There have been a number of reports and papers issued recently on Big Data including: Forrester reviewing the Big Data solutions of 2013 The Economist talks about what is Big Data and how can it be used Wall Street Journal talk about what is next for Big Data The Sunday Times reviewing how Big Data [...]
A little after 8:30 this morning, Jared Spataro, Senior Director of SharePoint, opened this year’s SharePoint Conference (SPC) to the sound of 10,000 SharePoint geeks simultaneously tapping away on their devices, furiously making #SPC12 the trending topic on Twitter. The release of SharePoint 2013 is touted by Microsoft as a bridge from the past to [...]
I found this interview (article from Nov. 2011) with the Director of Microsoft’s Enterprise Search Group, Bjørn Olstad on http://www.tu.no. Below is an English summary of the main points, along with some elbaorations. Dr. Olstad speaks on how Norway is a hotbed for search technology development and this search ecosystem has it’s source at NTNU in [...]
Let’s face it. Every developer has at some point produced something that was just right. Something we really put our heart and soul into. An extremely useful tool, a beautiful and useful web site, the most awesome piece of documentation ever written. But after delivery, it turned out that no one used it. We’ve all [...]
In a world of ever increasing digital content production I guess we all are feeling the “tsunami” of information swelling into our lives both at home and at work. And the flow never seems to slow down as the amount of information doubles every 18 months. It really is not surprising that a lot of [...]
When we started Comperio 6 years ago, many of the search projects were limited to one or two objectives. The goal was often just to “fix” search on the web site and/or the intranet. With the tools and solution concepts we had available at the time that was demanding enough. Today, however, the success of [...]
One of the pleasures of leading Comperio is that I get a chance to meet a lot of interesting people with exciting ideas. Their undertakings span from how to improve productivity through better information access in an intranet, how to boost revenues and profits in an eCommerce solution through supportive shopping guides and a customer-centric [...]
