Zaizi: Search and Content Consulting
January 13, 2015
I received a call about Zaizi and the company’s search and content services. The firm’s Web site is at www.zaizi.com. Based on the information in my files, the company appears to be open source centric and an integrator of Lucene/Solr solutions.
What’s interesting is that the company has embraced Mondeca/Smartlogic jargon; for example, content intelligence. I find the phrase interesting and an improvement over the Semantic Web lingo.
The idea is that via indexing, one can find and make use of content objects. I am okay with this concept; however, what’s being sold is indexing, entity extraction, and classification of content.
The issue facing Zaizi and the other content intelligence vendors is that “some” content intelligence and slightly “smarter” information access is not likely to generate the big bucks needed to compete.
Firms like BAE and Leidos as well as the Google/In-Tel-Q backed Recorded Future offer considerably more than indexing. The need is to process automatically, analyze automatically, and generate outputs automatically. The outputs are automatically shaped to meet the needs of one or more human consumers or one or more systems.
Think in terms of taking outputs of a next generation information access system and inputting the “discoveries” or “key items” into another system. The idea is that action can be taken automatically or provided to a human who can make a low risk, high probability decision quickly.
The notion that a 20 something is going to slog through facets, keyword search, and the mind numbing scan results-open documents-look for info approach is decidedly old fashioned.
You can learn more about what the next big thing in information access is by perusing CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access at www.xenky.com/cyberosint.
Stephen E Arnold, January 14, 2015
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