Press Release: Gilbane Group Publishes New Report - Beyond Search: What to do When Your Enterprise Search System Doesn't Work
For Immediate Release:
Authored by Search Expert Stephen Arnold, report includes practical advice, a "beyond search" market map, profiles of 24 companies, and a glossary.
Cambridge MA, April 8, 2008. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a new special report, Beyond Search: What to do When Your Enterprise Search System Doesn't Work, by Stephen Arnold (http://gilbane.com/beyond-search.html). The 270-page study contains a discussion of how-to’s, so you can fix your broken enterprise search system. You will also find a detailed discussion of today’s market for search and content processing systems, with profiles of 24 selected vendors.
Enterprise Search
According to Stephen, "The study - a first in analysis of search and content processing - represents more than a year of research into text processing and information access. 'Enterprise search' has become devalued and is misleading, out-of-date, and a cause of the on-going confusion about information access." He adds, “Who wants a system that is expensive, slow, and makes the employee with a real information need do more work. Shouldn't search should make the employee’s job easier?”
Google
Mr. Arnold’s previous work on Google’s engineering, The Google Legacy (2005) and Google Version 2.0 (2007), provided a foundation for Beyond Search’s most remarkable revelation about Google. Sidestepping the routine description of the Google Search Appliance and Google Apps, Beyond Search reveals important, little-known information about Google’s dataspace technology. This technology - if commercialized by Google - has the potential to transform search and retrieval, adding greater potency to the “beyond search” idea.
Vendor Profiles
In the profiles of up-and-coming vendors, Mr. Arnold provides candid evaluations of each vendor’s technology plus practical comments about what the vendor’s core competency is. Steve says, “Each profile contains what I call a ‘net net’ section. I try to sum up in about 100 words exactly what you need to know about each vendor. There’s no ‘pay for coverage’ in this study. Vendors had a chance to push back on my assessments, but no vendor paid for an inclusion in this report. IT professionals often struggle to figure out if a report is objective. There’s no confusion in Beyond Search - vendors are included on merit alone.” Vendor profiles include: Access Innovations, Attensity Corporation, Bitext, Brainware, Inc., Cognition Technologies, Inc., Connotate Technologies, Dieselpoint Inc., Exalead, Exegy, IBM Corporation, Information Builders Inc., Intelligenx, IntelliSearch Inc., ISYS Search Software, Lexalytics Inc., Linguamatics Ltd., Microsoft Corp., PolySpot SAS, Recommind, SchemaLogic Inc., Siderean Software Inc., Thetus Corporation, Vivisimo Corp., and ZyLAB.
See an abbreviated outline.
Availability
The report is in electronic form in PDF format, and is available for immediate purchase and download. A workgroup license (up to 10) is $895 ($795 if ordered before April 25, 2008); an enterprise site license is $1595 ($1495 if ordered before April 25, 2008). Order and download now on our secure e-commerce site or see more detailed ordering information at http://gilbane.com/beyond-search.html.
There are a small number of review copies available for qualified press. To request a review copy send email to beyondsearch@gilbane.com
About Gilbane Group Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. We work with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. We have organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely read newsletter, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.
Contact:
Sarah G. Dionne
Gilbane Group Inc.
617.497.9443 ext 114
sarah@gilbane.com
