Landscape of Search Order Form Live
June 8, 2011
Pandia.com, the publisher of “The New Landscape of Enterprise Search”, has posted an information page and a link to an order form. This new study takes a frank, objective look at the market for enterprise search systems and six leading vendors. Unlike the “pay to play” studies and conferences, the 150 page report provides the detail procurement teams and business professionals need to decide which system best suits a particular findability problem.
The report answers a number of questions which are routinely overlooked, ignored, or unknown to some of the organizations writing “pay to play” reports about vendors; for example:
- What was the status of the rewrite of Fast ESP prior to the purchase of the company by Microsoft in 2008?
- What technical methods cause certain scaling challenges in some Endeca and Vivisimo implementations?
- How do the platforms of Autonomy and Exalead compare in multi content deployments for enterprise applications?
- Why are most procurements won by a small number of vendors despite dozens, if not hundreds of lower cost options?
- What are the cost implications of Google’s GSA pricing method for the GB 7007 and GB 9009?
- What’s the outlook for search innovation in the next nine to 12 months?
This report goes beyond Stephen E Arnold’s 2008 report on content processing for the Gilbane Group, the Successful Enterprise Search Management monograph for Galatea in 2009, and his three studies of Google’s now-ageing search technology in the Google trilogy, published by Infonortics. Significant additional investigation via interviews and hands on involvement with search technology propel this report well beyond his first three editions of the Enterprise Search Report, 2004 to 2007.
If you are involved in enterprise search, you will want to get a copy of this report which discusses search solutions available from Autonomy, Endeca, Exalead, Google, Microsoft (Fast Search), and Vivisimo. The report includes a table providing brief facts about two dozen other systems, including open source options.
What sets the report apart is that the information in the new report does not duplicate the information which is available without charge in the Search Wizards Speak collection of more than 50 interviews with experts in search and retrieval or Mr. Arnold’s blogs about search and content processing: Beyond Search and Inteltrax.com
You can access the Pandia.com description of the report and the order form at http://www.pandia.com/enterprise-search/. The report costs $20 and is available as a PDF file.
Don Anderson, June 8, 2011
The post was sponsored by Stephen E Arnold
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