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Visual Searching: The Next Opportunity For DAM Systems?

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:49:37 +0000

Johannes Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB has written an article entitled: “Visual Information Retrieval: the Next challenge in Information Management“. Johannes discusses the reasons why non-text based search strategies are now more important than ever with the exponential rise in image or video digital content. He outlines 4 challenges for information management Electronic files [...]

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Concept Searching: An Alternative To Manual Metadata Classification?

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:01:02 +0000

Writing on the ECM Stuff blog, Jed Cawthorne discusses the role of Conceptual Search and how soon it may be possible to utilise Content Intelligence to automatically identify conceptual metadata to avoid the need for manual classification of assets: “Now I used to be one of the cynics who thought that just slapping (a good) [...]

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Search Usability: Ask Why Users Search To Enhance ROI From Enterprise Search Technology

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:07:09 +0000

John Brunswick writing on the Enterprise 2.0 blog encourages implementers of enterprise search to consider what problems users are trying to solve when they carry out searches using Enterprise Search technology. Using the analogy: “Why Lance Armstrong doesn’t ride a mountain bike”, John makes the point that too much emphasis added to technical considerations such [...]

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The Keys To Findability

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:22:59 +0000

“Findability” - how easily relevant content can be located by employees has become a hot topic across a whole spectrum of Content Management technologies (including DAM). This Digital Landfill blog article by Dan Gilroy of RDA Corporation discusses 8 of the key issues associated with optimising findability: Multi-format capability: the ability to locate content across [...]

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Dialog Launch New Search Service

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:00:18 +0000

Online information services provider, Dialog, have recently announced the launch of their new search service, ProQuest Dialog, a service intended for pharmaceutical and biomedical researchers in corporate and government organisations. “The first release of ProQuest Dialog offers subscription-based access to databases from some of the world’s most trusted publishers , such as Embase, BIOSIS Previews, [...]

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Keywords To Avoid In Emails – Results Of Lehmans Brothers Investigations

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:50:09 +0000

Johannes Scholtes writing on the Zylab blog presents some interesting discussions about e-discovery technology and how it has been employed by investigators to search through over 4 million emails authored by failed investment bank, Lehman Brothers. In particular, he describes how specific keywords were used to isolate potentially incriminating evidence: “While I did some additional [...]

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Embracing Enterprise Search: Best Practices For Better Solutions

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:17:14 +0000

Bert Sandie Director of Technical Excellence at Electronic Arts, writing on the AIIM community Enterprise 2.0 blog discusses options for enterprises that wish to invest in an Enterprise Search facility for locating critical information stored anywhere in the business: “Companies from small start-ups to the mega corporations all encounter the day when they need to [...]

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The Pros And Cons Of Traditional Web Search Engines

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:30:48 +0000

Johannes C. Scholtes examines the benefits and limitations of traditional web search engines, such as Google, for use within in-house mission-critical applications. “It is easy to use, fast and the results are often accurate and precise. Google does a phenomenal job keeping up with new information and it is often located quickly on popular sites. The [...]

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Risks of Managing Licensed Content For Enterprises

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:49:57 +0000

On the Digital Landfill blog, David Seuss of Northern Light discusses 8 risks of managing licensed content across an larger enterprise organisation. The risks are: Cumbersome and complex research environment Employees miss relevant content when performing research Unauthorised employees gain access to the content Financial exposure related to unauthorised access Lack of advanced search tools [...]

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What Is Federated Search?

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:00:16 +0000

EI Watch’s Theresa Regli sheds light on how federated search works and how this search technology differs from enterprise search models. “A question often asked by people learning about search technology is, “what’s the difference between enterprise and federated search?” It is not the simplest question to answer, and in my travels I have found that [...]

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Content Analytics Engines To Replace Simple Search

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:00:12 +0000

A recent survey conducted by the leading information management research organisation AIIM has revealed that businesses could derive far greater returns from content analysis tools than basic search tools. “Over 70% of respondents in AIIM’s survey would find advanced content analysis functions “Extremely useful” or “Very useful.” They rate their current ability to “research” content for business [...]

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Tips On Enterprise Search With SharePoint

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:55 +0000

In this article, Jed Cawthorne, senior knowledge management specialist, looks at how SharePoint can be used as an effective enterprise search solution for organisations, yet warns that simply installing a search engine will not bring about information management nirvana. “SharePoint 2007 Search is not often talked about in the realms of “enterprise search”. But used appropriately, it [...]

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Open Text Drop Support for Discovery Server

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:34:50 +0000

As reported on CMSWatch, Open Text have dropped support for their Discovery Server standalone search app: A spokesperson for the Waterloo, Ontario-based company explained: “We have altered our strategy away from dividing our development efforts between the standalone offering (Discovery Server) and the search of our ECM Suite, to focusing solely on the search capabilities [...]

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Searching Metaphors For DAM Systems

Nick Brookes — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:48:59 +0000

Modern DAM systems can provide several search mechanism to enable their users to locate assets. In this article, Nick Brookes, system applications developer and information architect, describes three main user interface search metaphors used and some of their advantages and disadvantages. Keyword Search Provides users with a textfield into which a keywords are entered and [...]

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Forward receives capital for further growth

Sarah Thompson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:37:22 +0000

Danish company Forward has entered into cooperation with two Danish technology venture companies to hasten development of their Enterprise Search product platform Forward Search Forward Search is an internet, intranet and ecommerce search tool that is making waves in its local territories. The company was founded in 2004 and has made steady progress with its [...]

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