Are You Ready for Enterprise Search? Nope
March 19, 2010
A reader sent me a link to a white paper from Silicon.com. I clicked the link and was presented with a download request form. I apparently filled a similar form out years ago because I was asked to update my information. I did so. I was then given another page from which to click a link to download a white paper from MobilVox, Inc.
The title? “Are We Ready for Enterprise Search.” The subtitle? “Text analytics and intelligent agents cannot be overlooked.” No problem with the title but the text of the white paper was two pages. This is more of a flier or a fact sheet. A white paper is in my opinion somewhat more substantive. The last one I wrote was about 12 pages long, had diagrams, and included some hard metrics about the performance of a search system.
The white paper pointed me to www.irissearch.net, which through me.
The point of the white paper by MobilVox is to boil down what took me 300 pages to explain in three editions of my Enterprise Search Report to a publisher who, like a chameleon, changed its appearance, and Martin White and I filled 125 pages for Successful Enterprise Search Management, published by Galatea in 2009.
I don’t disagree with the information in the two page write up, but it is a bit short on detail. Here’s phase II of a search implementation:
Strategically select information repositories most critically important to the organization. Deploy the enterprise search solution with these core repositories. Scale up initial roll-out by adding more repositories and connectors to other legacy systems.
Martin and I explained the steps and some of the constituent nuances in 16 pages, and we chopped quite a bit of detail to meet the stipulations of our publisher in the UK.
If you want a white paper that gives you enterprise search on two sheets of paper, have at it. After you end up in a bit of a technical, managerial, and budget bind, drop me an email. seaky2000 at yahoo dot com. I won’t be able to help, but I like to keep track of potentially interesting case examples.
Stephen E Arnold, March 19, 2010
No one paid me to write about search challenges. I will report this sad state of affairs to the Department of Energy, an outfit with deep experience is search systems that are often interesting challenges to senior managers.
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