Archive for July, 2010
TEDxBoston: The Future Of Search vs. Seeing The Future With Search
by Pete Bell
TEDx conferences, the local offshoots of TED, are more experimental in format than the classic TED talk. An innovation of TEDxBoston is the “Adventure” — an immersive trip that puts the big ideas of TED into the context of a physical location. This year, there were nearly two dozen, including a tour of Dean Kamen’s [...]
Introducing the Endeca User Interface Design Pattern Library
by Mark Burrell
Our UX team at Endeca gets a steady stream of questions about how to design effective search and discovery experiences. Just some of our FAQs:
“What’s the best way to handle faceted bread crumbs?”
“How should we present faceted navigation?”
“How should we present results [...]
QlikTech’s IPO & Vigilante BI
by Pete Bell
We’re often asked about how Endeca’s BI offering compares to QlikView — more than usual with their “heavily oversubscribed” IPO this morning of their parent company QlikTech (QLIK).
The comparisons aren’t surprising. If you read their S-1 IPO filing, you’ll find spots where you could cut-and-paste “Endeca” for “QlikView.” For example,
“We have pioneered a powerful, easy-to-use [...]
Listening to the Customers’ Story
by Pete Bell
My favorite part of the Endeca year just started with our sixth annual call for Navigator Award nominations, recognizing the most visionary Endeca deployments. What’s most fascinating to me about the awards is hearing our customers tell their stories in their own words.
We have our own narratives about each facet of the Endeca story. For [...]
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