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Recommind's new software now available in Britain

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

US-based Recommind supplies software for law firms and legal departments. The latest release of its MindServer software allows the integration ('federation') of results from other search software. It is now available in the UK. [Read More...]

ISYS broadens the value of search

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

A more detailed look at Australian company, ISYS Search Software and its search and discover capabilities. [Read More...]

IBM enters free search tools market

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100

IBM has teamed up with Yahoo! to offer free search software. OmniFind Yahoo! Edition (OYE) can index and search up to half a million documents on an intranet as well the public Web. [Read More...]

It's SMEs for ISYS

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100

ISYS Search Software offers competitive, well-featured products for corporate desktop machines and for intranets and Web sites. [Read More...]

Buy Microsoft, it's your patriotic duty

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100

On Tuesday, Microsoft made the business launch of its Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 software. The event tried to show that using MS software is important for the British economy, but failed. [Read More...]

Delivering Enterprise Knowledge

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:00:00 +0100

Finding and retrieving information is vital to any organisation. This is difficult because of the gulf between the way organisations get at and deliver unstructured versus structured data. [Read More...]

KANA counts on versatility

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:00:00 +0100

KANA Software supplies systems to help organizations improve their electronic dealings with customers. The software is popular with its many blue-chip users but is popularity enough? [Read More...]

Factiva Search 2.0 - An Image's Mirror

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:00:00 +0100

A service that continuously analyses thousands of news feeds, web pages and blogs, giving companies a focused and up-to-date picture of relevant industries, companies and trends. [Read More...]

Standard terminology for open systems

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:00:00 +0100

What do people mean by the word, open, when talking about open systems or open source? Why do they so often treat it as the opposite of the word, proprietary? Are they right to do so? [Read More...]

WebEx - the Multimedia Dial Tone

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:00:00 +0100

Most people who have tuned into a Webcast or had a software demo over the Internet will have used a WebEx service without being aware of it - or realising that similar services are available to them. [Read More...]

IBM releases Lotus Notes/Domino 7

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Earlier this month IBM released the latest version of its Notes/Domino product after 16 months of public beta testing. So what can users expect between now and the future transition to 'Hannover'? [Read More...]

IBM posts UIMA as a standard

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:00:00 +0100

IBM recently announced version 8.2.2 of its OmniFind search software. This release externalizes the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) which helps compliant software components interwork on the task of extracting... [Read More...]

Verity repositions itself

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Verity has for years been one of the giants of the enterprise-wide search market — but now it has wider ambitions. [Read More...]

IBM buys e-forms partner

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:00:00 +0100

IBM recently announced that it had agreed to buy a small (70-employee) company that supplies business process management software and services based on electronic forms. [Read More...]

Yahoo! broadens its search

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Yahoo! recently released a second beta version of My Web, a personal portal for the public Web. What facilities can this new service offer to users? [Read More...]

Ultra Knowledge bridges a gap

Roger Whitehead, Bloor Research — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Exploiting the capacity of human beings to make intuitive leaps that can focus and shorten the search process. [Read More...]