by Martin White | May 24, 2017 | Information Management, Search
The announcement today that iManage had acquired Ravn Systems was not a great surprise to me. If ever there was an acquisition where there was a clear benefit from synergy this could be it. The technical competence of the Ravn team is not in doubt. Peter Wallquist and...
by Martin White | May 7, 2017 | Collaboration, Digital workplace, Search
There have been some interesting recent developments in the collaboration vendor business. At the beginning of last week Jive highlighted the importance of search, following up on a survey of search issues in the enterprise that the company released in March. The...
by Martin White | Apr 25, 2017 | Collaboration, Digital workplace, Search
Search and ML/AI vendors are pushing hard to exploit the apparent requirement for expertise search. I use the word ‘apparent’ because there is very little evidence about the scale of the requirement. Senior management teams may think it is a great idea...
by Martin White | Apr 18, 2017 | Search
Over the last few years I have been involved in many search projects where search does not seem to be delivering the value and user satisfaction that the organisation was anticipating. Without exception the core reason for this is that there is inadequate level...
by Martin White | Apr 18, 2017 | Search
Attivio, Coveo and Sinequa are just three vendors that are positioning themselves as being in the insight/cognitive search sector, playing down the ‘enterprise search’ label. Gartner has endorsed this approach in its latest Magic Quadrant on Insight...
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...
