the large and growing enterprise information management space. Autonomy’s software offerings power more than 25,000 customer accounts worldwide and, as part of HP, will provide high-value business solutions to help customers manage the explosion of unstructured and structured information. Autonomy offers solutions that are complementary across HP’s enterprise offerings and strengthens the company’s data analytics, cloud, industry and workflow management capabilities.
Now with Ms. Whitman at the helm and Autonomy in the HP flotilla, will the company be able to generate the revenue required to pay for the “meaning based computing company.” I don’t have a clue. HP has some interesting challenges, but it has some big money units, including the ink business. I also think the print on demand unit has some potential, and the company desperately needs an improved findability solution for that unit as well as the HP Web site.
Fascinating to consider what HP can do. Microsoft paid $1.2 billion for Fast Search & Transfer. After three years, Fast Search is more or less a freebie for customers who buy oodles of client access licenses and jump on the SharePoint bandwagon. What will HP do with Autonomy? Make lots of money quickly is presumably one goal. We will monitor the trajectory of the deal because we think Mike Lynch could be the person to push out Ms. Whitman and get Autonomy managed effectively. Mr. Lynch is associated with search, but I think he is a much under-rated senior manager. HP could be the platform he needs to allow his skills to be showcased on a larger stage. Some “real” consultants who failed at being Web masters, home economics majors, and students of 18th century poetry will doubt my confidence in Mr. Lynch. Well, that’s why I am a big wheel in rural Kentucky and the “real” experts hang out in the world’s watering holes, not a pond filled with mine run off. Oh, the real consultants are not counting their billions as is Mr. Lynch I surmise.
Stephen E Arnold, October 4, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: Key Issues for SharePoint Tomorrow
October 4, 2011
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Protected: Setting Up Custom Access Controls in SharePoint Search
September 29, 2011
IntelSoft Provides Data Management for Supply Chains
September 28, 2011
In the world of supply chains there are several programs a company can choose for their reporting needs. IntelSoft is one such program with an interesting new demo available. Campion PPS, the parent of IntelSoft, repeatedly describes the program as “Easy, Agile and Robust.”
The demo gives a walkthrough of the programming system and the many applications available at both the creation and end result. Live time reporting is just a click away and information can easily be added and deleted from reports and then distributed to the appropriate team members. The systems ease-of-use allows IT departments more time to focus on more important jobs than the drudgery most data management systems require.
Campian’s website describes IntelSoft’s solution as:
Increasingly, more and more detailed supply chain reports has become the norm, as has the need for real time solutions facilitating rapid drill down of information in order to achieve a more visible, efficient, and responsive supply chain structure…Modern BI solutions, such as IntelSoft Style Intelligence, can support these supply chain report needs for greater transparency across organizations and the desire for rapid, more detailed reporting requirements to aid decision making through all levels.
Data management is not limited to businesses dealing with massive amounts of written data to sort through. Companies such as supply chains also lose precious man hours searching and retrieving data. Programs such as IntelSoft are an ideal solution to that loss in productivity. As search and content processing vendors expand from the commodity arena of enterprise search, firms looking for new markets will have to offer benefits not provided by incumbents. Without benefits, pricing may become the way for a search vendor to attack certain vertical markets.
Stephen E Arnold, September 28, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: SharePoint Profesionals: Are Customers Put First?
September 28, 2011
Search Technologies: Competency and a Search Milestone
September 27, 2011
Search Technologies, one of the world’s largest independent provider of search engine expertise and implementation services, has a lot to be proud of this week. In addition to receiving its second Microsoft Gold Digital Competency award, this time for digital marketing, the company has also signed its 100th Fast customer for search engine implementation services and consulting. We learned in Search Technologies Achieves Microsoft Gold Competency in Digital Marketing:
To earn this gold competency, organizations must complete a rigorous set of tests to prove their level of technology expertise, especially in delivering internet solutions on SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Fast Search Server, and related technologies. They must have the right number of Microsoft Certified Professionals, submit customer references and demonstrate their commitment to customer satisfaction by participating in an annual survey.
Search Technologies has a long history with the Fast product dating back to its origins, and it was honored as Fast Search & Transfer’s worldwide Alliance Partner of the Year back in 2006.
We have been monitoring the changes at Microsoft related to search. Our view is that interest in what is now Microsoft’s flagship search product continues to remain strong. Search Technologies has begun more than a dozen new customer engagements thus far in 2011. Congratulations.
Jasmine Ashton, Sept 27, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: Amazon Converts to SharePoint 2010
September 27, 2011
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September 26, 2011
Protected: Microsoft Debugger Download Available: DebugDiag 1.2
September 23, 2011
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