Search
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Our Legacy Big Data Problem
A few days ago, I discussed how Big Data, as a technology, has relevance as a means to gain Insight. This is all fine and good, but is it a technology that we need in the Content Management space? Moore’s law seems to be keeping our data in good shape. Except… …inside every piece of… Continue reading
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Folders, A Nutritious Part of Your Content Management Diet
Sean Hederman of Signate Document Management wrote a rebuttal of my AIIM article defending folders. He admits a bias as he works for a Document Management vendor built around search. I thought of writing a short response saying that he missed the point of my article and that he had nothing to rebut, but where… Continue reading
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Documentum xPlore, The New “FAST” Search
Taking a break from talking about the economics and future of Content Management to look back at the reality we are facing today. For all of the need to start moving to the future, we all still have problems that have to be solved today. One of my most challenging problems in Documentum is full-text… Continue reading
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EMC Search Potpourri
Sometimes I miss the 90s. Search was so easy in ECM environments. Everyone used a bundled Verity and was happy. Then things changed. People started to notice that if you actually used the system on an large scale, search performance degraded. There were many reasons for this. One was that vendors weren’t upgrading their bundled… Continue reading
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Control Those Search Results
I read a post about searching from Bex Huff last week and I immediately felt that his post was worth sharing. If you haven’t read it yet, take a moment to do so now. I think he makes some good points and I want to build and not just repeat. Continue reading
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Taxonomies, Good, Bad, or Ugly?
Sumanth Molakala posted a great look at determining the amount of effort that should go into creating a taxonomy for a new Enterprise Content Management solution. This brings up a debate that I have had/observed among ECM professionals for years. Do we make Search the primary access method, or the second? I find that every… Continue reading