Attivio Continues to Move Its Technology Forward
May 25, 2018
Conceived by former Fast Search & Transfer executives, Attivio has moved from a system able to analyze baseball statistics to enterprise search to business intelligence and probably several other market spaces. Enterprise search vendors do that these days.
Now the newest version of Attivio is here, we learn from the company’s blog post, “Attivio Product News: Version 5.5.1 Available Today!” The write-up describes improvements in several areas. With the updated software development kit (SDK), one can test code before deploying it to the platform. As for security, we’re told Attivio has migrated to a stronger algorithm and upgraded libraries to their latest versions. Text extraction has also been improved and now works with over 600 formats. Furthermore, access to recent modules is also included; the post promises:
“Finally, we’ve made the latest modules part of the install. This includes the WebCrawler module, which enables you to ingest web pages, as well as newly released Search Analytics and Search UI Toolkit. As we’ve written about previously, Search Analytics gives you insight into the performance of your search platform in real time. And SUIT, Attivio’s Search UI Toolkit, is a framework for quickly building search applications from the simplest to the most complex. It’s an open source application that can be downloaded from GitHub, and enhanced by the community. It not only works with the Attivio platform, but also with Elasticsearch and Solr.”
How Fast like is Attivio? A faint imprint of the genetic code is there, but Attivio has, like other search vendors, adopted proprietary and open source technology. The trick is the marketing today. Attivio is chugging along but it faces enterprise search challengers fueled by venture funding. What’s interesting is that money continues to flow into what I would describe as “traditional” enterprise search plays; for example, Coveo. The hurdle, of course, is to convert investors’ money and support into sustainable, growing, profit spinning revenue. And that’s a challenge from my point of view.
See the Attivio post for more details on each of the above improvements. Founded in 2007 (shortly before Fast Search’s implosion and the sale of the Fast property to Microsoft and the legal dust up about Fast Search’s “fast” math). Attivio’s seems to be hiring. That’s encouraging.
Cynthia Murrell, May 25, 2018
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