Search 2009: The Arnold Boye08 Lecture
November 11, 2008
What began as a routine speech became a more definitive statement of my views about enterprise search in 2009. I delivered a lecture on this topic to a standing room only crowd in Aarhus, Denmark, at the JBoye 08 conference. The conference organizer asked me to provide a version of my talk for the conference attendees who were unable to attend my lecture. I have now posted the full text of my remarks on the ArnoldIT.com Web site. You can read the PDF of this lecture here.
Let me highlight several of the features of this talk, which concatenated remarks I have made about the future of search over the last 90 days:
- I identify the major trends that I am watching in the enterprise search “space”. I don’t dig into social search and some of the more trendy topics. I identify what will keep people using a system and those responsible for search and content processing in their jobs.
- I highlight a small number of companies that I think are going to be important in 2009. I mention five companies, but I have a much longer list of promising players. These five are examples of what is going to drive search success going forward.
- I spell out some meta challenges that vendors and licensees face. To give one example of what’s in this short list, think SharePoint. With 100 million licensees, SharePoint is likely to have as significant an impact on enterprise information access as Google. But there is a dark side to SharePoint, and I mention it in this report.
I have one request. Feel free to use the information for your personal learning. If you are engaged in teaching, you may reproduce the document and invite your students to critique my ideas. If you are a consultant shopping for a phrase or idea to borrow, that’s okay. Just point back to my original document. I see many “beyonds” now. Beyond Google, Beyond Business Intelligence, and so on. I expect that “just there” search will experience similar diffusion. Of course, if you just pirate my phrasing, I think the addled goose will point out this activity. Geese can lay golden eggs; geese can spoil an automobile’s finish as well.
As always, I have had to cut material from this write up. You may point out my errors, omissions, and shortcomings in the comments section to this Web log. Keep in mind that this Web log is free, and it is an easy way for me to keep track of my ideas and lectures.
Stephen Arnold, November 12, 2008
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