Archive for the ‘Search/BI convergence’ Category
Unclassified + Unclassified = Classified
by Pete Bell
Hollywood has taught us that intelligence is secret: signal intelligence, like communications intercepts; imagery intelligence, like spy satellites; and human intelligence, like Mata Hari. But intelligence analysts say that many of their best sources aren’t secret, they’re open source (that’s “open source” as in publicly available, not as in free source code.) But feed it [...]
In: HCIR, Search/BI convergence
Visualizing Facets
by Mark Burrell
Every UX designer working on faceted search and discovery applications faces a key challenge. How to present facets that instantly tell users:
What’s available within the collection or information space?
Which actions will help users meet their goals?
To meet this challenge, faceted user interfaces need to summarize the information space in a readily comprehensible way and [...]
In: IA, Search/BI convergence, UX, miscellaneous :)
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 [...]
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 [...]
In: Search/BI convergence, miscellaneous :)
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 [...]
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 [...]
Faceted Trust: From Fandango to Data Governance
by Pete Bell
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Craig “Craig’s List” Newmark recently gave an interview to Mathew Ingram at Gigaom in which he called “some form of distributed trust system ‘the killingest of killer apps’ for the web over the next decade.” That’s because trust and identity are at the heart of the user experience on social sites, yet we have [...]
FT’s understatement on Newssift.com
by Pete Bell
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Yesterday, the FT gave a statement to paidContent UK about shutting down Newssift.com:
“It’s the nature of digital media start-ups that not all work out, but we still firmly believe in the need to experiment and innovate. Newssift was a good idea, but the timing was unfortunate in that its launch coincided with the advertising [...]
In: Search/BI convergence, semantic web
