Interview with Janus Boye: New Search Tutorial
February 18, 2009
In the last three years, Janus Boye, Managing Director of JBoye in Denmark, has been gaining influence as a conference organizer. In 2009, Mr. Boye is expanding to the United Kingdom and the United States. Kenny Toth, ArnoldIT.com, spoke with Mr. Boye on February 17, 2009. The full text of the interview appears below.
Why are you sponsoring a tutorial with the two enterprise search experts, Martin White and Stephen Arnold?
Personally I’m very fascinated with search as it is one of complex challenges of the web that remains essentially unsolved. For a while I’ve wanted to create a seminar on search that would cover technology, implementation and management to really assist our many community of practice members that on a regular basis tells me that search is broken. Some of them have invested heavily in software and found that even the most expensive software products does not solve successful search alone. Some of them have also found their vendor go either bankrupt or become acquired. Beyond vendors, many members have underestimated the planning required to make search work. Martin White and Stephen Arnold have recently published a new report on Successful Enterprise Search Management, which the seminar is modeled after.
Janus Boye. http://www.jboye.com
What will the attendees learn in the tutorial?
My goal is that at the end of the seminar, attendees will understand the business and management issues that impact a successful implementation. The attendees will learn about how the marketplace is shifting, what skills you need in your team, what can go wrong and how you avoid it, and how you get the most out of your consultants and vendors.
Isn’t search a stale subject? What will be new and unusual about this tutorial.
Search is far from a stable subject. If you are among those that use SharePoint every day, you know that search still have a long way to go. Come to the seminar and learn about the larger trends driving the market as well as recent developments, such as the Microsoft FAST roadmap
Will these be lectures or will there be interactivity between the experts and the audience?
The agenda for the seminar is done so that there will be plenty of room for interactivity. The idea is that delegates can get answers to their burning questions. There will be room for Q & A, and some sessions are also divided into sub-groups so that delegates can discuss their challenges in smaller groups.
If I attend, what will be the three or four takeaways from this show?
There will be several takeaways at the seminar, in particular around themes such as content, procurement, implementation, security, social search, language and the vendor marketplace.
Where is the tutorial and what are the details?
The tutorial will be held in London, UK. See http://www.jboye.co.uk/events/workshop-successful-enterprise-search-management-q209/ for more.
Kenny Toth, February 18, 2009
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