EntropySoft: Exclusive Interview with Nicolas Maquaire, CEO
March 25, 2009
A search engine or content processing system is deaf and dumb without a connector to a content source. Most text processing systems include these software connectors (sometimes called “filters” or “adaptors”) to process flat text such as the ASCII generated by a simple text editor. But plain text makes up a small part of the content stored on an organization’s file servers, workstations, and computers. In order to index content from a legacy AS/400 system running the Ironsides enterprise resource planning system, a specialized software connector is required. Writing these connectors is tricky. EntropySoft is a content integration company. The firm has a strong competency in creating software to perform a range of content manipulations; for example, content transformation of an XML file into a file type required by another business process or enterprise system. Mr. Maquaire spoke with Stephen E. Arnold, ArnoldIT.com on March 24, 2009, about EntropySoft’s software and services.
Nicolas Maquaire, the chief executive officer, of EntropySoft described his company this way:
EntropySoft is a connector factory. We have more than 30 read/write connectors for unstructured data, possibly the biggest portfolio on the market. Our connectors enable most of the features of popular content-centric applications such as Alfresco, IBM FileNet P8, Hummingbird DM, Interwoven TeamSite, IBM Lotus Quickplace, Microsoft SharePoint etc… The extensive support of features and the size of the connector portfolio make this technology perfect OEM material for many software industries. On top of the read / write connectors, EntropySoft has two technological layers (Content ETL and Content Federation) that are also available as OEM components.
A number of the world’s leading search and content processing companies use EntropySoft’s connectors. Examples include Coveo, Exalead, and Image Integration Systems.
Mr. Maquaire, in an exclusive interview with ArnoldIT.com’s Search Wizards Speak series, said:
The market for content integration is complex. Building a single connector for a specific use case seems nonsensical to us. If you develop many connectors, interoperability then becomes reality. Thanks to its more than 30 (and growing!) connectors, EntropySoft is becoming a one-stop-shopping point for connectivity and interoperability. For the past four years, EntropySoft has acquired valuable knowledge on all popular content-centric systems. EntropySoft connectors have been market-tested for years. EntropySoft connectors are put to work daily in critical business conditions, and EntropySoft unique in-house developed testing system allows fast implementation of customer-driven connectors improvements.
You can read the full-text of the Maquaire interview on the ArnoldIT.com Web site here. The interview is number 37 in this series. The interviews provide one of the most useful bodies of information about enterprise search and content processing available at this time. The Search Wizards Speak is available as a service to organizations and information professionals worldwide. Knowledge about search and content processing increases the payoff from an investment in information retrieval.
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