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Business Intelligence: Assisted by Enterprise Search for Unified Information Access

By Dick Weisinger

Business Intelligence (BI) is increasingly being used by businesses for synthesizing data culled from many company databases to create reports and dashboards that can identify patterns and trends.  BI has had its share of success, but it sometimes isn’t able

Enterprise Search: Looking for More

By Dick Weisinger

It’s no secret that the keys to Enterprise Search have been missing for some time.   Users complain that while searching on Google or Bing is intuitive and easy, trying to find enterprise data is anything but.  It’s not that

Enterprise Search: Still Not a Reality For Most Organizations

By Dick Weisinger

The goals and benefits of true Enterprise Search still elude most organizations.   While Enterprise Search technology has made big strides over the last decade, most organizations either don’t use it or have introduced implementations that reach only into collaborative

ECM Trends: Faceted Search Improves Findability

By Dick Weisinger

A new buzz word has entered the ECM lexicon:  Faceted Search.  Alan Pelz-Sharpe of CMSWatch names faceted search as his number two expected trend in ECM for 2010.  Alfresco is also considering added faceted search capabilities to their Open Source

SaaS: Should you Use SaaS with Enterprise Search?

By Dick Weisinger

Today SaaS-based Enterprise Search doesn’t really make sense mainly because there are no real SaaS Enterprise Search options available.  Endeca’s Paul Sonderegger said that “The SaaS approach has had little impact on the enterprise search market to date.” Blossom, Northern