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Enterprise Search: An Exception in the Recession
The economy has been tanking, but you wouldn’t know it if you looked at the numbers from the search and discovery software market. IDC is reporting that the search market grew 19 percent in 2008 to $2.1 billion, significantly outperforming the software market and the economy as a whole.
The report found that “search-based applications, built on a search backbone, but designed to facilitate a particular task and to create an integrated work environment for users, will proliferate and flourish. Because they make sense to business users, they are already popular. Search-based applications streamline knowledge work, making information workers more productive. Search-based applications embed search and discovery technologies as a component, but their selling point is that a worker can sit down and accomplish a job without having to move from one information source to another, or from one application to the next. Successful vendors will build intuitive applications to facilitate sales, research, loan processing,
marketing, financial analysis, eDiscovery, or call centers. These full-blown applications will develop integrated work environments in which the UI design hides the complexity of multiple information sources and applications. These applications embed knowledge bases, rule bases, analytics, workflow, collaborative tools, and connectors to internal and external sources of information.”
A takeaway from the IDC analysis is that we can expect to see more applications that aggregate data from multiple data sources and repositories and present the data via a single interface. That may be part of the reason that there is significant excitement around the the CMIS content repository standard — it provides a simple consistent interface for exposing repository data, and when all or many data sources can be easily accessed simultanteously, new classes of applications will be possible.
