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Listen to the recordings:
Call 1: Making the business case
Call 2: Search nuts & bolts
Call 3: Intermediate topics
Call 4: Advanced search strategies
This jumpstart series will tackle some of the issues and challenges surrounding enterprise search. During these calls, you will hear from search experts at leading Fortune 500 companies and be exposed to tools from select vendors.
Learn about:
- Making the business case for search
- Evaluating search tools
- Implementing enterprise search
- Integrating with taxonomies, tagging systems, etc.
There will be short vendor presentations, but these are educational and not product pitches.
Presenters include:
Lou Rosenfeld & Richard Wiggins, Rosenfeld Media
Helen Mitchell, FDA
Steve Randle
Andrew Gent, Hewlett Packard
Ted Sullivan, Raritan Technologies
Richard Beatch, Dell
Brian Alpert, Texas Instruments
Oz Benamram, Morrison & Forrester, LLP
Seth Earley, Earley & Associates
| Speakers | Session |
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Oz Benamram Seth Earley |
Session 1: Making the Business Case for Search We will talk about how context is key and why “just getting a good search engine” is an oversimplification of the problem. We will discuss how to make the business case, demonstrating the value of effective search. We will also present common challenges in search deployment projects. |
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Steve Randle Ted Sullivan |
Session 2: Search Nuts & Bolts We will cover various classes of technology and review the differences between metadata based search, full text search, rules based approaches, various statistical approaches, Bayesian analysis and linguistic and semantic analysis. |
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Andrew Gent Richard Beatch Brian Alpert |
Session 3: Intermediate Topics in Search Search deployment and tuning requires a great deal of time and attention. Best bets, rules based approaches, training sets, taxonomy integration and content system integration are not necessarily “out of the box” or plug and play. Learn about search engine optimization and customization. |
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Lou Rosenfeld & Richard Wiggins Helen Mitchell Ted Sullivan |
Session 4: Advanced Search Strategies This final session will cover issues of integration and globalization, as well as search analytics for diagnosing problems with search. We will also discuss topic maps and other future developments. What is the effect of the semantic web and ontology management? How can advanced tools improve search recall and precision? |
"A tremendous amount of practical insight. Attending the series gave a broad understanding of the search market and how to implement it in my environment."
-- Ann Adams, Kyocera
"This is worth your time attending because you don't have to travel and yet can get expert opinions on the latest developments in search technology."
-- Bestsy Chan, Electronic Arts
"Love these sessions. Participants may initially expect a conversation, but the lecture format provides good insight into who's done what where and when..."
-- Barbara Stuckey, TheExactWord