Enterprises Want Search

Cathleen Moore’s article in InfoWorld this week regarding the necessity of a Enterprise Search strategy should be considered “stating the obvious”.

Some excellent quotes from the article:

“The explosion of corporate content “both in the physical form of documents, records, and data, and in the human form of personal knowledge” has pressed companies into a crisis: Find a way to tap into and effectively leverage that knowledge, or watch your company’s most vital assets wither on the vine.”

“If you look inside a large corporation, anywhere you swing a stick you can find something that can be made better by search,” says Matthew Berk, research director at Jupiter Research.”

“Taking search to the next level is “when you don’t know the exact terms to query on, or you don’t know exactly what is on the network. We want to expose that information,” says Andy Feit, Verity’s senior vice president of marketing. “Taxonomies can uncover content you may not have known about before looking at it. It lets you expose content to more people.”

“Looking toward the future, enterprise search technology will continue to expand beyond its seek-and-find roots, blurring the lines between efforts such as business intelligence and knowledge management in an effort to present a full view of information assets within a company.”

Essentially an enterprise search tool is simply a facet of business intelligence reporting.