A Big Year for Search, Expect More in the Future
November 27, 2012
The year 2012 has been one of the biggest for search and data. Big Data has been and will be the list term when it comes to analyzing data and finding new business insights. Search has made many big leaps as well and the BDaily Business News Network ran down the achievements and what we can expect in 2013 in the article, “Search, the Future, and the Big Data World.”
About 80% of the data generated in the workplace is unstructured—meaning humans have created it. Before unstructured data can be searched it needs to be preprocessed, which leads to Big Data. Enterprise search developers are well aware of the need to normalize unstructured data and have created technology this past year that makes the process quicker and reliable. It helps put back the human element, the “why” the data was came into existence in the first place.
Fat piles continue to grow and even with Big Data software, one key component remains the same: search.
The article puts it this way:
“Despite these acquisitions, enterprise search continues to be of growing importance in its own right. The process of finding information becomes more difficult as data sizes scale. At the same time, in the information economy, finding information – whether it is to check a fact, retrieve a known document, or conduct new research into a subject – remains a critical part of the process of doing business…In conclusion, a well-implemented enterprise search system remains a key component for driving business productivity.”
Search is and will always remain one of the core essential functions of the Big Data game. Search pares down the irrelevant data to pull out the key facts a user is looking for. Data is only as useful as long as it can be found. It still remains a quick fact that software designed specifically for search proves to be a good investment on the part of Big Data. LucidWorks, the search experts, have been ingrained in the Big Bata boom since the start and have developed a search application useful for developers and end users alike.
Whitney Grace, November 27, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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