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Open source enterprise search Why it should be the first choice for your intranet or website
Mike Davis Principal Analyst#jboye12 November 2012
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Running order
Why enterprise search is not a ‘dead’ issue
How the enterprise search market has changed in the last year
Why open source should be the first choice for enterprise search tools
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Your intranet or website is there – to help users make a decision
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Decision making requires effective information
That’s delivered:At the right place
– and in contextAt the right time
– and complete / credible / trustedTo the right person(s)
– who have authority to make decisionsAnd it could be anywhere across the
organisation's systems, orout in the cloud
Hence you have your intranet or website
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That information is embedded in a lotof other ‘stuff’
• Transactional systems• Content Management systems• Email• Instant messaging• Images and video• The organisation’s and
external websites• Social media
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Finding the right/effective information requires enterprise search
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Key enterprise search vendors late 2011
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Key enterprise search vendors late 2011 – incl. OSS
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There is also something telling in this chart
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Why open source should be the first choice Open source software is by design of a higher quality than
propriety:
It is tighter
It is transparent
It gets fixed faster
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Why open source search should be the first choice OSS market is already stable, and maturing fast:
Lucid Imagination, FLAX, Sirius, and even IBM offer support
Wider OS support from HP, Oracle and even Microsoft
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Summary
With the requirement to make faster and betterdecisions on increasingly large and disparate information sources, the need for enterprise search tools that will need to 'outlive' the repositories and systems they crawl has never been higher
Some propriety products 'may' be marginally technically better than OSS, but they come with a risk of support being lost through the continued consolidation of the vendor base
Enterprise search is one of the most mature pieces of OSS, in particular Lucene and its enterprise cousin Solr are now proven in the largest of deployments, and OSS has an experienced and growing support infrastructure
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