Concept Searching SharePoint White Paper

October 22, 2015

I saw a reference to “2015 SharePoint and Office 365 State of the Market Survey White Paper.” If you are interested in things SharePoint and Office 365, you can (as of October 15, 2015) download the 40 page document at this Concept Searching link. A companion webinar is also available.

The most interesting portion of the white paper is its Appendix A. A number of buzzwords are presented as “Priorities by Application.” Note that the Appendix is graphical and presents the result of a “survey.” Goodness, SharePoint seems to have some holes in its digital fabric.

The data for enterprise search are interesting.

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Source: Concept Searching, 2015

It appears that fewer than 20 percent of those included in the sample (not many details about the mechanics of this survey the data for which was gathered via the Web) do not see enterprise search as a high priority issue. About 30 percent of the respondents perceive search as working as intended. An equal number, however, are beavering away to improve their enterprise search system.

Unlike some enterprise search and content processing vendors, Concept Search is squarely in the Microsoft camp. With third party vendors providing “solutions” for SharePoint and Office 365, I ask myself, “Why doesn’t Microsoft address the shortcomings third parties attack?”

Stephen E Arnold, October 22, 2015

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