IHS Mines Gartner for Goldfire
September 10, 2015
If you want to read a “pat Goldfire on the back” statement, navigate to “IHS is Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search.”
I assume you, gentle reader, are up to speed on Invention Machine. No, strike that. You are up to speed on Goldfire, the IHS (Information Handling Service) enterprise search system.
If not, you can dig into the news release for details about how Goldfire can, and I quote:
- Decrease product development cycle time
- Increase the innovation pipeline
- Accelerate market share and competitive position
- Drives top-line margin expansion, and
- Increase productivity gains
There’s not much about search and retrieval, but that’s a minor detail.
What’s important in the news release is this statement which appears in the IHS Magic Quadrant write up about Goldfire:
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
There it is. The “research” is opinion based.” I think I understand that a Gartner report is not to “be construed as statements of fact.” Okay. I did not know that because I understood (obviously incorrectly) that a rigorous analytic process formed the foundation of the vendor selection and categorization.
Guess not. Wow. Who knew? Oh, I know. The PR firms issuing news releases from enterprise search vendors who are leaders, visionaries, etc.
Stephen E Arnold, September 10, 2015
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