Digimind Releases Digimind Mobile
May 1, 2012
Digimind users can now put that power in their pockets, provide they use an i-device. “Discover Digimind on the Go! Now Available in the App Store,” crows Digimind’s Web site. The write up states:
“In today’s fast-paced working environment, you need access to business critical information while on the move. With Digimind mobile you can receive and validate alerts, add information and share with colleagues as you travel between meetings or commute to and from work. The flexibility that comes with the Digimind app gives you a real competitive edge.”
With the mobile tool, one can receive alerts and alert validations, forward content, and add information to folders. Its App Store page is here.
Digimind‘s global client list includes organizations from a broad range of industries. Its works to save its clients time and money by automating and streamlining the collection, analysis, and sharing of data. The company boasts of having turned a profit from day one, and of growing by 50% annually.
Cynthia Murrell, May 1, 2012
Sponsored by Ikanow
An Expensive Recipe for Search Traffic
May 1, 2012
Remember the good old days of 1993. A person could browse a list of new sites. Most Web sites then got some traffic. Today, getting traffic is not like 1993. (Is there an artist formerly known as Prince to write a tune about the shift?)
I read a recipe for traffic which appears in “Google’s Perfect Quality Score Sauce.” Among the tips are buying more keywords. Positive keywords and negative keywords are in the list of ingredients. But the operative words are “add more keywords.” Yep, spend more, get more.
The write up’s content comes from a Googler named Tanmay, but the important point is that key to traffic is a blend of cordon bleu methods which involve buying AdWords.
Will spending money produce clicks? The answer is, “Yes.” The reason is that without some type of exogenous lift, traffic to Web sites both desktop anchor and mobile on-the-wing are a bit like the income distribution in the US. One percent of the sites get the traffic. The other 99 percent do not.
The fact is creating a crisis of sorts among marketers who are pumping six figures into Web sites which yield a meager 2,000, 10,000, or 20,000 uniques.
Now the proper response to a CFO who questions the inefficiency of a traditional Web site is, “If we make one sale, the Web site pays for itself. And we get leads.”
One hopes the CFO says, “Okay, give me one sheet of paper with the sales the Web site has made in the last 30 days and a list of top 10 leads which have come from your Web efforts.”
Bad news, of course. Metrics are easy to talk about, but they are tough to map to hard dollars.
The good news about the sad state of traffic for most Web sites is that those who sell clicks, eyeballs, traffic, or other clever “evidence” of success is that Google will benefit. This is different from the good old days when a Web site was an event. Today a Web site is a distraction, an expensive distraction.
Stephen E Arnold, May 1, 2012
Sponsored by Ikanow, which delivers analytics that answer questions
GSX Streamlines SharePoint Monitoring
May 1, 2012
Every SharePoint developer knows that a SharePoint infrastructure requires a lot of love and attention. Monitoring is essential to heading off major problems. GSX Solutions is now offering an automated way to monitor enterprise environments. Market Watch gives a full report in, “GSX Assures Around-the-Clock Performance for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint.”
GSX Solutions, the global leader in proactive, consolidated monitoring and reporting of enterprise collaboration environments, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and Lotus Notes, today announced its latest release of GSX Monitor & Analyzer assures around-the-clock availability and performance for Exchange 2010 and SharePoint. The new release provides pinpoint alerts that enable Exchange and SharePoint administrators to head off emerging issues before they impact the business and dramatically reduce user complaints.
Claiming that the service can alert you to your emerging enterprise issues before they impact the line of business, GSX definitely has a market. Such monitoring can save a SharePoint team a lot of costly time and energy in manual monitoring. We think an addition of a third-party enterprise solution may also help ensure that problems do not occur in the first place.
The suite of solutions offered by Fabasoft Mindbreeze lead the pack in terms of interoperability and ease of use. They function on their own or in addition to an existing SharePoint installation. Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise is an intuitive, efficient enterprise alternative, that has been proven to save users time and improve user satisfaction.
Be well informed – quickly and accurately. The data often lies distributed across numerous sources. Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise gains each employee two weeks per through focused finding of data (IDC Studies). An invaluable competitive advantage in business as well as providing employee satisfaction.
It is important to have a lot of tools at your disposal when overseeing a large SharePoint installation. But as hotly anticipated as SharePoint 2013 may be, we believe that the wave of the future will be smart, agile third party solutions such as the ones created by Fabasoft Mindbreeze. Be sure to check out all that they have to offer.
Emily Rae Aldridge, May 1, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Global Future for Manufacturing and Product Development
May 1, 2012
CIMdata, Inc., a consulting and research firm focusing on product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, recently sponsored PLM Market & Industry Forums in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Heidelberg, Germany; Shanghai, China; and Tokyo, Japan.
These forums offered an opportunity for over 150 representatives from various PLM-centered academic entities and technology and service providers to learn specifics about the state and trends of the PLM market, particularly in regards to market growth across the PLM industry as well as the performance of the leading regional and global enterprises offering PLM solutions. CIMdata also plans to release a PLM Market Analysis Report series, which will provide more details about the global PLM market and will include a volume focusing on China.
In a press release entitled “CIMdata Successfully Completes Global PLM Market & Industry Forum Program” that recently appeared online at 24-7pressrelease.com, Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s director of research, underscored the value of these activities:
“The sessions provide a great way for members of the PLM economy to learn about the common challenges they face, and to get to know and network with other firms that they may not meet in the competitive marketplace.”
Inforbix, a provider of cloud-based product data management solutions for companies in a variety of industries and locations, strongly supports the innovation and networking fostered by such events as these and looks forward to the collaborative results that may emerge in the global PLM industry.
Tonya Weikel, May 1, 2012
Buried Alive by Data
May 1, 2012
This recent blog post on the Search Technologies’ Web site makes some amusing and thought provoking comparisons between the reality TV show “Hoarding, Buried Alive!”, and the state of unstructured data within some organizations.
This phrase—I am absolutely overwhelmed by this, I just don’t know where to start” — is attributed to both a hoarder on a TV show. The speaker is contemplating how to tackle a sink piled with dirty dishes. The phrase also applies to an enterprise search program manager contemplating how to begin a project.
The article, Buried Alive by Data is worth a read for the amusement value alone. However, it also makes some important points. Discipline and due process are key part of the success recipe. For enterprise search, the award-winning search assessment methodology is cited as a proven approach to project discipline. The comparison made between the lawlessness of a hoarder’s kitchen and the average corporate file share may seem somehow familiar to many readers.
Iain Fletcher, May 1, 2012
Sponsored by Search Technologies
Constellio Profile Now Available
May 1, 2012
If you are tracking open source search, you can download a free profile of Doculibre’s Constellio system. Each week, ArnoldIT will make available a profile of an open source search vendor. You can request a copy of this week’s profile from our TheSeed2020 site. We leave each new profile “live” for one week. If you want the complete set, you will need to request each profile when the file becomes available.
The full collection will comprise 12 profiles. Once each profile has been available without charge, the full collection plus the market analysis and outlook sections will be available in a single PDF file for a service charge.
Stephen E Arnold, May 1, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT
Scholarpedia a Valuable Resource
May 1, 2012
We’d like to share a useful resource we’ve come across: Scholarpedia.org is a searchable, peer-reviewed online scientific encyclopedia. Its contributors are respected authorities in their fields, including an impressive list of Nobel Laureates and Fields Medalists. The areas covered include: Dynamical Systems, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Computational Neuroscience, and Touch.
Articles are curated by prominent authorities who take responsibility for the contents. As trusted custodians, these shepherds are also able to sponsor new articles.
The format of Scholarpedia should look familiar. The site’s About page explains:
“Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program — MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to read and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link. However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very important ways.”
Ways like a strict modification approval process, the selection of elite authors, and the curator review system. The statement goes on to emphasize the advantages the online community brings to the traditional scholarly paper:
“. . . Articles are not frozen and outdated, but dynamic, subject to an ongoing process of improvement moderated by their curators. This allows Scholarpedia to be up-to-date, yet maintain the highest quality of content.”
The site is well worth checking out for all you science types.
Cynthia Murrell, May 1, 2012
Sponsored by Augmentext
Ikanow and Carahsoft Bring Infinit.e to Government
May 1, 2012
Here at Beyond Search we often report on tech partnerships that will result in improved search technology. In this vein, Yahoo News recently published “IKANOW and Carahsoft Partner to Bring Open Analytics and Agile Intelligence to Government,”a news release on an important new partnership to look out for.
According to the article, government IT solutions provider Carahsoft Technology Corp and the open analytics platform developer IKANOW have joined together to bring IKANOW’s Infinit.e data and knowledge discovery platform, built on open source technologies, to the U.S. public sector market. Whereas IKANOW will be in charge of product development, Carahsoft will focus on sales and marketing activities to educate the market.
The article states:
“Infinit.e is an all-in-one knowledge discovery tool with an intuitive browser-like interface and powerful algorithms that automatically find relevant information, determine connections and present results in easily understood diagrams, saving time, increasing confidence and improving communications.”
This cloud based analyst platform will allow companies to quickly and easily sort and analyze mass amounts of structured and unstructured data and could make a big impact on our government’s ever expanding demand for research tools.
Jasmine Ashton, May 1, 2012
Sponsored by Augmentext
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