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Enterprise Search: Great ROI, but Few Takers

By Dick Weisinger

What with more than 50 companies offering enterprise search products, like Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Autonomy, Endeca, Vivisimo and others, you’d think that Search would be flourishing in the Enterprise.  But numbers from InformationWeek paint a surprisingly different picture. The

Enterprise Search: Save Time. Save Money.

By Dick Weisinger

Companies that implement Enterprise Search are reporting significant productivity gains for their workers.  That’s the result of an Aberdeen survey of 118 companies taken in July and August 2009. Survey respondents were asked to compare their current efficiencies versus last

Enterprise Search: An Exception in the Recession

By Dick Weisinger

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

Enterprise Search: Do You Need It?

By Dick Weisinger

Times are tough and companies are cutting back on expenditures.  Gartner suggests that one place that companies might look to save some dollars is on their Enterprise Search solution.  Enterprise Search can be costly — $500K installations are not uncommon.

Enterprise Search: An Elusive Goal

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise Search is still not there yet.  A vendor-sponsored study by Recommind of satisfaction around companies and their use of existing Enterprise Search Solutions reveals the short-comings of the current technology.  The survey found that users are able to successfully