Archive for April, 2010
Backstage tech
by Pete Bell
Following rumors of Google’s potential acquisition of ITA software for $1 billion, the Boston Globe ran a story this past Sunday, “Backstage, they’re stars,” about other area companies that are successful but that aren’t household names, like Gillette or Fidelity. Endeca was on the list, along with PTC and Pegasystems.
What’s most interesting to me is [...]
How Big Is The BI Backlog?
by Paul Sonderegger
The unending requests for custom reports and new data is a problem. But how big? In a new survey of 226 BI decision-makers, Forrester Consulting takes its measure.
The trigger for this work was the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas earlier this year where the BI backlog was a big topic on one of the [...]
Intel Xeon 7500 video interview: Scale up, scale out
by Adam Ferrari
Following up on my post Test driving a pre-release of the first supercomputer in a box, here are more of my reactions to the new Intel Xeon 7500. It comes from the Intel launch event, and I cover additional test results and use cases.
Adam Ferrari
BI Needs A Revolution. But What Kind Will It Get?
by Paul Sonderegger
In his recent post, Revolutionary BI: When Agile is Not Fast Enough, Wayne Eckerson, Director Of Education And Research at The Data Warehousing Institute, called for a BI revolution. “Too many BI teams are shackled by outdated modes of industrial organization,” he says. Instead, BI teams need new tools and new approaches to be more [...]
Federation or Integration?
by Pete Bell
Pete Bell
Federated search is one of our most frequently requested features, and also one of the most misunderstood. Until recently, we’ve almost always advised against federation in favor of data integration — more on the exceptions below. But the lines between federation and integration have started to blur. Now that we’ve announced our eCommerce suite [...]
Test driving a pre-release of the first supercomputer in a box
by Adam Ferrari
Adam Ferrari
I’ve spent the last week testing pre-release hardware for Intel’s Xeon 7500 series of processors, and yesterday evening at their New York City launch event. (Full disclosure – Intel is an investor in Endeca, but they have not had any input into this post.) In many ways the 7500, better known by its code [...]
Faceted trust at Yelp, sorta
by Pete Bell
Pete Bell
Yelp, the local reviews crowd-sourcing site, is solving their woes with trust facets, sorta. (Note that Yelp is not an Endeca customer.)
Yelp has been in the news recently as the subject of class action lawsuits by businesses alleging that Yelp’s ad sales practices amount to extortion because the Yelp reps allegedly hint that they [...]
How do you build faceted search for a Presidential archive?
by Pete Bell
Pete Bell
Who’s the most popular modern President? JFK, by a factor of four, if you pick the traffic to presidential libraries as your metric. It’s for this reason that the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has been the model of innovation for all the presidential libraries. And with the 50th anniversary of his [...]
