Is Enterprise Search Embracing Data Management?
July 13, 2011
As the economic noose tightens around the next of some enterprise search vendors, some remarkable transformations are underway. Who thought that the motion picture Transformers would presage the remarkable shift of brute force search to customer support (an oxymoron?), eDiscovery, and business intelligence. I am indeed surprised.
If companies have become the equivalent of data hoarders, then firms like Brainware are the professional organizer called in get things under control. As reported in RedOrbit’s “Brainware Launches Cloud-Based Intelligent Data Capture,” the vendor has launched Brainware Distiller, a service for the automation of document-centric business processes. The write up asserted:
Hosted on Microsoft’s Azure platform, Brainware becomes the first intelligent data capture vendor to make the transition to software-as-a-service.
The online solution uses a patented template-free data extraction method. Think trigrams. Not sure what these are? Click and read this write up which makes a three letter sequence more exciting than I thought possible.
Brainware has done a good job of moving from search to eDiscovery, to enterprise search, to online public access catalog search, and to back office paper processing, optical character recognition, work flow and forms processing.
Agility, thy name is Brainware. Can other enterprise search vendors with or without trigrams match this acrobat of information retrieval?
Stephen E Arnold, July 13, 2011
Sponsored by Stephen E Arnold, author of The New Landscape of Enterprise Search
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Hmmm…isn’t data management rather at the heart of enterprise search? If data isn’t properly managed, search retrieval is much more difficult. Of course, there are those enterprise search companies, like Perfect Search, that excel at searching through unstructured data. Still, data management has to be a key component of enterprise search.