Search Technology Evolves to Encompass Sound
December 6, 2011
Lockergnome reported on the evolution of search technology this week in the article “In Search Of Sound With MediaMined.”
As a way to continue to evolve search technology beyond searching for text and images, audio engineers at Imagine Research in San Francisco have been working on what they call “the world’s first sound object recognition Web service.”
The service is called MediaMined, and is driven by artificial intelligence that is able to “listen” to sound files — whether they’re properly labeled, mislabeled, or not labeled at all — and analyze what they actually are.
Writer Robert Glen Fogarty states:
“Musicians, podcasters, radio broadcasters, and audio engineers would obviously benefit from this kind of technology, but some other unexpected applications could make use of it, as well. Mobile devices could use a MediaMined type of system to detect their surroundings and present new ways to interact with their users based on this incoming data (think augmented reality cranked up to 11). Medical professionals might be able to use this technology in order to gather data based on sounds made by patients — such as sneezing, snoring, coughing, and wheezing — to help with more keenly diagnosing their condition.”
Here at beyond search we believe that this new search technology is definitely a step in the right direction. The experts at Search Technologies can provide organizations with search
solutions–text or talk.
Iain Fletcher, December 6, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
AppRapids: A New Information Service about Enterprise Apps
December 6, 2011
We pride ourselves on the wide variety of information covered “beyond search”. But the field of search technology increasingly morphs into a larger and larger beast. We have decided to focus on apps in a new information service.
That’s why we have created AppRapids. We want to cover the appification of enterprise software solutions. Like SharePointSemantics and Inteltrax, the service is supported by a commercial venture. We are delighted to announce that PolySpot will sponsor AppRapids.
The AppRapids service will cover news, developer information, and business strategies for the exploding world of enterprise applications for search, content processing, and business processes.
This service is run by members of the Beyond Search team. AppRapids’ editor Megan Feil and ArnoldIT editorial coordinator Constance Ard, MLS, utilize the Overflight intelligence system to track important news related to enterprise architecture, search solutions, and apps.
Features of the new service include:
- Open comments section
- Social components such as LinkedIn and Facebook presences
- User-submitted content
- Open source approach so you can locate a source document and reuse the AppRapids’ content with a link back to the micro-site.
As the PRWeb News Release states, Chief Marketing Officer and PolySpot Founder Olivier Lefassy said:
We believe that the type of information generated by ArnoldIT makes it easy to track important innovations and the companies which are helping create the next-generation enterprise frameworks, architectures, and solutions, including open source. PolySpot is active in this arena, and we want to ensure that a continuous flow of information is available to document developments in open source and proprietary solutions.
PolySpot was founded in 2001. The company designs and sells search and information access solutions designed to improve business efficiency in an environment where data volumes are increasing at an exponential rate. PolySpot’s solutions offer universal connectivity, covering all business needs and ensuring that companies can access the data they need, regardless of their structure, format or origin.
For more information about PolySpot’s enterprise solutions, navigate to www.polyspot.com.
PolySpot’s solutions are based on an innovative infrastructure offering both versatility and high performance, enabling companies to make best use of their assets and rationalizing the strategic costs that today’s businesses and organizations face. PolySpot’s solutions have millions of users worldwide, across all business sectors, with customers including Allianz, BNP Paribas, Bureau Veritas, Crédit Agricole, OSEO, Schlumberger, Veolia, Trinity Mirror and Vinci. For more information about PolySpot, point your browser to www.polyspot.com.
The most notable feature of AppRapids is similar to what we do at Beyond Search: stories include analysis of topics that are usually intentionally muddled by the language of marketing experts. The editors welcome comments for stories and any ideas may be submitted to gumdrop1@mail.com. Point your browser to the About Us page for more information on the editorial policy.
The AppRapids’ team will be attending key events, and we will process news releases sent to us at the email in the news service, gumdrop1@mail.com. We are contemplating a meet up in the near future. Watch AppRapids for details.
Megan Feil, December 6, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: Is SharePoint the End All Content Management Solution?
December 5, 2011
Inforbix App Is a Step Above the Rest
December 5, 2011
In the beginning, apps were for the cool kids to play music and games on their new-fangled smartphones. However, with the evolution of the tablet computer, businesses could no longer ignore the chance to improve productivity while on the go. Mobility has become king, but until this point it has been based on document management. Inforbix is about to take a huge leap forward and introduce a business app that focuses on product data.
So what makes the Inforbix app so different from an app like OpenText Document Management OpenText Document Management? Inforbix will go beyond the documents and bring you such things as product drawings, data and information with a tap of a finger.
The focus of the Inforbix app is cutting edge. Traditional document management systems simply cannot handle the image, data and text files associated with technological product development. For example companies which manufacture components for products like the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Apple iPad have been left out of the app world…until now. Watch for the release of the Infobix App…it will change mobile business intelligence forever!
Catherine Lamsfuss, December 5, 2011
Customer Experience to Take Center Stage in 2012
December 2, 2011
We are post-Thanksgiving—that time of year when the “year in review” articles start emerging and predictions are made for coming trends to meet us in the new year. The world of content management systems is no exception. Marisa Peacock gives us some of her predictions in, “If 2012 Is the Year of Customer Experience, What Will it Bring?”
According to Peacock, customer experience will take center stage in areas such as mobile, social, personalization, and localization to name a few. What does all this mean to us? A need for better content management.
Peacock’s advice:
“Of course, we must wait for 2012 to really understand how and if brands will leverage the customer experience. With only a month left before the new year, companies of all sizes are strongly encouraged to revisit their mobile strategies, customer relationship management tools and social media policies.”
How do you prepare in a smart way, despite what changes the new year may bring? Invest in a smart content management solution, one that can handle information needs on multiple levels. We like Fabasoft Mindbreeze and its suite of offerings.
“Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise understands you, or to be more precise, understands what the most important information is for you at any precise moment in time. It is the center of excellence for your knowledge and simultaneously your personal assistant for all questions. The information pairing technology brings enterprise and Cloud data together.”
Mindbreeze can handle mobile, email, enterprise, website search, etc. Their Connectors feature works with SharePoint 2010, if that system is already in place at your organization. Regardless of the size or scope of your organization, information needs continue to grow exponentially. Heed the warnings and manage your information in a way that improves the customer experience. Find a smart solution like Fabasoft Mindbreeze and you will be able to adapt to changing needs.
Emily Rae Aldridge, December 02, 2011
Sponsored by: Pandia.com
Inforbix Is Breaking Tradition and Improving Productivity
December 2, 2011
Holiday traditions like your Aunt May’s awful fruitcake may never change, but traditional product management systems are about to go through a major transformation. Companies like Inforbix are not only breaking tradition, but shattering it by focusing on multiple file types and tying an entire company’s product data together up into one impressive bow.
Most business apps focus on single category content such as engineering drawings like PDXpert PLM Engineering Software or document management such as OpenText Document Mangement. According to Inforbix, their apps
“are not meant to be an alternative to Product Data Management (PDM) systems; they will co-exist and extract data from them” and they will become the “’glue’ that connect all company-wide product data together in a meaningful and helpful way.” (see: Why Inforbix)
This type of technology is what companies are looking for. They want to multitask and increase productivity. We have to say that a management system that blends a range of information – from email to product drawings – is much more appealing than numerous single content apps. Inforbix has broken out of the fruitcake mold and become one of the finest cakes in the business!
Catherine Lamsfuss, December 2, 2011
The Cloud Competition Storms between Google and Microsoft?
December 2, 2011
I recently read two articles discussing the competition that’s heating up between Google’s cloud services app and Microsoft.
According to a Wired Enterprise story “Google Vs. Microsoft: Not All Clouds are Created Equal” Google’s cloud technology has caused companies like Oracle and Microsoft, that have historically been on-premise companies to begin to change their ways. This is due to the fact that some of their chief officers have left to join Google and the company spent two days pitching its ever-growing collection of enterprise services to 350 businesses that were interested in adopting their business model.
According to the article Google is amping up customer support too:
“Google is now offering round-the-clock phone support for all issues involving the core services in its Google Apps suite, and then David Girouard — the man who essentially founded Google’s enterprise operation — unveiled some new tools for managing smartphones that use Google Apps. But these additions served Google’s larger message: that its web-based services are more flexible and reliable than traditional “on-premise” software — or even the cloud services now offered by the likes of Microsoft and Oracle.”
While this article makes Google’s cloud technology look like it’s on the cutting edge, Microsoft is trying its darndest to compete with the search giant.
According to “Microsoft Take a Fight to Google Over Cloud App Defections” Microsoft has come out with a team called “Google Compete” to try and convince people to stay with office and not deflect to Google cloud apps.
Tony Tai, a senior program manager at Microsoft said:
“In the case of Google, we find it quite common that their consumer-oriented approach falls short of meeting enterprise customers’ needs, thus providing an opportunity for us to win the customer. The wise words of Benjamin Franklin often apply: ‘The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”
Ouch! when did things get so ugly? and where has the civility gone?
Jasmine Ashton, December 2, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
A Tough Nut: Engineering Management Now Multi-Faceted and Multi-Tasked
December 1, 2011
If you are an engineer you probably are well acquainted with Cadac Organice – the engineering document management solution based on SharePoint. This software has been one of the leading engineering management systems for quite some time, but Inforbix is looking to improve on areas where Cadac Organice falls short.
Cadac Organice controls project documents such as emails, Office documents and CAD drawings. It also “automates document control and tracking using transmittals and workflows.” (see: http://www.cadac.com/organice/Pages/default.aspx). This is all great, but the computer-aided drawings still need to be searchable and linked to supporting documents such as vendors, quality control data, email and other important information. This is where Inforbix excels. Inforbix offers a system which performs this federating operation which makes all the information available and seamless.
The name of the game is better organization which leads to increased productivity. Those words are music to CEO’s ears and Inforbix is doing just that. They are surging ahead of the competition by accessing and tracking related CAD documents from multiple PDM systems within the company (see: Inforbix Solutions). Check them out because they are offering an engineering document management system for the next generation.
Jennifer Wensink, December 1, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
HP and Device IDOL 2012
December 1, 2011
When Hewlett-Packard (HP) purchased Autonomy this past August for $10.3 billion, nearly 24 times the small Cambridge-based software company’s earnings, it vowed it’s reasoning was to integrate Autonomy’s software with HP’s hardware products.
Three months later, ZD Net UK reported on November 29, 2011, Autonomy’s advanced data search, analysis and augmented reality technology will be integrated across HP’s products, in the article “Autonomy Plots HP- Spanning Tech”.
Autonomy’s chief executive, Mike Lynch said:
There is a lot of work going on between the different business units at HP [to integrate Autonomy technology]. Servers and storage is obviously key [but with the] Personal Systems Group stuff is going to come that was only available for very large companies.There’s also some really stunning technology for printing being done by both HP research and development people and Autonomy’s. More detail will be given very shortly.
Autonomy’s technology helps make sense of information generated by social media, phone calls, video feeds and other types of unstructured data. I am very interested to see what this technology brings to HP’s products over the next year.
I think it was in the late 1990oks I saw a demonstration of a smart photocopier in Japan. I am tempted to say it was a Fuji Xerox project, but I could be mistaken. The idea was that a photocopier would convert a scanned image to ASCII, perform optical character recognition, and then match the text to be copied against a database of information. The idea was that if the document contained information of a sensitive nature, the photocopier would make sure the user had the access level appropriate to the content. If not, the copier would not out the duplicate, note the instance, and notify via an alert a security function.
There are other applications of smart search and content processing applications which I have either seen as demonstrations or read about in the missives AtomicPR type firms carpet bomb me. Several observations:
- The idea of smarter enterprise devices is a good one. There is no lack of effort in this area. However, moving beyond specialist markets remains a challenge. I anticipate that Hewlett Packard will have the confidence, experience, and resources to over come such hurdles.
- The value added processing adds cycles to what some users view as a slow process. If the copier takes more time to determine if my copy is okay, I would probably find another solution. In business processes, snappy performance is highly desirable.
- In security applications, the job of keeping access control lists and databases of potentially sensitive information in sync remains a work in progress. On the surface, the task seems trivial, but there is the existence of code words, the need for disambiguation, and the statistical rounding that can contribute to false positives.
The idea is a bold one, and it is sweeping through a range of news postings this morning. The buzz words attached include augmented reality, next generation,and HP spanning technology. The entire unfolding of this vision is something to which I am looking forward. I will enjoy the observations of the “real” experts in search as well. In the meantime, we have a new edition of IDOL to watch in the coming marketing season. I can hear the announcer now, “This is HP IDOL.”
Stephen E Arnold, December 1, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: Defining SharePoint Roles and Playing with Kittens: Good Ideas
December 1, 2011
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