Enterprise Search blog posts. Federated Search. Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog. Last week was the 2009 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. The sold-out attendance of 7400 doubled the number from the previous SharePoint conference 1 ½ years ago. This is not too surprising given the incredible momentum of SharePoint and the fact that much of the event was dedicated to disclosure of the highly anticipated SharePoint 2010 release. Surprising or not, it was gratifying for us search guys to see the level of interest in the new search capabilities being disclosed for 2010. Several of the search-specific break-out sessions had as many people in the audience (>1000) as the entire attendance of our FASTforward’09 search conference in February earlier this year.
SharePoint as a whole has evolved from the original content management and portal platform of earlier releases into a complete “business collaboration platform”, and there are *a lot* of enhancements and new capabilities in SharePoint 2010. I won’t even attempt to summarize them all here. 2) Meta-data Extraction Nate. Enterprise Search. Enterprise Search Blog. There is no question that language influences marketing success; positioning software products has been a game of out-shining competitors with clever slogans and crafty coined terminology.
Having been engaged with search technologies since 1974, and as the architect of a software application for enterprise content indexing and retrieval, I’ve observed how product positioning has played out in the enterprise search market over the years. When there is a new call for re-labeling “search,” the noun defining software designed for retrieving electronic content, I reflect on why and whether a different term would suffice. Here is why a new term is not needed and the reasons why. For the definition of software algorithms that are the underpinning of finding and retrieving electronic content, regardless of native format, the noun search is efficient, to-the-point, unambiguous and direct. Categorizing what is being offered has to speak to the buyer and potential user. Official Google Enterprise Blog.