Enterprise Search Vendors: Avoid the Silliness of “All”
December 15, 2014
When enterprise search vendors say their systems index “all” of the information an organization has, the statement is silly, if not downright crazy. A good example of why one does not index “all” information on an organization’s computers appears in “13 Revelations from the Sony Hack.” The next time a search vendor runs the “all” spiel, point them to this write up. In addition to salary information that alleges my former neightbor Jennifer Lawrence gets less dough than some others in her recent film, do I need to know a Sony employee has a drinking problem and nuked his liver? Search works if the content is vetted. That means someone has to do an information inventory and make some decisions about what gets indexed and who may view what. “All”—one more reason why enterprise search has found that open source solutions are “good enough” for many prospects.
Stephen E Arnold, December 15, 2014
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