by Martin White | Jul 24, 2017 | Conferences, Intranets
I’ve lost track of how many intranet conferences I have been to, though the first was in San Francisco in 1999 and led directly to the launch of Intranet Focus. Some have been outstanding (the first StepTwo event in 2012 as a perfect example), some have been...
by Martin White | May 24, 2017 | Intranets
When I was discussing a possible contribution I could make to the Intranets handbook now published by Kristian Norling at Intranatverk we quickly agreed that a history of intranet development might be a good way to start the book. Undertaking the research was a real...
by Martin White | Apr 11, 2017 | Intranets, Search
Another disappointment with the 2017 Google MQ for Insight Engines is the fixation of evaluating search applications by the quality of their auto-suggest functionality. As a caution against Sinequa Gartner comment that “reference customers did not indicate that...
by Martin White | Apr 10, 2017 | Digital workplace, Intranets
There is a lot of interest at present in bots to provide a conversational interface that will integrate data from multiple systems. Some of my search projects have in effect created bots in the development of search cards. A common implementation of a search card is...
by Martin White | Apr 6, 2017 | Intranets
There is a significant interest in intranet products at the present moment. These are by no means new, with Orchidsoft and Intranet Dashboard having been around since the late 1990s. The complexity of using SharePoint as an intranet platform has led to many Microsoft...
by Martin White | Apr 5, 2017 | Intranets
One of the features of the redesigned Intranet Focus Ltd web site is a list of intranet consultants. I can’t say that this was something I had been planning for some time. The initial idea came to me shortly before the IntraTeam Event in Copenhagen. I realised...
