What Does OmniFind 9 Cost?
June 20, 2011
Good question. We fielded this one a week or so ago. The answer was surprisingly difficult to find. We did get the info, and we wanted to pass along an item form 2010 which we wanted to document.
Cnet Japan reported “IBM Japan, Ltd., Announcing Search Software Which Mounts Both Functions ‘Reproducibility’ and ‘Comprehensiveness.’” In an article which describes the advances in this version of OmniFind, what caught our attention was the section on price. As translated via Google Translator:
“IBM OmniFind V9.1 fee is large for ‘IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition V9.1’ is 716 million yen (excluding tax, 100PVU per case) per division that can start small ‘IBM OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition V9.1’ is 40,000,491 yen (excluding tax, 100PVU per case, up to 200PVU).”
40 million yen was almost $500,000. We liked the entire post.
Cynthia Murrell, June 20, 2011
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information and current news about data fusion
Endeca Pursues Customer Support
June 20, 2011
Always striving to stay abreast of trends, we found this post at CMSWire “Endeca Spotlights Customer Experience Mgmt with Infront” quite interesting. It is no secret that the search landscape has changed. Traditional vendors of “findability” solutions have put on their thinking caps in order to find ways to pump up revenue in a tough economic climate.
Endeca is pushing its technology’s applicability to customer support. Endeca’s InFront suite of products offers a solution to certain customer support information challenges. Endeca’s system does search and Guided Navigation. It also ads support for search engine optimization, social content, and mobile media support. Endeca asserts:
InFront allows businesses to create greater customer engagement with richer content and promotions,” explained Jason Purcell, General Manager, eBusiness, Endeca. “With integrated analytics and agile business user tools, InFront adapts to changing market needs, influences customer behavior across channels, and scales a relevant, personalized experience for every customer, every time.
Which search vendor will emerge as the victor in the pursuit of customer support license revenue? There are a number of search horses in the race, but there are incumbents. The race is difficult to call.
Micheal Cory, June 20, 2011
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information and current news about data fusion
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
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