Search Application Perspectives For 2014
January 20, 2014
With 2014 well under way, search experts are trying to predict what will happen for enterprise search. Search Appliance World has an article that takes a look on enterprise search in the past and future called, “The New Search Appliance Landscape: Reflections And Predictions With MaxxCAT.” Basic search commands that come in out-of-the-box system are old school and do not provide the robust solution enterprise systems need.
Search appliances became enterprise users’ favorite toys and everyone had to have the Google Mini Search Appliance, but those days are gone. Other search developers, such as MaxxCat, stepped up to the plate.
The article states:
“ ‘In 2013, we saw a lot of the fallout from that as customers realized they couldn’t replace their Google Mini appliance and went looking for viable alternatives that weren’t $30K. For us, this lead to a huge boost in sales of our entry level appliances and even some additional sales of our enterprise series appliances,’ MaxxCAT Director of Marketing & Sales Chris Whissen told Search Appliance World.”
The MaxxCat developers were interested in exploring new markets their search appliance could expand into. The company is also big on customer service and ensuring that clients know they are valued. The biggest endeavor being made, though, is offering MaxxCat’s clients an efficient solution to solve their search problems and to encourage more competition in the search application market. Google is no longer the small player, but some of its solutions have grown too expensive for its former clients. New companies like MaxxCat keep the market fresh and offer up new ideas.
Whitney Grace, January 20, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
A User Friendly Search Tip from MarkLogic
January 20, 2014
Open source developers rely on code libraries their fellow developers have already written to complete their projects. This makes search engines and open source communities an invaluable tool. Blogs are another place to locate helpful code and the Developer Notes details one developer’s notes on XML, MARKLOGIC, XQUERY, XFORMS, XSLT, SCHEMA, JAVA, HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, XSSI AND OTHERS.
By searching through the blog’s archive, we found this old post entitled: “MarkLogic: Techniques For Querying In-Memory Fragments Using CTS:Contains.”
Here is what you will find in the post:
“This snippet demonstrates the use of cts:contains and cts:element-attribute-word-query on an in-memory fragment (something that has been stored in the Expanded Tree Cache using a let statement).”
As any kind developer who pulls from open source, the author posts the code for anyone to use in their project. We occasionally find neat little tricks like this tucked away in the Internet. Sadly, many of them can get lost and are left in the hidden Web, which is we rely on deep Web crawler content wrangler. Developers need a robust search engine to find good code. Sometimes the big guns like Google do not work.
Whitney Grace, January 20, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Sail Labs Sets Up a One Stop Download Shop
January 20, 2014
Rather than having to read and click through an entire Web site, Sail Labs Technology took a page out of simplicity’s book and placed all of their information in the Download Center. Sail Labs does not dump all of their information in one part of the Web site and wish visitors good luck. They follow the usual Web 2.0 format and follow a standard organization regiment. The Download Center acts as more of an index with the entire Web site’s information downloadable in PDFs.
Sail Labs is world-leading developer in speech technology and multimedia analysis.
“We address the markets of rich media indexing and communication mining, offering cutting-edge technologies in areas such as automatic speech recognition, speaker identification, entity-and topic detection across multiple languages, geographies, and sources. Visualization components (clustering, relationships, trends, GIS) and ontologies complete our product portfolio.”
The company is based in Vienna, Austria. Sail Labs has grown from a small company and continues to garner potential investors and create high-quality software. Sail Labs still remains loyal to its roots by being 100% Austrian owned. Its headlining products are the Media Mining Indexer that allows users to process speech from multiple sources and make real-time annotated text output and the OSINIT line creates actionable intelligence based on multiple sources.
Sail Labs may not have all of the glamour and glitz of Nuance, but they do have a compelling resume based on all of the information in the Download Center.
Whitney Grace, January 20, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Enterprise Content Management Tips
January 20, 2014
The release of SharePoint 2013 was the top headline in enterprise content management in 2013. But the release of a new product often creates more questions than it answers. For this reason, Search Content Management wrote the article, “The Top Enterprise Content Management System Tips of 2013.”
The article begins:
“It’s no surprise that some of the top ECM tips this year concern how to script in SharePoint 2013, new features in SharePoint 2013 and whether to migrate to on-premises SharePoint or whether to consider SharePoint Online. Check out SearchContentManagement’s top learning content on enterprise content management for 2013 below.”
Stephen E. Arnold, a longtime leader in enterprise search, is also the mastermind behind ArnoldIT.com. Topics like the new features of SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint on-premise versus SharePoint Online are issues he has also addressed this year. The verdict seems to be that while SharePoint is certainly the most dominant ECM system, it is also in need of the most customization to produce a product that aids productivity and increase efficiency.
Emily Rae Aldridge, January 20, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Praise and Funding for Talend
January 19, 2014
Talend is a favored maker for XML data processing software and recently we read about “XML Data Processing Using Talent Open Studio” on Rohit Menon’s blog. Manon was working on a Netflix search engine project called Flicksery. He pulls his data from the Netflix catalog XML file and Talend Open Studio helps him analyze the data embedded in the file. In his post he explains how he used the software to pull the data and what neat features it has.
Talend also rounded up $40 million in funding from Bpifrance and Iris Capital. The news comes from IT Business Edge in the article, “Talend Lands $40 Million In Funding.” Bpifrance is the French government’s investment branch and they are the main initiator for the funding. A large portion of the funding is supposed to push Talend further into big data market.
Mike Tuchen, Talend CEO, said about the funding efforts:
“ ‘They [French government] look for innovative high growth companies with a strong presence in France, especially ones in targeted areas were they see huge opportunity like Big Data,” Tuchen said. “With this in mind Talend was a perfect fit, so it’s not surprising that they found us.’ ”
We have known that Talend was trying to promote its name in big data for a while. Projects like Flicksery demonstrates its software’s capabilities and we think it is just the beginning of something bigger.
Whitney Grace, January 19, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Yale on Free Expression: A Quote to Note
January 18, 2014
Years ago I gave a lecture at Yale. My subject was Google. I ran through the basic points in The Google Legacy and Google Version 2.0. The audience reacted as if I had dissected a dead frog. I received a smattering of polite applause and headed out for a talk in New York City. So much for Yale and the idea that Google was more than a Web search company.
I just read “Yale Students Made a Better Version of Their Course Catalogue. Then Yale Shut It Down.” A couple of students put up a Web page that allowed students to pinpoint classes and compare student ratings of professors. Sounds like an app to me.
Information? Who said it was supposed to be free? Image source: http://1.usa.gov/1dFIhW9
But Yale perceived the Web page differently. Here’s the quote:
‘Yale’s policy on free expression and free speech entitles no one to appropriate a Yale resource and use it as their [sic] own ,’ the statement read. It further stated its main priority at this time was supporting its own resources, ‘not others created independently and without the university’s cooperation or permission,’ and that ‘all the information on the website remains available to students on the Yale site.’
I assume the Washington Post is semi-accurate, just like an Amazon recommendation.
What did the future bonesmen learn? A nuance of academic freedom in Yale Land has been broadcast in an analogue transmission.
Will these two free thinkers demonstrate digital initiative in the future? Is Yale turning out well-trained online researchers for the next-generation information highway?
Stephen E Arnold, January 18, 2014
Visual Mining Redesign
January 18, 2014
We are familiar with Visual Mining and its range of dashboard and data visualization software. Currently, Visual Mining has been working on products that help users better understand and analyze actionable business data. Its enterprise software line NetCharts is compatible across all platforms, including mobile and tablets. The company recently released their Winter 2013 Chartline Newsletter.
Along with the usual end of the year greetings and gratitudes, the first note of business in the newsletter addresses is the Web site’s redesign.
Among the new features are:
- “Live Demo We would like to invite you to take a virtual test drive of our live NetCharts Performance Dashboards (NCPD) demo to see our newly restyled dashboard KPI’s.
- Blog Among the new items to explore on our site includes our new blog. This developer driven blog features new content with many different topics including tips and simple tricks to help you build and style your charts and dashboards. Keep coming back for lots more new content that will be added each month.
- Chart Gallery We also have a new chart gallery, which features all new examples with many different kinds of chart types to demonstrate some of the countless possibilities. We also added new chart type categories such as Alerting Charts and Showcase Charts. The Alerting Charts include different chart types that use alert zones while the Showcase category features chart examples with new and unusual styling approaches to demonstrate the flexibility of our charts.”
We have to wonder if the redesign came from the lack of Web traffic. Most Web sites are losing traffic, among them are content processing vendors. Does Visual Mining hope to generate sales more traffic based on their new look? We hope so.
Whitney Grace, January 18, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Google and Nanotechnology: Smart Lens the Start
January 17, 2014
Short honk. TechCrunch is on the beam. In “Google’s New Smart Contact lens Is Old News for Microsoft,” the author points out that Microsoft was in the smart wearable game before Google. More interesting is the fact that Google’s go-to wizard (Babak Parviz, Amir Parviz, or Amirparviz) used to be an advisor to Microsoft. What’s not in the news is that this smart lens is only a start. What’s next? Well, quite a bit. Think in terms of self-assembling nanodevices that allow a computing device to reside within a person. Nifty, eh. We have a report on this initiative.
If you think self-assembly is silly and that Dr. Whiteside’s students are chasing fairy dust, have at it. Alternatively you could read the contributions of Dr. Parviz (Amir Parviz and Amirparviz) to a text book on the subject. Those different versions of the name are interesting to me.
If you want to discuss getting a copy or having a Skype briefing, write seaky2000@yahoo.com.
Stephen E Arnold, January 17, 2014
Guide to Sentiment Analysis Application
January 17, 2014
The article on Lexalytics Blog titled Tagging, Taxonomies, Categorization with Salience provides a guide to using salience to get the most out of data. The first step, Discovery, involves features like Themes which extracts proper noun phrases to give a summary of what the content contains. Step 2 uses Concept Topics which uses ontology built from Wikipedia’s semantic knowledge to relate one word to another.
The article explains how this works:
“Salience will use the relationship between the category samples to tag your data. So every time the word “lion” pops up in your data, that entry will be categorized as “cats”. Every time the word “cheetah” appears, salience will know that this animal belongs to the cat family, and will tag the document as “cats”. This method of categorization is awesome because you do not need to list every single member of the cat family to create this category.”
Step 3 is another way of classifying data; it is creating a query topic. You input all words associated with your topic after consulting Wikipedia and a thesaurus, then limit the search with more information, and you also include how closely one word must be to another for it to be relevant.
Chelsea Kerwin, January 17, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
LinguistNow a Viable Alternative to Google Translate for Oracle Applications
January 17, 2014
The article promoting LinguistNow on Language I/O website is titled Fast, Human Translation of CRM Content. If you are in need of an alternative to Google Translate for Oracle Applications this is the article for you. LinguistNow is offered as a product suite by Language I/O that is capable of plugging directly into Oracle-RightNow and Salesforce CRM platforms.
The article explains:
“Our CRM-agnostic GoLinguist server can integrate with any CRM that exposes the right set of APIs. We also provide ready-to-deploy LinguistNow add-ins specifically for RightNow CX/CRM. Within Oracle RightNow and Salesforce, LinguistNow allows you to request translations of answer and incident content with the click of a mouse.”
LinguistNow also automates machine and human translation processes for Help Desk and FAQ email content. This method of quickly and automatically exporting and importing translatable content will not only reduce response times for clients but also the risk of human error that increases with every step that a user must perform manually. The article also includes a user testimonial from the VP of SurveyMonkey who claims that the aid of LinguistNow is responsible for saving the company tens of thousands and made the company more efficient. Demos and pricing are available through the contact page.
Chelsea Kerwin, January 17, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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