Protected: SurfRay Improving SharePoint
June 20, 2011
Protected: MetaVis Information Manager Improves SharePoint
June 17, 2011
Protected: Set Your SharePoint Site a Twitter
June 16, 2011
Expert System Is on the Move
June 15, 2011
The way consumers and enterprises are accessing information is changing. Not only is there a need to access and manage information stored in the traditional internal sources, but organizations must be able to effectively manage and capture intelligence from the streams of information coming in from every direction. Without semantic technology, traditional enterprise search is unable to extract value from the stream, which means leaving a great deal of critical information behind. We learned from a recent Expert System news release:
With the overwhelming amount of information available today, there is an unprecedented need to be able to cut through the noise and capture the information that is most important to you,” said Luca Scagliarini, VP of Strategy and Business Development at Expert System. “Semantic is the only technology that can really help companies take advantage of all the information available via the real-time web, and it’s the only technology that will be able to filter the noise for the conversations, the patterns and sentiment that is important to you.
Expert System is positioning itself as a way to deliver enterprise search by intercepting the critical and the relevant from all the streams of information available. By combining the benefits of semantic tagging and semantic-based text comprehension, Cogito SEE allows the enterprise to leverage all the information organizations have access to and require to drive business strategies. New features include:
- A point of access to structured and unstructured information including newsfeeds, social networks and other internet sources.
- An interface that enables intuitive, visual navigation of tags, facets, as well as interaction with search results to discover new connections and data.
- Semantic search capability for multilanguage content.
- Automatic and customizable report generation to monitor and share evolving search details and results.
For more information, visit www.expertsystem.net.
Derek Clark, June 15, 2011
Protected: SharePoint 2007 Gets Updated Web Parts
June 15, 2011
Open Search Server
June 14, 2011
TechWorld’s “Open Search Server Releases New Developer Preview” offers details on a preview of a new Apache Lucene-based search system.
Written in Java, the article reports that:
Open Search Server can crawl file systems, databases and websites” and supports a wide variety of document formats. The preview includes “a new screenshot feature that captures screenshots of the Web pages being crawled, similar to the preview feature of a big name public search engine.
The open software offers companies independence in developing their information management strategies. In the “Cloud” era, these strategies – how users will be able to search and retrieve documents – will become strategic.
If you are tracking open source search vendors, add this one to your list.
Stephen E Arnold, June 14, 2011
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information and current news about data fusion
Stormy Weather for the Eucalyptus Grove?
June 10, 2011
Still feel safe in the cloud? Have you heard from Eucalyptus lately?
According to “Critical Vulnerability in Open Source Eucalyptus Clouds”, there has been another break-in. At least a theoretical one; university researchers have found a hole in the cloud. Per the article:
“An attacker can, with access to the network traffic, intercept Eucalyptus SOAP commands and either modify them or issue their own arbitrary commands. To achieve this, the attacker needs only to copy the signature from one of the XML packets sent by Eucalyptus to the user. As Eucalyptus did not properly validate SOAP requests, the attacker could use the copy in their own commands sent to the SOAP interface and have them executed as the authenticated user.”
The platform has already provided a newer, downloadable version that corrects the issue. Eucalyptus has warned their services may be a little spotty while the rest of the system recognizes the fix.
Go ahead and tally another tick mark against the cloud. What’s worse, besides the discovered threat, users must contend with the hassle of outages related to the fix. I could be wrong, but it seems it is only a matter of time before some serious consequences arise from lax attitudes concerning data storage.
How about putting enterprise data in the cloud with a search interface? Or maybe a bank of social security numbers? Now what about a security lapse?
Sarah Rogers, June 10, 2011
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information and current news about data fusion
Protected: Straighten Up Your SharePoint Web Parts Tables
June 9, 2011
Landscape of Search Order Form Live
June 8, 2011
Pandia.com, the publisher of “The New Landscape of Enterprise Search”, has posted an information page and a link to an order form. This new study takes a frank, objective look at the market for enterprise search systems and six leading vendors. Unlike the “pay to play” studies and conferences, the 150 page report provides the detail procurement teams and business professionals need to decide which system best suits a particular findability problem.
The report answers a number of questions which are routinely overlooked, ignored, or unknown to some of the organizations writing “pay to play” reports about vendors; for example:
- What was the status of the rewrite of Fast ESP prior to the purchase of the company by Microsoft in 2008?
- What technical methods cause certain scaling challenges in some Endeca and Vivisimo implementations?
- How do the platforms of Autonomy and Exalead compare in multi content deployments for enterprise applications?
- Why are most procurements won by a small number of vendors despite dozens, if not hundreds of lower cost options?
- What are the cost implications of Google’s GSA pricing method for the GB 7007 and GB 9009?
- What’s the outlook for search innovation in the next nine to 12 months?
This report goes beyond Stephen E Arnold’s 2008 report on content processing for the Gilbane Group, the Successful Enterprise Search Management monograph for Galatea in 2009, and his three studies of Google’s now-ageing search technology in the Google trilogy, published by Infonortics. Significant additional investigation via interviews and hands on involvement with search technology propel this report well beyond his first three editions of the Enterprise Search Report, 2004 to 2007.
If you are involved in enterprise search, you will want to get a copy of this report which discusses search solutions available from Autonomy, Endeca, Exalead, Google, Microsoft (Fast Search), and Vivisimo. The report includes a table providing brief facts about two dozen other systems, including open source options.
What sets the report apart is that the information in the new report does not duplicate the information which is available without charge in the Search Wizards Speak collection of more than 50 interviews with experts in search and retrieval or Mr. Arnold’s blogs about search and content processing: Beyond Search and Inteltrax.com
You can access the Pandia.com description of the report and the order form at http://www.pandia.com/enterprise-search/. The report costs $20 and is available as a PDF file.
Don Anderson, June 8, 2011
The post was sponsored by Stephen E Arnold
Smoothing SharePoint Upgrades
June 7, 2011
After a whirl of conferences, I was catching up on my reading. I was interested in J. Peter Bruzzese’s article “Don’t Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Until You Read This” suggests, this is not an update for the faint of heart. Our experience at Search Technologies was that SharePoint upgrades have been reasonably straight forward.
His warning suggests:
You may like to be hands-on with your own environment, installing all your own servers and such, but the upgrade to SharePoint 2010 should either be treated with the utmost care or turned over to an expert who’s done it a bunch of times and has it down to a science.
He continues by saying it took him “a week to research and test in-place upgrade process and the database-attach migrate process before throwing down the ‘hire somebody else’ gauntlet.”
So there it is.
His caution comes complete with neon blinking lights. His article cited some well known experts; for example, Spencer Harbar, Microsoft Enterprise Architect and Don Holmes, Intellium consultant and trainer. The article suggest that any “headaches” that you encounter “depends more on your current environment than on SP2010 itself.”
We agree.
They claim that this upgrade “is far less of an issue than upgrading from SPs2003 to Moss2007.”
We have some suggestions. First, check with specialists. Please, consider Search Technologies as a potential resource. Second, work through Microsoft’s documentation paying particular attention to customization notes. Microsoft’s installers are thoroughly tested, but it is impossible for any vendor to upgrade every possible configuration of SharePoint. Third, make certain you have a back up, installation discs and their keys, and any other information that Microsoft provides licensees, certified engineers, or certified SharePoint developers. Often a hiccup can be addressed easily when these essentials are at hand.
For more information, contact us via our Web site at www.searchtechnologies.com.
Iain Fletcher, June 7, 2011
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