Intranet Focus

A key element of my consulting practice is running workshops. They are a very good way of marketing my services and also enable me to gain first-hand experience of how intranets and search are being implemented and used in organisations. No matter how well a workshop is planned in advance it is very difficult to cover all the [...]

No sooner had Enterprise Search Europe finished than I was on a plane to New York for the Enterprise Search Summit, another Information Today production. With over 50 speakers and more than 20 exhibitors (including HP Autonomy) the event was on a much larger scale than the London version, even more so because there was [...]

We have not worked through all the delegate assessment forms but the general reaction was that Enterprise Search Europe 2013 was the best yet. Six months of planning paid off to the extent that we finished the two day conference one minute early after nearly 30 presentations. To me as Conference Chair the most rewarding [...]

I am indebted to Lin Grensing-Pohal, writing in the May/June 2013 issue of Intranets, for reminding me of a famous but perhaps now largely forgotten article in Business Week in 1996. Entitled “Here comes the Intranet” it was a paean of praise for the future of intranets. I have long since lost my paper version [...]

There has been a lot of comment recently about whether Autonomy really is powered by magic. HP may think so, but I could not possibly comment. Then this week the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search 2013 was released and companies rushed out press releases about their awards for leadership and vision. Up there in [...]

I’ve always been more interested in effective team working than I have ‘collaboration’. I know when I am a member of a team but less sure about when I’m “collaborating”.  May be I’m an exception but I think it is possible to be a member of a team and yet not be collaborating in the [...]

For reasons I have no need to disclose Vic Lyte, Head of Technology Services, Mimas, University of Manchester is not able to give his presentation at Enterprise Search Europe on 16 May.  At short notice finding a direct replacement has not been possible, so you will find that I am now a speaker at the [...]

Enterprise Search Europe 2013 starts on 14 May with four workshops that set out the themes of the conference. Matt Aslett (451 Group) will be exploring the opportunities and challenges of Big Data Charlie Hull (Flax) will be talking about building search applications in Lucene/Solr and ElasticSearch Christian Vogt and Dr. Christian Gross (Raytion) will be [...]

2013 marks the 50th Anniversary of real-time search. The story starts when Doug Engelbart began the Augmented Human Intellect Program at Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California. In June 1962 Charlie Bourne, who had been a student of Engelbart’s at the University of California Berkeley in 1957, joined the AHI team. In 1963 Bourne started work on [...]

Three recent reports highlight the growing awareness that information needs to be managed as a business-critical asset. Gartner recently published a report on the top technology trends that would have an impact on information infrastructure in 2013. One of the conclusions in the report was that enterprise information management requires dedicated roles and specific organizational [...]