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Volume 3 Number 2 - February - March 2006
In news that broke last week, BearingPoint ( http://www.bearingpoint.com) announced that they would be enhancing the Google Search Appliance (GSA) for use as an enterprise search solution. Apparently BearingPoint, formerly KMPG Consulting, will form a new Search Solutions group to market and integrate the GSA in Fortune 2000 and government accounts. They will also create extensions to the standard GSA, and gateways for additional datastores common in corporate environments - Documentum and Lotus Notes come to mind. Check the Information Week article from February 14.
While the relationship is not exclusive, this may be a sign that Google is having trouble competing in the enterprise space. Certainly the revenue from paid listings on Google.com dwarfs all other sources of income for Google; and some corporations are finding Google's GSA just doesn't have the customizations and relevancy expected in the enterprise (see this month's Ask Dr. Search).
Our take is that where your content is mostly web-based with extensive interlinking, GSA is a pretty good solution. If you have lots of Office and PDF documents, you may find you need to do more than the GSA supports. Let's hope that BearingPoint has some ideas on how to make the GSA a better solutions for corporations.
As if Autonomy and FAST having user group meetings this Winter doesn't give us enough opportunity to travel, Enterprise Search returns to New York May 23-24 with a great agenda of industry experts and sessions to help you understand the issues you will see when planning, implementing or operating enterprise search.
Learn about this year's Enterprise Search Summit today.
In October, Verity announced their second Verity Connections event user group meeting March 29-31 at the Disney Yacht and Beach Club in Orlando. Now that Verity was acquired, it is Autonomy that will use the Orlando meeting to address many of the questions that customers of K2, Ultraseek, TeleForm and Liquid Office may have after the acquisition. Check with your Verity sales team for up-to-the-minute details, or check the registration web site.
Mondosoft, a leader in Windows-based search solutions, has acquired Navigo Systems, makers of SharePoint plug-in Ontolica. The Navigo Systems product provide an easy-to-use way to extend SharePoint search, and will presumably integrate with Mondosoft's search technology.
Mondosoft has been actively marketing search and behavior tracking solutions to companies using Microsoft SharePoint and other products, so this acquisition will offer several enhancements. Read the official announcement here.