Whitepapers
Hungry for more information regarding enterprise search? In this section you’ll find summaries of white papers available for download from Vivisimo.com on a variety of enterprise search related issues.
Jump-Starting Collaboration with Social Search
Over the past several years, enterprise search has opened the doors to all content stored throughout the enterprise. The next step is to provide end users with tools to make sense of this overwhelming amount of information and to easily share knowledge with colleagues and business partners. These collaboration tools, which will turn the quest for collaboration into a reality, are now available through new enterprise search capabilities—social search.
Type: Business whitepaper
Length: 5 pages
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Restricted Access: Entering the World of Secure Search
Before introducing an enterprise search solution, learn why search engine security is so critical and the pros and cons of different approaches. Includes a checklist of what to do before implementing a solution.
Type: Technical whitepaper
Length: 17 pages
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Scaling Strategies for Mission-Critical Search Applications
There are many challenges in designing for maximum scalability in mission critical search applications. This whitepaper discusses how the use of distributed indexes can address each of these challenges by improving performance, satisfying availability requirements, and providing administrative flexibility as the amount of data increases throughout the organization and new resources are deployed within your infrastructure.
Type: Technical whitepaper
Length: 13 pages
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How To Be A Hero: Develop An Enterprise Search Strategy
With the volume of digital content growing at unprecedented rates across all industries, the need for enterprise search has never been more clear. But how do you get started, and how can you avoid potential pitfalls? Learn some practical steps to take before implementing a success search strategy in this independent report by Forrester Research from September 2007.
Type: Business whitepaper
Length: 16 pages
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Using Social Search to Drive Innovation through Collaboration
Harness the power of Web 2.0 an unprecedented level of collaboration within your organization. This white paper demonstrates how social search is driving new approaches to problem-solving, setting business strategies and exposing content for innovative use.
Type: Business whitepaper
Length: 13 pages
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Enterprise Navigation, Search, and Retrieval:
A Vendor Landscape
The once-stale enterprise search market is transforming as companies put the technology behind search to far broader use. Thus, search is reemerging as navigation, search, and retrieval (NSR). The world’s largest, most powerful software providers are now encroaching on the NSR market—a market occupied by various business-focused providers and established enterprise platforms.
Type: Analyst’s report
Length: 30 pages
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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Search Q2 2008
Talk about a coming out party… Vivisimo recently debuted in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Search Q2 2008 and landed a spot in the Leaders wave. Forrester evaluated global enterprise search companies and complemented Vivisimo for “highly-developed, forward thinking solutions and high marks from customers for service.” The report also discusses the state of the enterprise search market and gives organizations practical advice for choosing a search solution.
Type: Analyst’s report
Length: 20 pages
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Enterprise Search Markets and Applications:
Capitalizing on Emerging Demand
One goal of this report is to provide a summary of the marketplace that will help buyers map their needs to search products that will deliver the most value in the shortest amount of time, and at a reasonable cost. Additionally, buyers will find practical guidance about product evaluation, selection, implementation, deployment and maintenance.
Type: Analyst’s report
Length: 75 pages
