Vincent Thomas

Vincent Thomas

Vincent Thomas has over 20 years experience working with high tech companies around the globe and he is currently responsible for international business at Vivisimo. Previously, Thomas held the position of Vice President of International Business Development at US based TimeSys Corp., a leading provider of embedded linux where he was responsible for strategic deals with leading global companies such as Sony, Hitachi, Philips, and Siemens. As Director of International Operations for XML web-services pioneer Bowstreet.com, he was based in London where he built a successful European team. Fluent in Japanese, Thomas began his career in Tokyo, ultimately serving as Managing Director of Tivoli Systems Asia Pacific, where he was responsible for successfully launching the regional business. Thomas holds a B.Sc (Eng.) from Trinity College, Dublin.

Going Dutch With Search

Friday, May 29th, 2009

I’m in Amsterdam this week for the Global Benchmarking Group’s Intranets and Portals Forum. Although it’s not a search-specific show, it’s a good event for organizations across Europe to discuss the challenges they’re facing from intranets, websites and Web 2.0 technologies.

There were presentations from some top-tier multinational corporations – and each told a remarkably similar story. These companies were faced with no single corporate intranet, but rather hundreds of disparate (and some even rogue) sites run by individual departments or product lines. There was, of course, no consistency in the look and feel of all these sites.