Summary:
Search has been around for a long time (particularly text-based
search, which is NOT the only search game in town folks!), and while
much of the buzz these days is about tags, folksonomies, and Invisible
Crowds (see prior podcast with Jack Jia), search technology in and of
itself is experiencing a revolution! The revolution brings usability
across the board, to users, to administrators, and to content managers
looking to get the most bang out of the content as they can.
In this interview with Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO and Co-founder
(http://searchdoneright.com/author/valdes) of Vivisimo
(http://www.vivisimo.com/), we discuss what Vivisimo has been
targeting to push Enterprise Search through it's next growth spurt. We
hit a number of topics that are my hot button topics - as a former
hands-on IT guy, while I was happy to have usability figure heavily
for end-users, inevitably any user interface for the administrators
and implementors were the worst interfaces you've ever laid eyes on.
Just because someone in IT is comfortable typing commands into a
terminal, that doesn't mean that's their PREFERRED way of working.
Anything that software companies can do to speed up time to deploy,
time to maintain, and time to extend integration (think federated
search - which we discuss here), and FINALLY Enterprise Search Grows
Up!
I would love to hear your feedback on using Enterprise Search tools,
from either the user or administrator point of view, and whether you
are getting the flexibility you would like out of your search
solution. Comment on the blog (www.BizTechTalk.com), or call in to my
caller hotline at 781-268-0716 and leave a message for me!
