attivio – Flax http://www.flax.co.uk The Open Source Search Specialists Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:03:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Following the money….all the way to open source search. http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2012/11/09/following-the-money-all-the-way-to-open-source-search/ http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2012/11/09/following-the-money-all-the-way-to-open-source-search/#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:14:02 +0000 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=899 There’s an old saying that to find out what’s really going on, you have to “follow the money”. In the search industry two recent events have pointed the way: firstly, Attivio raised $34 million in new funding. Attivio produce a … More

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]]> There’s an old saying that to find out what’s really going on, you have to “follow the money”. In the search industry two recent events have pointed the way: firstly, Attivio raised $34 million in new funding. Attivio produce a solution based on their own Active Intelligence Engine (yes, it’s still just a search engine) which itself is based on open source projects such as Apache Lucene. Secondly, this week the new(ish) company formed to offer support for the ElasticSearch open source search engine also raised funding to the tune of $10m.

From these two events we can conclude that the smart money has realised that the enterprise search market is heading in only one direction – towards open source software or solutions mainly based on it (another good example being our partner LucidWorks). News from this week’s ApacheCon in Germany of incredibly busy sessions around Lucene, Solr and ElasticSearch (as well as related and complimentary projects such as Stanbol) shows that the technical community agrees. I don’t think this will be the last time we hear of a significant investment by both the financial and technical communities in open source search.

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]]> http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2012/11/09/following-the-money-all-the-way-to-open-source-search/feed/ 0 Is Enterprise Search dead? No, but it's changing… http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2011/09/15/is-enterprise-search-dead-no-but-its-changing/ http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2011/09/15/is-enterprise-search-dead-no-but-its-changing/#respond Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:05:48 +0000 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=630 I spent yesterday morning at Ovum’s briefing on Enterprise Search, and they kindly invited me to sit on a discussion panel. One of the more controversial topics raised by analyst Mike Davis was ‘Is Enterprise Search dead?’ which provoked some … More

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]]> I spent yesterday morning at Ovum’s briefing on Enterprise Search, and they kindly invited me to sit on a discussion panel. One of the more controversial topics raised by analyst Mike Davis was ‘Is Enterprise Search dead?’ which provoked some lively discussion. We also heard from Tyler Tate of Twigkit on Search UX, Exalead on Search Based Applications and Search Technologies on data conditioning and why metadata is so important.

One can’t deny that the search market is going through some huge changes at the moment. Larger vendors are being acquired which can lead to some major (and not always welcome) changes in the product, pricing and service. Smaller vendors are finding it increasingly hard to compete with the plethora of powerful open source solutions (we’ve heard rumours of prices of closed source solutions being dropped radically to attempt to secure new business). There are also some interesting moves towards more comprehensive Business Intelligence and Unified Access solutions, such as Attivio.

I don’t think enterprise search is dying as a market or an offering, simply changing – and hopefully for the better, into an era of more realistic pricing, solutions that actually work (rather than promising ‘magic’) and more openness in terms of the technology and capability.

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