{"id":6245,"date":"2016-04-18T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=6245"},"modified":"2016-03-14T08:33:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T16:33:03","slug":"enterprise-search-incorporating-machine-learning-and-predictive-algorithms-to-gain-relevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/enterprise-search-incorporating-machine-learning-and-predictive-algorithms-to-gain-relevance\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Search: Incorporating Machine Learning and Predictive Algorithms to Gain Relevance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Search for documents and data within the enterprise has been tough. \u00a0A survey by SearchYourCloud <\/a>found that people would spend between five and 25 minutes everytime they needed to look for a document.<\/p>\n

Much of the problem has been that tools for enterprise search have been lacking. \u00a0Either businesses didn’t invest in them, or the tools weren’t configured well enough to be useful, or the features of the enterprise search product used were poor.<\/p>\n

A survey by AIIM<\/a> found that a quarter of businesses said that they have not invested in any search tools. \u00a038 percent said that while they had search tools, they made no attempt to optimize or tune them to improve search performance specifically for their environment. \u00a0And surprisingly, 8 percent said that they’ve purchased search tools but have either not installed or made the tool available to their users.<\/p>\n

Donald Thompson<\/a>, CTO of Maana, said that<\/a> “enterprise search has always been hobbled. It\u2019s not their fault, but they\u2019ve been hobbled by the fact that they\u2019re just looking at hits and documents. \u00a0Even Splunk, which has a great product, is a hits-in-documents kind of approach\u2026To me, this is entirely unsatisfying.”<\/p>\n

But enterprise search is evolving, even if perhaps slowly.<\/p>\n

Laurent Simoneau<\/a>, president and CTO of\u00a0Coveo, listed for the publication Knowledge Management<\/a> some of his predictions for 2016:<\/p>\n