Exclusive Interview with Seth Grimes, Alta Plana Now Available
June 9, 2010
In April 2010, I spoke with Seth Grimes, the founder of Alta Plana. Mr. Grimes is an analytics strategy consultant. He is founding chair of the Sentiment Analysis Symposium and of the Text Analytics Summit, contributing editor at Intelligent Enterprise magazine, and text analytics channel expert at the Business Intelligence Network. He founded Washington DC-based Alta Plana Corporation in 1997. Mr. Grimes consults, writes, and speaks on information-systems strategy, data management and analysis systems, industry trends, and emerging analytical technologies.
In the interview, he highlighted one of the challenges search and content processing systems face. He said:
I’ve in the past characterized search as evidence of a failure of design. If information were correctly and adequately categorized and organized and made accessible, we wouldn’t need search, would we? I’ve retreated from that view as I’ve seen search evolve into information access, into technology that not only finds but also organizes results from sources the user likely-as-not didn’t know about. Yet I’d call my statement still largely true when it comes to the enterprise’s own data holdings: Search is necessitated by a failure of design. Do a better job organizing information as it’s created or acquired, and also, by the way, stop allowing application vendors to bring in siloed search applications, and the in-organization situation will improve.
To read the full interview, navigate to Search Wizards Speak and click on the Seth Grimes’ interview or click this link.
Stephen E Arnold, June 9, 2010
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Very interesting article…
Great! Article