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For CIO Professionals

Report:Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity

Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In

Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Enterprise Search

Google, Microsoft, And Autonomy Face Credible Competitors

Forrester evaluated 12 enterprise search vendors that vary widely in their brand awareness, cost, and ease of use. Google, Autonomy, and Microsoft are the most well-known names; they own a large...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:How To Measure Search Success: Goals First, Then Metrics

Content and collaboration professionals struggle to measure the success of search functionality on publicly facing websites and intranets. They mine through diverse data to answer questions like:...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Site Search Evolves From Technical Feature To Customer Touchpoint

Results From Forrester's Q1 2011 Site Search Online Survey

Search on many corporate websites is an understaffed, IT-funded afterthought. But watch for the status quo to change. Two-thirds of the decision-makers Forrester surveyed will expand website search...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Enterprise Search: Six Key Trends To Watch

First-generation enterprise search was not easy to use and produced unsatisfactory results from a usability and relevance standpoint. Today's knowledge workers demand role-specific, contextual search...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Coming Soon: The Need To Search Video In The Enterprise

Video is not a fringe format anymore. Increasingly, information workers consume video in the workplace for training purposes, technical help, and real-time communication with colleagues and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Tapping The Power Of Search-Based Applications

To give your search program momentum, you must show how an investment in search technology helps the organization's bottom line. One-size-fits-all enterprise search deployments are often too diffuse...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Take Control Of Your Content

How To Identify Nonessential Clutter To Safeguard And Make The Most Of The Content That Matters

There's probably a lot of junk digital content in your enterprise that no one feels ready or authorized to delete. Redundant and unnecessary information sloshes around in content management systems...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Got Content? You Need Information Architects

The inability to find content, a lack of compliance, and poor customer experiences all add up to real costs. If you care about getting the right information to the right people at the right time and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Q&A: Search Fundamentals For Information & Knowledge Management Pros

Search administrators shouldn't expect business and technology leaders to grasp the ins and outs of information retrieval. Even people who work on intranet and Web 2.0 projects don't always...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:SharePoint 2010: Search Improved, But Think Twice About FAST Search Upgrade

Microsoft recently unveiled the public beta of SharePoint Server 2010 and the public beta of FAST Search for SharePoint. Information professionals will welcome the new ability to centrally manage...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Best And Worst Of Site Search 2010

Forrester reviewed the search functionality on the corporate Web sites of the top 50 US companies according to revenue. Almost all of the search engines executed queries very quickly, but the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Enlist iWorkers In The Fight To Improve Information Access

Information workers (iWorkers) trust the information and data they find inside their companies almost twice as much as the information and data they find on the Internet, according to Forrester's...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Searching For eDiscovery Cost Control

Search Products Play A Small But Important Role

Search is a critical component of the eDiscovery process, but search in the context of litigation differs from other enterprise search initiatives. As escalating volumes and types of information...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Autonomy Swallows Interwoven: What It Means To I&KM Pros

In an unexpected move, Autonomy announced in January 2009 that it will acquire Interwoven for $775 million. Interwoven's document management and Web content management (WCM) products align with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Top Five Information Access Predictions For 2009

Forrester's clients are frustrated by their inability to get enterprise search to work as advertised. Facing tough economic times in 2009, information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:How To Build A High-Octane Taxonomy For ECM And Enterprise Search Systems

Enterprises invest in big-ticket information management software such as search, portal, and enterprise content management (ECM) systems, in an effort to eliminate information silos and increase...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Cisco Improves Site Search With New Technology And Customer-Centric Approach

Cisco Systems' public Web presence is mission-critical. Cisco.com comprises 75 country-specific sites with millions of technical and marketing pages published in 37 languages. The site processes...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Why You Need Enterprise Strategy For Desktop Search

Information workers waste a lot of time searching for information that they already have. The daily torrent of email, calendar entries, tasks, notifications, and documents means that even the most...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Search, Q2 2008

Autonomy, Endeca, FAST, And Vivisimo Lead A Competitive Market

Forrester evaluated enterprise search vendors against 147 criteria and found that Autonomy, Endeca, FAST (a Microsoft subsidiary), and Vivisimo lead the market with impressive technical capabilities...

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