Enterprise Search Merged with Business Intelligence

Enterprise search and business intelligence are two enterprise concepts that people still do not quite fully understand. I came across this podcast on eWeek in which Mike Vizard talks to Sid Probstein, the CTO of Attivio, about the importance of harnessing search technology within the context of a business intelligence application. Take about 15 minutes to listen to this informative podcast.

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Spaceo.us: A Social Enterprise

Enterprise architects are developing a social collaboration platform called Spaceo.us, where Web 2.0 tools like wikis, tagging, blogging, and enterprise search will be available within organizations in a corporate setting. Users have long been using web 2.0 in personal perspectives, but Spaceo.us aims to help mesh this collaborative software in the enterprise. Here’s a clip of what Spaceo.us has to offer. What collaborative feature do you feel will best improve organizational agility?

Attivio: The Latest in Enterprise Search

ZDNet does a good job on their review of Attivio’s latest enterprise search application Active Intelligence Engine, or AIE. AIE is able to effectively find specific information through structured and unstructured content through precision SQL querying.

So what’s so special about this feat since the enterprise already offers many search applications? Dennis Howlett brings up the notion that Google itself can not perform such complex and calculated queries based on commonalities. Even though Google is a popular enterprise search favorite, it is not able to effectively sort between enterprise applications, databases, email, documents, and other content management systems.

Hands up, even in it’s beginning stages, it looks like Attivio already has an advantage in enterprise search. With pricing ranging from $2,000 to $50,000 a month depending on system configurations, it looks as if it might give Google a run for its money.