Update on Thetus Savanna
June 6, 2011
A Sys-Con Media article “Thetus’ Savanna Analytical Tool” provides an overview of the Thetus Savanna Analytical Tool by two authors and includes a video evaluation. We found the information interesting, but parts did look as if the Thetus marketing gene was dominant.,
The Savanna Analytical tool is designed to provide search, discovery and visualization tools for analysts. The article said:
Savanna uses tools such as Kapow to scrape websites and all-source data and then pushes them through MetaCarta (for geo-spatial analysis) and Janya (for real-language textual analysis). This data is then sorted into a Savanna’s application – enabling real-time search.
After the documents go through Kapow, MetaCarta and Janya, Savanna re-renders the documents and turns the masses of text into real pages making the search and discovery of the pages much easier.
The write up added:
Savanna’s search function crawls through the document repository added, and uses socio-economic indicators to categorize. It allows analysts to take a large number of search returns and narrow them down quickly and accurately.
If only all decisions could be so simple. Real data in real life can give even sophisticated systems indigestion.
Stephen E Arnold, June 1, 2011
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information and current news about data fusion
Microsoft Search Blog Not Updated in Months
June 2, 2011
If you have not visited the Microsoft Search Blog, you may want to check it out. We think it is a good example of the commitment Microsoft has to enterprise search. Oh, Microsoft still sells Fast Search, consulting, certifications, and add ons. However, the blog is not exactly a pivot point.
It’s about relevance, it’s about speed and it’s all about competition…ya snooze, ya lose, right?
We’re a little confused then, by the search results we got from Google recently when queried “enterprise search.”
Our queries for content and visits to the site over a week or so revealed that the last update seems to have been about ten months ago.
My hunch is that somewhere, in some small, cubby in Redmond, there’s a person who’s supposed to be searching and updating the enterprise blog.
We try to monitor the SharePoint search world, and we are finding that the information about SharePoint search is mostly about getting a SharePoint system under control, back on track, and delivering specific functionality. You can track our SharePoint coverage at www.sharepointsemantics.com. We also cover SharePoint in Beyond Search. Just search for the category SharePoint in the search box on the blog’s splash page.
The goslings and I will try to “mind the gap”.
Stephen E Arnold, June 2, 2011
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information and current news about data fusion
Protected: Indexing SharePoint Content through Northern Light
June 2, 2011
Exalead Makes a Sage Move
June 1, 2011
We have no qualms over recurrent expressions of our appreciation and enthusiasm for the Exalead brand.
A long time leader in the field of search enabled applications and data management software, the company continues to prove itself relevant in a landscape that shifts more frequently than the iTunes’ Recent Hits page.
The most recent news we saw about Exalead, a unit of Dassault Systèmes, comes in the form of a deal with the Sage Group. Sage is one of the leaders in enterprise resource planning (ERP). Sage will use Exalead’s technology in the Sage ERP X3 system.
The write up “Sage Innovates with Exalead CloudView to Enhance Its ERP User Experience” said:
CloudView brings the speed and simplicity of consumer Web search to the Sage ERP X3 user experience, offering flexible natural language search across all Sage database content, including both data and metadata. Offered as a simple drag-and-drop Gadget in the Sage portal, CloudView-powered Sage Search enables users to locate information anywhere in the system using a single text box: no training, complex forms or SQL queries required. Moreover, fuzzy matching and flexible search refinement by dynamic results categories help ensure search success even when a user’s query is incomplete, misspelled or imprecise.
CloudView may give Sage a turbo boost. With this deal, Sage and Exalead jump up the enterprise charts to super group status.
Micheal Cory, June 1, 2011
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information and current news about data fusion
EMC: Lots of Initiatives and Now an Appliance
June 1, 2011
EMC has been busy. The company has announced a wide range of initiatives. The flow of announcements has been overwhelming. We did notice “SAS Will Be Available On A Database Appliance From EMC,” SAS has announced that it will begin to offer SAS High Performance Analytics. The system will be available on an EMC database appliance.
The blog asserted:
This new offering from SAS on the EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance will provide an environment for customers to perform analytical exploration and development on all data to complement their regular analytic operations.
Clients will be able to form models that take into account their data from each department and showcase all the possible scenarios. Being able to see the whole picture definitely gives customers a more accurate picture to enable to them to make better decisions. In addition when compared to current technology, SAS High-performance Analytics blows the competition out the water and solves problems in seconds rather than hours. This appliance could be in the running for best in class.
However, with appliances proliferating in some organizations, management of yet another toaster is, in our experience, beginning to generate some pushback.
April Holmes, June 1, 2011
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information and current news about data fusion
Protected: A SharePoint Diagnostic Tool from Microsoft
June 1, 2011
OpenText Gets More Social
May 31, 2011
OpenText is dedicated to helping businesses get the most from their content. The company helps clients clearly pave out clear business goals so they can provide them with the enterprise technology services they need to support their various programs and departments. According to the Business Insider article “How OpenText Uses Social Media” Greg Second, vice president of investor relations at OpenText opened up about their new role for social media. He stated that:
“All staff especially management members are encouraged to use social media to ‘reach out’ to their customers and people in the industry.”
The popularity of social media makes it a great tool to communicate with the public but analysts, portfolio managers and others in the field are more interested in the comments of the employees in order to get a better understanding of the industry. Sounds like a great tool but with so few details, one must wonder if it ever lived up to the hype. We are, however, wary of categorical affirmatives. That “all” surely does not mean everyone?
Stephen E Arnold, May 31, 2011
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information
Protected: Indexing SharePoint Content through Northern Light
May 31, 2011
The Analytics Path: Search Sits at the Kerb
May 30, 2011
According to the Technology Review article “The Future of Analytics” IBM is working on the next generation of Analytics technology and has set out of develop technology that can handle the massive amounts of data. The team led by Chid Apte:
“is developing algorithms and other techniques that can extract meaning from data, and it is trying to find ways to use these methods to solve business challenges.”
In his interview with Tom Simonite, Apte indicated that the company was trying to take company data as well as social information data and work with clients to see how both sources can be used to handle business problems. The team even helped to develop the popular QA technology that was used on the Watson on Jeopardy and they hope to bridge this QA problem solving technology into their system.
Apte concluded by emphasizing the ever present need for a better way to handle large scale data. If IBM can pull it off they will have hit the jackpot.
IBM has a Tundra truck stuffed with business intelligence, statistics, and analytics tools. IBM has no product. IBM, in my view, has an opportunity to charge big bucks to assemble these components into a system that makes customers wheeze, “No one ever got fired for buying IBM.”
Well, it used to be true. And it is probably true for MIT grads. Today? Maybe. Tomorrow? Maybe not.
April Holmes, May 30, 2011
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information and current news about data fusion
Protected: Idera Has a New SharePoint Diagnostic Tool
May 30, 2011
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