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- Search Applications: The Future of Enterprise Search
- Enterprise search is changing. It's about immediate usability. Watch this new program and learn how to use search applications to improve daily decision-making, increase revenues, and cut costs in your organization.
- Tags: Endeca Technologies Inc., Enterprise Search, Cloud Computing, Search
- Webcasts 2009-10-09
- New Dell.com Boosts the Customer Experience While Reducing IT Effort
- Dell relies on its public Web site, Dell.com, as a key channel for its direct sales. To help customers more easily find the information they need and to simplify site management, Dell decided to redesign the underlying architecture of the site. It chose a solution based on Microsoft products and...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Dell Computer Corp., Dell.com, Information Technology, Customer Experience, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Search, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Why You Can't Just ~Google~ for Enterprise Knowledge
- This paper reviews opinion on the key differences between Internet Search using services such as Google or Bing and Enterprise Search behind the firewall. Some of the leading commercial Enterprise Search solutions are introduced, before comparison with Open Source alternatives (Swish-e, Lucene/Solr, Xapian/Flax and Sphinx). The experience in developing a...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Knowledge, Cognidox, Search, Cloud Computing
- White papers 2009-07-08
- Architecture Firm Gains $1.8 Million Annually in Billable Time From Search Solution
- Little has more than 10 terabytes of data that it needs to search on a regular basis to serve its clients, and thought that a Google appliance was the way to provide that ability - the price, however, was deemed unaffordable. Instead, Little got the search capability it would have...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Search
- Case studies 2009-06-24
- Staffing Company Simplifies, Automates Search to Efficiently Place Candidates
- Allegis Group, the largest privately held staffing company in the United States, manages a database of more than 11 million job candidates. Its 8,000 employees connect more than 60,000 contract employees with customers worldwide. To successfully place qualified people, Allegis needed to enable recruiters to efficiently search candidate information. To...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Staffing, Candidate, Search, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2009-06-18
- HP Solution for SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search Gives Hirschvogel Automotive Group the Competitive Edge
- The Hirschvogel Automotive Group's process documents set business standards for the whole of the company. However, these were often held at local subsidiaries and inaccessible to much of the global organisation. The company needed to increase the management and availability of its intellectual property. Following a consultation with HP, Hirschvogel...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Hewlett-Packard Co., SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, Competitive Edge LLC., Hirschvogel Automotive Group, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- MTCSC Google Search Appliance Deployment
- MTCSC specializes in applying integrated logistics support, enterprise solution development, engineering, technical and managerial expertise to solve the unique and complex challenges associated with Department of Defense DoD and Department of Homeland Security DHS operations. A MTCSC customer required rapid access to relevant data from 2500+ of data sources in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Search Appliance, Google Search, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Google Search Appliance, MTCSC, Cloud Computing, Search, Supply Chain, Networking, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-05-27
- Enterprise Search 360: Achieving a Single Search Platform Across the Enterprise
- Like many growing companies, National Instruments had accumulated a wide range of data sources over time, both structured and unstructured. There were at least four search platforms to access its array of data sources and different search engines were used for internal and external requests which was hampering customers' search...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, National Instruments Corp., Search
- Case studies 2009-05-25
- Search Firm Improves Server Monitoring, Lowers Costs With Centralized Monitoring Tool
- FAST is a leading developer of enterprise search technologies used by more than 2,600 customers. FAST wanted an easier, less expensive way to monitor 2,000 servers primarily running the UNIX and Linux operating systems. The company deployed the beta version of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. By managing...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Monitoring, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Search, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-05-02
- Financial Firm Empowers Global Staff With Flexible, Multilingual Search Solution
- Russell Investments is headquartered in Tacoma, Washington. As Russell expanded globally, it sought search solutions to keep up with the requirements of a multilingual workforce. Russell chose Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for its strategic value as an enterprise-scale information management solution and for its integrated search capabilities. Enterprise Search...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Information Management, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Russell Investments, Content Management, Search, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Microsoft updates its enterprise-search roadmap
- Microsoft officials are sharing a few new tidbits about the company's enterprise-search roadmap at the FASTForward '09 conference in Las Vegas this week. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Update, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Search, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Enterprise search: The target is moving
- Lucid Imagination, an open source enterprise search company is looking to compete with established players like Autonomy, Microsoft's FAST and Endeca, but the target is already shifting. Paula Rooney highlights Lucid CEO Eric Gries' open source enterprise search plan: Be the Red Hat of enterprise search. Lucid,...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Interwoven, Paul Miller, Cloud Computing, Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- Lucid aims to be top open source enterprise search player
- Lucid Imagination wants to be to enterprise search what Red Hat is to Linux. Â So says Eric Gries, CEO of the open source enterprise search software company, whose platform is based on Apache's Lucene and Solr open source projects. The San Mateo, Calif....
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Lucid Imagination, Lucene, Cloud Computing, Search, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-01-25
- Secure Enterprise Search: Version 10.1.8.4
- Internet searches have shown that significant information uplift can accrue from search technology. Without search engines, the Internet would still have billions of web pages, but surfers would have to know URLs a priori, or navigate through directories, to locate pages of interest. Clearly it is Search that makes Google...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Oracle Corp., Internet, Search
- White papers 2009-01-01
- TechNet Webcast: Which Enterprise Search Solution Is Right for My Business? (Level 100)
- The attendee of this webcast will learn about Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express along with the portfolio of enterprise search solutions that integrate with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and find the search solution needed to increase business productivity. In this webcast, the presenter will outline use-case scenarios for Search...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Webcast, Business Productivity, Microsoft Search Server 2008, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, Microsoft TechNet, Strategic Planning, Cloud Computing, Search, Collaboration, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts 2008-11-07
- Structuring the Haystack: Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search Solutions
- A researcher at The Data Warehousing Institute TDWI recently estimated that 80 percent of the information available in an average enterprise is unstructured and unavailable from any standard database management system. Sort of, but it can be better than that. Think about the results one normally gets back from a...
- Tags: Information Builders, Enterprise Search, Search, Databases, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2008-10-23
- Building a Business Strategy Around Search
- Reed Business is a division of Reed Elsevier, a world-leading publisher and information provider employing 36,000 people in over 200 locations worldwide. It needed to implement an Enterprise Search solution. Having undertaken a full review of the available Enterprise Search solutions, Reed Business chose FAST for its scalability, security, flexibility,...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Business Strategy, Reed Business, Cloud Computing, Search
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Enterprise Search Solution Provider Builds on the Concept of Partnership to Drive Business Benefits
- Concept Searching's unique, compound term processing technology for automatic metadata generation improves access to unstructured information for information workers in any mid-to large-sized corporation. Concept Searching wanted to expand its market, but with only a handful of sales representatives, the 20-employee firm didn't have the manpower. After becoming a Microsoft...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Partnership, Business Productivity, Benefit, Microsoft Corp., Strategic Planning, Collaboration, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2008-06-24
- Investment Bank Boosts Collaboration, Document Management, Enterprise Search
- As Piper Jaffray grew, so did its need for more effective collaboration, information sharing, and enterprise search capabilities in order to support its international workforce and business operations. The company worked with Inetium, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, to adopt a new collaboration and search solution based on Microsoft Office...
- Tags: Bank, Enterprise Search, Document Management, Investment, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Site, Enterprise Search Result, Cloud Computing, Search, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Investment Bank Boosts Collaboration, Document Management, Enterprise Search Ability
- Piper Jaffray, based in Minneapolis, is an international middle market investment bank and institutional securities firm with 1,200 employees worldwide. The company needed a better way to enable collaboration, document management, and enterprise search among thousands of documents and 28 offices worldwide. Piper Jaffray replaced an intranet site with an...
- Tags: Bank, Enterprise Search, Collaboration, Investment, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intranet, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Cloud Computing, Search, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2008-06-01
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