Mindbreeze Holds its Own in Forrester Assessment
April 23, 2012
Fabasoft Mindbreeze was included in a recent Forrester assessment of enterprise search offerings. Twelve vendor/products were analyzed, grouped into three categories: specialized, integrated, or detached. The official assessment will require an account to access, but CMS Wire does a good job of giving us the overview in, “Forrester Evaluates Enterprise Search Landscape, None Open Source.”
Today, the impetus for search enterprise search is much the same as it was decades ago: Finding information quickly. We just have exponentially more information and often have to find it more quickly. Despite the age of search, according to Forrester, many organizations don’t see enterprise search as a fundamental service like email. However, as content sizes continue to grow, become more diverse and the workplace is filled with a generation of web-savvy workers who just expect search to work, enterprise search solutions that help staff quickly locate information in disparate and diverse sources is becoming more of a necessity.
Here are a few of our initial observations:
First, we are just as shocked as the author at the lack of open source coverage. Open source is a growing force in the enterprise search market, driving innovation. Many of the successful commercial vendors are incorporating features pioneered in open source.
Secondly, Microsoft’s SharePoint offering, particularly its FAST search received no “excellent” ratings in any category. However, SharePoint is still seen as an obligatory tool for a broad enterprise infrastructure.
Lastly, Fabasoft Mindbreeze holds its own as a relatively small and young company amidst many big players such as IBM and Microsoft. Fabasoft Mindbreeze shines as a specialized tool, flexible and intuitive in meeting the specific needs of a fast moving market that are often overlooked by big infrastructures like SharePoint. In fact, many organizations use Mindbreeze as an add-on to an existing SharePoint infrastructure to increase efficiency and user satisfaction without costly customization.
Fabasoft Mindbreeze continues to win recognition, including an inclusion in KM World’s 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management for four years running.
Mindbreeze, a Fabasoft subsidiary and a leading provider of software for enterprise search and information access, is again listed among the 100 companies in knowledge management. Fabasoft Mindbreeze has thus made the grade for the fourth time.
Keep an eye on the fast moving world of enterprise search, and check out the offerings of Fabasoft Mindbreeze to see if they might be a good fit for your enterprise.
Emily Rae Aldridge, April 23, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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