First Super Scalable LDAP Directory Driven by Big Data
August 9, 2013
We read a rather lengthy summary of a new solution that is classified as a “world’s first.” Yahoo Finance published the press release from Radiant Logic about their commercial solution for distributed storage and processing for enterprise identity management. “Radiant Logic Introduces HDAP: The World’s First Super Scalable LDAP Directory Driven by Big Data and Search Technology” shares the information on it.
It was at the Cloud Identity Summit in Napa that Radiant Logic announced their solution. Based on Hadoop, this new version allows enterprises to channel the power of large cluster and “elastic” computing in their identity infrastructure.
The article tells us:
“With HDAP as part of the upcoming RadiantOne 7.0 virtualization release, companies can radically scale their access and throughput, using the first highly scalable and secure directory that’s based on big data and search technology. A diverse array of forces, from federation and the cloud to an increasingly mobile workforce, is putting escalating pressure on the enterprise identity system. To keep up with authentication and authorization demands, while tapping into greater use of personalization and recommendation engines, companies need a richer view of their identity, along with better performance and greater flexibility.”
We may not typically share articles that use such terminology as LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), however we do understand those magical words ‘business value’ that appear so close on the page.
Megan Feil, August 09, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Natural Language Interface Transforms Search
August 8, 2013
Projections and opportunities are often forecasted for emerging technologies and natural language processing is no exception. We took a look back at an article from earlier in the year posted on Semantic Web: “Looking Ahead to a User Experience Transformed by Conversational Interfaces and NLP.” According to this article, software that is able to understand human intention will play a vital role in transforming business processes and search technology.
IBM distinguished engineer Currie Boyle is quoted as stating the following:
This ecosystem change is happening in the industry…discussing the desire for business dialogue management systems to try to determine the intent of a user seeking information and the intent of the author who wrote it, and matching the two by that intent, even if they don’t share the same words in common to express it. The applications range from consumer conversational and context-aware systems to business professionals finding answers in structured or unstructured data through via natural language interfaces to boosting call contact center performance with dialogue management.
Expert System solutions offer precise analytics using their core semantic search technologies. Their linguistic analysis capabilities enhance the extraction and application of data in the natural language interface.
Megan Feil, August 8, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Bing Now Offers Search By Creative Commons License
August 8, 2013
Here is a useful tidbit brought to us by Search Engine Land. Amy Gesenhues clues us in to a time-saving search feature in, “New Bing Search-by-License Feature Filters Images Based on Usage Rights.” She reports:
“Bing announced a new ‘Search by License’ feature today that filters images based on usage rights. The new feature filters images with a Creative Commons license, helping users avoid the hassle of digging through image licensing details to find available photos. . . .
“Bing also notes clicking on an image from the Bing image search results page will provide the image’s source to help determine licensing details. According to the announcement, the latest version of Microsoft Office 2013 uses the same ‘Search by License’ technology released today, so that when an image search is performed within any Office application, only licensed images are pulled by default.”
A curiously kid-themed screenshot accompanies the write-up, showing the six Creative Commons options under the handy License drop-down menu. Another image illustrates the source listing that accompanies an image from the results page. With this feature, Bing has just added a welcome shortcut to the arsenal of many who work with graphics for a living.
Cynthia Murrell, August 08, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Replacing dtSearch is Easier than it Sounds
August 5, 2013
DtSearch is an interesting topic. Certainly once considered a high water mark for text retrieval systems, it has mostly fallen off the cultural radar. However, that hasn’t stopped one industrious company of…replacing it? We learned more from a recent Flax article, “An Open Source Replacement for the dtSearch Closed Source Search Engine.”
According to the story:
…we developed a new Lucene Analyzer that speaks the same syntax as dtSearch, allowing us to index text input. On the search side we have a Lucene QueryParser that shares this syntax. To make it easier to use we’ve wrapped the whole lot in a modified Solr server. As we needed some features of very recent Lucene code, our modifications are based on a patch to Lucene trunk.
Our best response here is, well, whoopee. Saying you’ve replaced dtSearch is like Chevy claiming it has replaced the horse and buggy with its 2014 model. Frankly, we weren’t aware of too many people still using that software. For goodness sake, a Google search only brought up a single news piece. Chances are most people moved on a long time ago, so we will be stunned to hear about anyone jumping for joy because of this open source option.
Patrick Roland, August 05, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Autonomy ArcSight Tackles Security
August 2, 2013
HP Autonomy is chasing the Oracle SES angle: security for search. We took a look at the company’s pages about HAVEn, Autonomy’s latest big data platform. Regarding the security feature, ArcSight Logger, the company promises:
“With HP ArcSight Logger you can improve everything from compliance and risk management to security intelligence to IT operations to efforts that prevent insider and advanced persistent threats. This universal log management solution collects machine data from any log-generating source and unifies the data for searching, indexing, reporting, analysis, and retention. And in the age of BYOD and mobility, it enables you to comprehensively manage an increasing volume of log data from an increasing number of sources.”
More information on HAVEn can be found in the YouTube video, “Brian Weiss Talks HAVEn: Inside Track with HP Autonomy.” At the 1:34 mark, Autonomy VP Weiss briefly describes how ArcSight analyzes the data itself, from not only inside but also outside an enterprise, for security clues. For example, a threatening post in social media might indicate a potential cyber-attack. It is an interesting approach. Can HP make this a high revenue angle?
Cynthia Murrell, August 02, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Enterprise Partnership Announced
August 2, 2013
The shift to unified information access is occurring throughout the enterprise search market. In order to make that shift more seamless and effective Attivio has partnered with Capax Global. Read all about the partnership in the article, “Capax Global and Attivio Announce Strategic Reseller Partnership.”
The article begins:
“Attivio, creator of the award-winning Active Intelligence Engine (AIE), has formed a strategic reseller partnership with Capax Global, a recognised leader in enterprise search and critical business technology consulting. The partnership addresses the changing needs of Capax Global’s customers as they deal with the widespread shift from traditional enterprise search to unified information access (UIA).”
Unified information access addresses both Big Data and unstructured data. Users are looking for a way to intuitively interact with their data in a way that produces meaning but does not disregard the user experience. LucidWorks, and other value-added open source enterprise providers, seek these same objectives through the use of open source infrastructure. LucidWorks relies on the power of Apache Lucene Solr to keep its customers satisfied at a low cost of both time and money.
Emily Rae Aldridge, August 2, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Has Oracle Swallowed Endeca?
August 1, 2013
Oracle is making headlines in the likes of ZDNet and other sources, with some good news and some bad news. The ZDnet article, “25 Striking Things Oracle Said On Its Q4 Earnings Call,” discusses just that. Up first is that their quarterly earnings fell short of expectations.
However, there was some good news. In just the fourth quarter, Oracle added 500 new SaaS customers — noting that they are bigger and growing faster than Workday.
President Mark Hurd was quoted as stating the following reassuring statements that Oracle will not be slowing down:
“‘Next week we will be announcing technology partnerships with the most largest and important SaaS companies and infrastructure companies in the cloud,’ Hurd said. ‘And they will be using and committing to our technology for years to come…Hurd’s ‘startling series of announcements’ will ‘reshape the cloud’ and perception of it. He mentioned Salesforce, NetSuite and Microsoft.”
Anyone remember when Oracle acquired Endeca back in 2011? It appears that Endeca might be getting marginalized.
Megan Feil, August 01, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Nanotechnology and Search are Ignored Part of Computing Future
July 30, 2013
The future of computing is here! That’s because it looks like the future of computing is the same as its past twenty years. Everywhere we see people talking about innovation, they seem to be missing some key instruments that will likely be shaping our next computing decade. Such was the case with a recent Fred Wu article, “The Future of Computer Programmers – An Interview with Yukihiro ‘Mats’ Matsumoto.”
According to Matsumoto:
“I believe in the foreseeable future the computing industry is still going to advance based on Moore’s law. Although, it is possible that in the next year or two quantum computers become a practical reality, in that case it will change everything! *chuckles* On a serious note, according to Moore’s law, the cost of computing will decrease and the performance and capacity of computing will increase – this basic principle is unlikely to change.“
Sorry, but cheaper computers isn’t a revelation. Nobody ever seems to focus on how nanotechnology and search will undoubtedly reshuffle the deck. Probably because A) it’s hard to determine just how radical of a shift we will see; B) these both teeter on privacy issue that have been so thorny. We can only hope journalists stop burying their head in the sand about the real future.
Patrick Roland, July 30, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Search Factoid from Research Moz
July 29, 2013
I saw “Global Enterprise Search Market to 2016: Latest Industry Analysis, Strategies, Survey, Size, Share, Growth Trends, and Forecast Research Report Available at Research Moz.” The news release explains that Research Moz has completed a study of the enterprise search market, making an effort to cover every possible angle. The report, unlike other analyses, purposes to cover the Middle East and what I used to think of as the Pacific Rim.
I navigated to Research Moz and learned that the report is 58 pages in length. The most fascinating item in the news release, in my view, was:
Global Enterprise Search market to grow at a CAGR of 12.98 percent over the period 2012-2016.
If the robust growth rate is accurate, the search and content processing firms working hard to cover their payroll can look forward to a brighter future. The information available to me suggests that search is fracturing, making growth estimates difficult. The fastest growing sectors like military intelligence are less than forthcoming about the size of the contracts awarded by various nation states. In addition, the sharp uptake of open source search solutions continues to have an impact of some commercial vendors. Companies which sell services to support information retrieval are, in my view, consulting and engineering firms, not vendors of search solutions.
Research Moz also offers reports on other global markets; for example, pet food.
More information is available at http://www.researchmoz.us/global-enterprise-search-market-2012-2016-report.html. Pricing information was not available.
Stephen E Arnold, July 29, 2013
Sponsored by Xenky
Marketers! OdinText Can Help You
July 28, 2013
I saw a flurry of links to a news release titled “New Patented Text Analytics Analytics Approach [sic]” about a text analytics package. The company receiving the patent is OdinText / Anderson Analytics. The company asserts that it provides a text analytics system for market research professionals. I was intrigued by an “analytics analytics approach.”
The news story describes US 8,475,498, “Natural Language Text Analytics.” The abstract states:
A method of text analytics includes filtering a plurality of unfiltered records having unstructured data into at least a first group and a second group. The first group and said second group each include at least two records and the first group is different than the second group. The method includes determining a first proportion of occurrence for a term by comparing a first number of records having at least one occurrence of the term in the first group to a first total number of records in the first group, determining a second proportion of occurrence for the term by comparing a second number of records having at least one occurrence of the term in said second group to a second total number of records in the second group, and comparing the first proportion of occurrence to the second proportion of occurrence to yield a resultant comparison occurrence.
Anderson Analytics’ Web site says:
We Focus on Getting Accurate and Relevant Data. Quality research starts with quality data, and the best answers come from well thought out questions. Whether we are working with internal business data or gathering primary research, we make sure that projects are of correct and sufficient scope to accurately address the business need.
I scanned the document and thought about Ramanathan Guha’s programmable search engine and context server invention; for example, US 8,316,040 and its related inventions from 2007 forward. The Guha system and method are quite different from the Odin/Anderson system and method.
If you are an NLP savvy marketer, you may want to take a closer look at OdinText. The system “overcomes, alleviates, and/or mitigates one or more of the aforementioned [references a list of known NLP search problems] and other deleterious effects of prior art.
Google and Dr. Guha, you may have some work to do.
Stephen E Arnold, July 28, 2013
Sponsored by Xenky
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