1 august 2008Vivisimo Chief Scientist Says Developing Enterprise Search Strategy is Key to Showing Search ROI
Vivisimo Strategist Addresses IT Experts
Pittsburgh, PA — Knowledge is power, and information is the path to knowledge. Smart organizations get it. Others fall behind, slowed by their inability to readily access and profit by the huge amounts of data generated and stored every day. The secret for progressive companies is the effective use of enterprise search.
Jerome Pesenti, chief scientist for Vivisimo (vivisimo.com) a Pittsburgh-based global leader in enterprise search, covers this topic in a talk Monday, “Thinking Outside the (Search) Box,” about how to develop a winning strategy for enterprise search. Pesenti will address the Western Pennsylvania Enterprise Architecture Forum’s August meeting. See http://www.wpeaf.org/ for more information.
Pesenti’s presentation is available, following free registration, at http://vivisimo.com/landing/download-wpeaf.
The key to converting hidden or siloed data into valuable corporate assets, says Pesenti, is to make sure users’ needs are carefully considered when integrating enterprise search into an organization’s strategic goals. By combining what users need and want with organizational goals—increasing collaboration and accelerating innovation, for example—business leaders can implement an enterprise search strategy that produces measurable results. For instance, Vivisimo customer Modine Manufacturing Co. estimates saving about $3.6 million with an intranet powered by the Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform™. A case study on Modine’s enterprise search strategy is available at http://vivisimo.com/docs/casemodine.
IT managers know they have to improve their organization’s enterprise search, but too many fail to act. A recent survey by AIIM (www.aiim.org), “Findability: The Art and Science of Making Content Easy to Find,” found that nearly half of those surveyed believe better access to information is critical yet had no formal strategy to improve retrieval. The same study also found that about half of all respondents said their jobs suffer as a result of poor findability.
“Getting enterprise search right takes skill and commitment, but the payoff is an organization whose people are more productive, quicker to collaborate and innovate, and more satisfied,” says Pesenti. “Deploying enterprise search properly also gives business leaders the tools they need for measuring results and for showing a positive return on their IT investment.”
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About the Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform
The Vivisimo Velocity platform provides enterprises with innovative search solutions that allow users to access, extract and manipulate all available content, regardless of location. The latest version of Velocity is the first major enterprise search platform to bring business-ready Web 2.0 functionalities, such as social tagging, social bookmarking, social networking and mash-ups to the market. By combining the simplicity of consumer search with the flexibility and control of enterprise software, organizations can reap the benefits of increased user adoption and satisfaction without compromising on performance, scalability, security or the ability to configure a solution specific to its business environment. Based on a service-oriented architecture that enables rapid deployment, Vivisimo Velocity can be up and running in just weeks.
About Vivisimo, Inc.
Vivisimo does search right by combining the simplicity and innovation of consumer search with the flexibility and control of enterprise software. The company works with customers to understand their goals and quickly deploy solutions that maximize the business value of information—with an interface users love. Vivisimo serves its global client base through headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, and Paris, France, and partners throughout the world. Please visit Vivisimo.com to learn more and visit our Search Done Right Blog to learn more about enterprise search. ###
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