Transcript Is enterprise search dead? No! – And why open source

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Open source enterprise
search
Why it should be the first choice for
your intranet or website
Mike Davis
Principal Analyst
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November 2012
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Running order
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Why enterprise search is not a ‘dead’ issue
How the enterprise search market has changed in the last
year
Why open source should be the first choice for enterprise
search tools
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Your intranet or website is there
– to help users make a decision
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Decision making requires effective
information
That’s delivered:
 At the right place
– and in context
 At the right time
– and complete / credible / trusted
 To the right person(s)
– who have authority to make decisions
 And it could be anywhere across the
organisation's systems, or
out in the cloud
 Hence you have your
intranet or website
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That information is embedded in a lot
of other ‘stuff’
• Transactional systems
• Content Management systems
• Email
• Instant messaging
• Images and video
• The organisation’s and
external websites
• Social media
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Finding the right/effective information
requires enterprise search
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Key enterprise search vendors late 2011
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Key enterprise search vendors late 2011 – incl. OSS
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There is also something telling in this chart
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Why open source should be the first
choice
Open source software is by design of a higher quality than
propriety:
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It is tighter
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It is transparent
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It gets fixed faster
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Why open source search should be the
first choice
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OSS market is already stable, and maturing fast:
 Lucid Imagination, FLAX, Sirius, and even IBM offer support
Wider OS support from HP, Oracle and even Microsoft
Not out of largesse, but for commercial motives
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Summary
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With the requirement to make faster and better
decisions on increasingly large and disparate
information sources, the need for enterprise search tools
that will need to 'outlive' the repositories and systems they
crawl has never been higher
Some propriety products 'may' be marginally technically
better than OSS, but they come with a risk of support being
lost through the continued consolidation of the vendor base
Enterprise search is one of the most mature pieces of OSS,
in particular Lucene and its enterprise cousin Solr are now
proven in the largest of deployments, and OSS has an
experienced and growing support infrastructure
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Thank you
[email protected]
www.msmd-advisors.com
@mikemasseydavis
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