Search Wizards Speak Interviews

June 15, 2008

One of the handful of people who read my musings in this Web log told me that it was hard to locate the interviews with influential people in the enterprise search market. You can find the index to the 18 interviews at http://www.arnoldit.com/search-wizards-speak/ or click on this link.

On Monday, we will post another interview. This one is particularly exciting because it takes a look at a company with sophisticated technology based on search, database and content processing. The firm provides a solution of which search and indexing are components. I will give you one clue: the firm is growing at a double-digit pace in the enterprise publishing system sector. The company competes with some of the Big Names in search as well as with firms that are off the radar of many information access vendors. We’ll post the new interview on Monday, June 16, 2008. With this interview, I am going to take a hiatus because it is becoming quite difficult to reach people over the summer period in the United States.

However, I will be posting brief profiles of companies in the search and content processing sector. These will be updated on an irregular basis, and I will post an index page to these profiles. I want to create several test profiles, gauge reader reaction, and then finalize a standard format for the information.

Here are the direct links to the interviews completed through June 12, 2008. These are listed in alphabetical order.

Company	Interview Subject	Date of Interview
Attivio	Ali Riaz	26-May-08
Bitext	Antonio S. Valderrábanos	14-Apr-08
Blossom Software	Alan Feuer, Ph.D.	18-Feb-08
Brainware	James Zubok	31-Mar-08
Coveo Solutions Inc.	Laurent Simoneau	11-Mar-08
Deep Web Technologies	Abe Lederman	10-Jun-08
Endeca	Pete Bell	17-Mar-08
Exalead	François Bourdoncle	25-Feb-08
Intelligenx	Iqbal & Zubair Talib	12-May-08
ISYS Search Software	Ian Davies	5-Mar-08
Kroll	David Chaplin	28-Apr-08
Northern Light	David Seuss	2-Jun-08
PolySpot	Olivier Lefassy	19-May-08
Silobreaker	Mats Bjore	12-Jun-08
Sinequa	Jean Ferré	21-Apr-08
Thunderstone	John Turnbull	7-Apr-08
Vivísimo	Raul Valdes-Perez & Jerome Pesenti	24-Mar-08
ZyLAB	Johannes Scholtes	5-May-08

A special thanks to the executives who participated in the interviews. I extended invitations to Microsoft and Fast (sorry, we can’t talk to you), Google (no one responded including the top gun in enterprise search David Girouard), and Autonomy’s Andrew Kanter (no, can’t talk. Life is too manic). Too bad for me, I guess. For the folks who could talk, were thoughtful enough to respond to email, and in control of their time–thank you and a contented quack, quack.

Stephen Arnold, June 15, 2008

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Enterprise, News, Online (general), Search

Comments

Comments are closed.

Search the site
Subscribe to Beyond Search
Feature archive
News archive

Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.