Monday, June 09, 2008
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For those of you attending TechEd this week, please stop the the BA-Insight booth (#1151).
Our team will be presenting several new features that provide SharePoint Search and Search Server with powerful capabilities. One of these features is called Parametric Search which offers significant improvements on your standard Advanced Search page. I'll leave the team the rest, so as not to steal their thunder.
Hope to see you there!
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
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Today at the SharePoint Conference, the BA-Insight team will be announcing a new product line - Longitude for Microsoft Search Server. This is very exciting for us, because it opens up a huge market. Companies and organizations that don't intend on deploying SharePoint can deploy Search Server and extend the search capabilities with all that Longitude provides. The full press release can be found here.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Please join BA-Insight at the SharePoint 2008 Conference (http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx) taking place March 3rd thru March 6th. Search is going to be a focal point of this conference.
BA-Insight will be exhibiting in the partner pavilion at booth 100.
Friday, February 22, 2008
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I'm pleased to announce I'll be presenting a Live Webcast on behalf of BA-Insight hosted by KMWorld on March 25th. The title of the webcast is - Microsoft Enterprise Search: Extending SharePoint for Advanced Search Solutions The webcast will focus on how the SharePoint Search Platform can be extended to address sophisticated Information Access Requirements.
Chris Bochenski, Director of Enterprise Search at Microsoft will be joining me for this one hour event.
Please register with KMWorld by clicking this LINK
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
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Microsoft is announcing the release of two new search products slated to be released in the first half of next year. Both products are designed to address the needs of companies that require a search solution, but aren't willing to commit to the purchase of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS as it's often called). The MOSS offering contains a number of modules such as Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Records Management, in addition to Enterprise Search. Many smaller organizations where unwilling to pay a higher price just to obtain the search piece. This enabled Microsoft's competitors to successfully attack the low end market. Companies like Google, with Google Mini, and IBM with the IBM-Yahoo! OmniFind edition has done very well in this market according to the analysts.
One of the products is called Microsoft SharePoint Search Server Express and will be available as a free download. This is clearly a reaction to the low priced Google Mini which starts at $2,500 and IBM's offering which is available for free. The Express Edition is currently available in the Release Candidate Version at the following location:
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/...
.....searchserverexpress/download.aspx
Pricing for the more robust SharePoint Server for Search has yet to be released, but Microsoft has announced it will have serveral new features such as a Federation framework that will enable partners to develop connectors enabling Federated Search. BA-Insight is currently leveraging this framework developing a number of connectors to different data repositories. The current list of partner connectors can be found here:
Friday, November 02, 2007
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Just a quick note of congratulations to the team at Stratify who were just acquired by Iron Mountain for $158M. http://www.stratify.com/news_events/press_releases/press_release74.html
Anyone familiar with the Stratify story knows that the company almost went of business when the Internet bubble burst. The companies management took bold steps to refocused the company on Legal e-Discovery where it has since prospered.
Congratulations to the Stratify team!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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A company called Surfray (http://www.surfray.com/en/index.php/about) based in Copenhagen just purchased Mondosoft for an undisclosed sum.
Mondosoft is best known for their Behavior Tracking software which is an ecommerce tool they developed enabling adminstrators to optimize the user experience of shoppers as they move through an ecommerice site site.
The Danish division of Computer World just published an article on the acquistion. You can read the translated version by clicking on the link and clicking the TRANSLATE button:
http://gramtrans.com/gt/url/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworld.dk%2Fart%2F42264%3Fa%3Drss%26i%3D0&pair=dan2eng
More to follow......
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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Congratulations to the BA-Insight Product Development team for winning KMWorld's Trend Setting Product of 2007.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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Microsoft and Open Text fired a shot across Interwoven's bow yesterday when they announced a partnership that has Open Text offering a SharePoint based Matter Life Cycle Management solution. Open Text's Enterprise Search expertise, clearly brings a lot to the table here.
Interwoven countered with an announcement they had partnered with Vivisimo, OEMing their clustering technology to deliver a product called Universal Search to professional services firms.
Enterprise Search is core business for Legal Firms. I suspect we'll be seeing many more announcements of this sort in the coming months.
Friday, August 17, 2007
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I was in the process of putting a TCO analysis together comparing SharePoint Search + our product Longitude versus the Google Search Appliance when I noticed that Google has just removed pricing of the GSA from their website. I think this is the first of several moves we'll being seeing from Google's Enterprise division. I applaud Google for trying to be as transparent as possible, but publishing your prices does have a downside in that competitors can use this information in any number of ways including the way I mention above. My guess is that Google's next move will be to offer a software only version of the GSA. Time will tell.