Beyond Search: February 2008 Archives

We'll be publishing our special report by Stephen Arnold, Beyond Search: What to do When you're Enterprise Search System Doesn't Work soon - most likely at the beginning of April, and have set-up a page where you can sign-up to be notified when the report will be available at http://gilbane.com/beyond-search.html. There will also be a special price for early orders and we'll be providing that info shortly.

Steve has also set-up a page describing the report at: http://www.arnoldit.com/beyond-search/about-beyond-search.html, and has a blog where he is providing some supplementary material. Also keep an eye on Lynda's blog where she might have some comments while she is doing some editing.

As many of you know from our press release at Gilbane Boston, two of the reports we will be publishing in the next few of months have to do with search. Lynda Moulton, who runs our Enterprise Search consulting practice is working on Enterprise Search Markets and Applications: Capitalizing on Emerging Demand, and our colleague Steve Arnold is writing Beyond Search: What to do When you’re Enterprise Search System Doesn’t Work. Lynda's report covers the "Enterprise Search" market, what organizations are doing with the variety of technologies considered to be enterprise search products, and what their experiences have been. By the way Lynda is collecting experiences about implementations and would love to hear about yours.

Steve's report is a look at what is coming next, and is largely, but not only, based on an analysis of what Google is doing, what they are planning on doing, and the emerging ecosystem they are creating. This is fascinating stuff. Steve has recently launched a must-read blog, Beyond Search, where you can get a peek at some of what will be in our report. For example, see his thoughts on enterprise search terminology.

Both reports will be important tools for enterprise IT strategists and executives. We'll keep you posted on their progress.