Story Telling and Search: Smartlogic Fiction
June 25, 2015
One of my two or three readers sent me a link to an article appearing in the Smartlogic Web log. I found the write up unusual. You may want to check it out: Surviving without Content Intelligence? There’s an Elephant in the Room. The first chapter is here.
The approach is to tell a story which explains the value of Smartlogic’s content intelligence approach. I circled this passage in pale blue:
The OLAP cube and MDM solution he’s spent the first half of the year implementing [you can read about it here] is not going to help him with the emails, call records and file system data that he is being asked to include. He’d always known that 80% of an organization’s data was unstructured – he had hoped that they could get away with the 20% that was structured and easily managed. Now he’s got four times more data to work with, and he can’t just shovel it into the CRM system and hope they can deal with it.
The “read about it here” does not link to anything.
If the story resonates with you, Smartlogic may be exactly what you require.
The subhead “Next Week” includes this passage:
The Smartlogic Semaphore Search Application Framework is a tool for rapidly developing search applications that uniquely combine a Semantic Model with commodity tools such as SOLR and the Google Search Appliance, so users are not restricted to keywords, but can search by meaning as well which dramatically improves the user experience. Last, but not least, the Semaphore Classification Server would have allowed Archie to reliably link structured data and unstructured content without being dependent on existing structures and metadata; but that’s a story for next week.
I found one word fascinating, “commodity.” I think of the Google Search Appliance as an expensive way to process large volumes of content. The GSA no longer takes a one size fits all approach, but it is expensive to set up with fail over and customized functions. Solr is an open source solution perched on top of Lucene. A number of companies offer implementations of these open source products. The current stallion winning races is Elastic, but that is not a commodity like diapers.
The “story” is not complete. Part three will become available soon. Stay tuned.
Stephen E Arnold, June 25, 2015
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