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Blog:Semantic Technology In The Enterprise

Remember The Jetsons? The flying cars and the automated kitchen and the food pills? Sometimes modern life can feel like that futuristic utopia. We've got robots in the...

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Client Inquiry:Choosing An Enterprise Search Engine

When selecting an enterprise search engine, what criteria should be used?

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Client Inquiry:What Service Offerings And Synergies Exist Between Enterprise Search And BI Tools?Tools

How do enterprise search and business intelligence (BI) tools complement each other, and what are the use cases for these? What products cover the areas of enterprise search, semantic tools,...

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Report:Forrester's Data Management Reference Architecture

Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value

The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...

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Blog:What Is Autonomy, Without Its Marketing?

Yesterday, HP agreed to buy UK software firm Autonomy Corp. for $10 billion to move into the enterprise information management (EIM) software business. HP wants to add IP to its portfolio, build...

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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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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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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...

• Downloads: 606

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Report:Trends In Mobility, Cloud Computing, And Analytics Shake Up ECM

Vision: The Content Management Playbook

Successful management of content throughout its life cycle has never been more challenging. Customers and employees, operating in a social, mobile world, expect easy mechanisms to create and consume...

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Client Inquiry:SharePoint Search In The Internet Space

What are the pitfalls surrounding SharePoint Search in the Internet space, especially in regard to Office 365?

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Tool:Improved Customer Self-Service Is The Primary Business Objective For Site Search

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Report:Job Description For The Content-Oriented Information Architect

As organizations formalize their information architecture (IA) practices, Forrester expects the mission of IA to crystallize. Put simply, the value of IA is that it enables the delivery of the right...

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Tool:Details On Select Microsoft Partner ISVs

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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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Report:SharePoint Partners Can Plug Taxonomy Gaps

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) has lousy metadata capabilities. If tagging content and managing taxonomies in MOSS 2007 are important to you— and they should be —...

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Report:A Snapshot Of Today's Content And Collaboration Professional

Putting senior managers in place to lead content and collaboration initiatives for their organizations is a growing imperative. Our ongoing work with Forrester clients indicates that the skills mix...

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Client Inquiry:What Trends Should I Consider When Building My Site Search Road Map?

I am developing my on-site search road map. What trends are on the horizon?

For CIO Professionals

Report:Disciplined Social Innovation

Three Firms Achieve Tangible Results

Companies depend on innovation to sprint out of the current economic doldrums and to return to profitability and growth. Innovation is a discipline with established best practices, needed skill sets,...

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Blog:Text Analytics: A Key Trend To Watch Over The Next Three Years

My colleague Gene Leganza, who serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals, compiled the top 15 technology trends EA should watch over the next three years. He highlights technologies that are...

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Tool:C&C Professionals Have High Earning Potential

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Blog:With Endeca, In Effect Oracle Gets Two Technologies For The Price Of One

In 2007 Larry Elison said: "We think the paradigm for doing business, how people do their daily jobs is changing and is moving to a search paradigm.” For years Oracle has worked on weaving...

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Client Inquiry:The Relationship Between Text Analytics And CSR Data Entry

I'd like to know more about how text analytics works in the context of "reading" CSR rep typed-in comments when customers call in with issues. How does text analytics fit into a data strategy?

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Client Inquiry:Google Search And Data Privacy

Our scientists/researchers are putting sensitive searches in to Google's search engine. We are concerned that Google may be able to track search results and might sell the information. How does...

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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 Content & Collaboration Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Companies Are The Natural Language Processing Players?

What companies are the players in natural language processing (NLP) that enhance search on websites? How do they differ from open source equivalents? Do they have APIs that allow integration with...