Enterprise IT Perspectives
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Tutorial: Using Open Source for Enterprise Search
Shankar Krishnan
What are the technology options to develop enterprise search engines? Are open source technologies viable for use in enterprise search engines? The author postulates that enterprises need to leverage on intellectual property in enterprise search using open source technologies.
Practitioner’s Perspective: How to select a good enterprise search engine
Ashish Sureka, Chandra Kallur and Risi Thonangi
The authors examine evaluation parameters for selecting an enterprise search engine that satisfies enterprise requirements. Apart from pricing, some of the key parameters discussed are support for data sources and file formats and user interface and additional capabilities.
Double Take: Taxonomy – The case for inversion of control
Santhosh G Ramakrishna
The authors make a case for the concept of inversion of control in taxonomy. Here, the onus of classifying data lies with the users rather than the creator.
Operational Level Agreements and Cross Vendor Cooperation
Navoneil Bhattacharyya
The main challenge faced in implementing a multi-sourcing strategy is that of ensuring and promoting cooperation between multiple vendors. The author takes the view that operational level agreements can serve the cause of promoting cross-vendor cooperation.
Double Take: Collaborative Distributed Taxonomy Building
Vikrant S Kaulgud
Taxonomy is a critical imperative for effective search. The author makes a case for distributed and collaborative taxonomy definition exercise, and outlines ways to overcome limitations of this approach.
Idea: Management of Enterprise Multimedia Information
Balaji Raghunathan and Balaji Sankaran
The authors take a fresh look at the challenges of managing unstructured enterprise information, and highlights the potential of unstructured multimedia information needs.
Viewpoint: Semantic Integration in Enterprise Information Management
Muralidhar Prabhakaran & Carey Chou
Next generation Enterprise Information Management (EIM) systems have to cope with diverse formats and location sources of information. The authors argue that structural integration should be an area of focus for next generation EIM systems.
Framework - Efficient Consumer Electronics Supply Chains using Knowledge Applications
Santosh Iyer and Badri Devalla, PhD
The authors outline an approach to transform supply chain data to valuable information contextualized to business processes. They argue that information, thus contextualized can be used to gain greater visibility on process performance and decision making.
Experience Speak: Should performance be an integral part of the SDLC?
Vaidyanatha Siva and Sridhar Sharma
The authors draw on their experience and expand on critical issues of application performance.
Perspective: Enterprise Application Performance Management - An End-to-End Perspective
Vishy Narayan
There is a need to incorporate a performance management process that includes application development, production and maintenance lifecycle.
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