by Martin White | Jul 20, 2017 | Digital workplace, Reviews, Search
You may be surprised to know that I am embarrassed to be the author of the only four books so far published on enterprise search when on any other IT topic there are so many titles to choose from. All four books have been written for practitioners, with just enough...
by Martin White | Jul 6, 2017 | Collaboration, Digital workplace, Search
Surveys of the use of both enterprise search and intranet search invariably show that searching for information about other employees is one of the most important features. In practice searching for a name when you are not sure of the correct spelling, or the person...
by Martin White | Jul 6, 2017 | Digital workplace, Information Management, Search
I enjoyed reading The Black Door on a recent vacation. Written by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac it is the story of spies, secret intelligence and British Prime Ministers from 1908 to 2017. Many of the themes in the book mirror those in any organisation, such as...
by Martin White | Jun 16, 2017 | Digital workplace, Search
This is the third in a series of posts sparked by the recent publication by Gartner of a Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines and the Forrester report on Cognitive Search, in both cases making assessments of search vendors on their capabilities to deliver cognitive...
by Martin White | Jun 15, 2017 | Search
There is more work to do before I do a deep dive into the Gartner and Forrester reports. Patience! As Charlie Hull has highlighted in his blog post Natural Language Processing (NLP) is not a ‘new’ technology, and indeed is arguably not a technology at...
by Martin White | Jun 15, 2017 | Search
A number of members of the search implementation community have reservations about recent industry reports from Gartner and Forrester. Charlie Hull has already made some very good points about these reports, and I am about to support him and make some additional...
