Attivio Scientist on the Changes in Enterprise Search

November 3, 2008, ArnoldIT.com

If you are looking for a summary of some of the changes forced upon vendors of enterprise search systems, you will enjoy “Beyond Findability: The Search for Active Intelligence.” The article is the work of Attivio’s Jonathan Young, an engineer and inventor who works at Attivio. I interviewed Attivio’s founder Ali Riaz here in May 2008. I have noticed that the word “beyond” is becoming shorthand for explaining that there is more needed than key word retrieval, Google, or business intelligence that requires a PhD in statistics to figure out.

“Beyond” also signals dissatisfaction with most search, content processing, and text analysis systems. The point, according to Mr. Young is that some innovations like semantic search impose significant burdens on an organization in machine resources and time.  Read full article