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IntraTeam Event Copenhagen 2020 aka The European DEX Conference
Around 220 delegates decided that the benefits of attending IntraTeam Event Copenhagen 2020 outweighed the coronavirus risks and were rewarded with a change in thematic direction and some outstanding presentations. IntraTeam Event 2020 was the 15th conference but also...
A history of enterprise search 2010 – 2019
From 2010 to 2013 there was a rapid consolidation in the enterprise search business. Between 2010 and 2012 Exalead was acquired by Dassault (2010), Autonomy by Hewlett Packard (2011), Endeca by Oracle (2011), Vivisimo by IBM (2012) and ISYS Search by Lexmark (2012)....
The secret world of enterprise search behaviours
Thousands of research papers have been published on how users search web applications, either general purpose global web search or more specialized applications such as e-commerce. However there have been very few studies of how enterprise searchers are carried out....
Intranet Design Annual 2020 Part 2 – Profiles of the ten winners
In Part 1 of this review of the NNGroup Intranet Design Annual 2020 I summarized some of the trends and insights noted by the report authors (Kara Pernice, Patty Caya, Maria Rosala and Anna Kaley) as they worked through the profiles of the ten award-winning intranets....
Intranet Design Annual 2020 Part 1 – trends and insights
Every year in mid-January I get a polite message from the Nielsen Norman Group asking me if I would like to have a copy of the Intranet Design Annual. As if I could ever say ‘No!” 108Mb later and my initial reaction to the 2020 edition was ‘Wow!’ because...
Some perspectives on collaboration
Over the last couple of months, I have come across a number of excellent commentaries on the art and science of collaboration. First up come two contributions from Michael Sampson, whose Twitter handle is @collabguy. Back in 2011 Michael wrote a book entitled The...
Troubleshooting Search in SharePoint Online – Mikael Svenson
This year I had the pleasure of working with Agnes Molnar on a project where the client was (by default) using SharePoint Online as the search application but had absolutely no idea of how to optimize search performance. Listening to Agnes made me realise that the...
Time for reflection and innovation
At the start of my career the two most technically sophisticated elements in my organisation were an IBM Selectric golf-ball typewriter and a high-pressure diecasting machine that was the first in the world to have real-time printout of all the parameters of the...
SharePoint ‘Intranet-in-a-box’ report Version 5.0 now available from ClearBox Consulting
At one point in my heterogeneous career I was a judge for the awards given by the Directory Publishers’ Association. Sitting at my desk in Reed Publishing reviewing the submissions a very experienced publisher put his head around the door, breathed deeply for effect,...
Attivio and Autonomy – what does the future hold?
thereforIn the period from 2007 to 2013 a number of small enterprise search software companies were acquired by some of the leading global IT players. The process was started off by Microsoft (with FAST Search) and then IBM (Vivisimo), Oracle (Endeca), Dassault...
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