No connectors, no Enterprise Search

The Apprapids blog reveils that many companies are willing to migrate from proprietary search solutions to Open source Lucene/Solr ones. But the author suggests a misunderstanding about the abilities of the solution in itself: “It is interesting that any company would choose Solr as their search platform since they do not have any connectors. How [...]

Expertise Finding: Unlock the Knowledge within Your Company

In an organization, an answer may not be in a document. A colleague with particular subject matter expertise may be the resource an employee needs to solve a business problem. Traditional search systems are blind to these high-value knowledge sources. – Who is working on a particular topic? – Who knows about…? – Who can [...]

How Agile Enterprise Search Infrastructure Can Help CIOs? The value of agility

“In the world of IT, the term agile means the ability to respond quickly with all information easily accesible and enriched to enable business executives to make effective decisions,” notes Arnold IT. Our society is facing a data and content overload. Raw data are on the rise, and just as search is used for personal needs, the [...]