Blog entries tagged EnterpriseSearch

Best Open Source Applications

Paul Walsh — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:23:19 +0100

The InfoWorld best of open source (BOSSIE) awards are just out. Here's a link to a slideshow of the best applications.

It's a very interesting list and it's pleasing to see that we have CogniDox plug-ins to support data exchange with at least three of them - SugarCRM, Drupal and Apache Solr. Being on this list is one piece of supporting data for why we might also choose to support the others.

But seeing Apache Solr on the list made me question use of the term "applicatio...

Now Where Did I Put That Document?

Paul Walsh — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:32:13 +0100

IT Reseller Magazine (http://www.itrportal.com/) is today reporting a survey by Networked Planet (an Enterprise Search software company based in Oxford, UK) that shows 52% of office employees admit they have saved a document to the Company intranet or network (shared drives) and never been able to find it again. Around 39% of them say it's because no-one told them where to file the document, as there were no company guidelines.

The solution of course is better Enterprise Search. It...

Lucene/Solr full text search gets more kudos

Paul Walsh — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:02:21 +0100

CMS Wire has posted an article on full text search in web and enterprise content management and concludes that Lucene with Solr is the de facto choice.

The reasons given aren't new - the quality of the search results, the stability of the (open source) software, the utility of the APIs, etc are all cited. It doesn't mention some of the major sites that now use Lucene/Solr - I find that the LinkedIn search experience is particularly enhanced by use of it.

But it vi...

Some 2010 Predictions for Content Management Technology

Paul Walsh — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:19:14 +0100

CMS Watch is a great site for learning about document management, web content management, enterprise content management, enterprise portals, web analytics, and enterprise search solutions. It's mandatory reading for those of us making products, and definitely worth the time of any buyer who needs to select a product in this area.

This week they published their predictions for what is likely to happen in 2010. They were also brave and smart enough to assess how well their 2009 predi...

Open Source Enterprise Search is a Hot Topic

Paul Walsh — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:00:00 +0100

We published a paper just two days ago on open source Enterprise Search tools such as Lucene/Solr and Xapian/Flax which basically asked whether these tools are now comparable for this purpose with the proprietary products from the likes of Autonomy and Microsoft FAST?

It's a very hot topic at the moment, and Matt Asay (VP Business Development, Alfresco) covers Lucene/Solr in particular in his CNET blog.

At the risk of simplification, the answer is more or less "yes", but the i...

Search and the Flax search client

Vittal Aithal — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Recently, we've been completely re-working the core CogniDox search functionality. When we initially wrote CogniDox, we were looking for a fast, open source search engine we could easily tailor to our needs. As it turned out, we chose swish-e and it has served us well in the ensuing years.

Well, times change, and we now have to cater for multi-site, multi-cluster installations with large, multilingual document sets. While swish-e is simple to setup and use, it lacks several featur...

Content management - how smaller companies can learn from larger Enterprises

Paul Walsh — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Recently, I got around to reading the AIIM "State of the ECM Industry 2009" report published at the end of March. It's based on a survey of 568 respondents, with a majority (52%) from large organizations (1000+ employees). There was a high percentage (21%) of people from the local and national Government sector, and there was a distinct US & Canada (61%) skew.

What struck me about the report was that it could be seen as a prescription for smaller companies and startups, along the...