Ramping up our Endeca partnership & capabilities
Architech has been an Endeca partner for the last several years now. So what are we working on? Well, our most recent projects have involved Endeca deployments at Toronto Public Library and Rogers, leveraging the technology to power improved user experiences on their public facing sites.
Endeca recently launched their new partner program, and Architech has [...]
Micheal Porter Video: Driving Competitive Advantage with Information Visibility
In today’s challenging economy there is increasing need for not just access to information, but also the ability to answer challenging questions about businesses’ performance, assets and resources.
Evaluating Meta Data for Search
When you deploy a search engine and index content that needs to be searched, there’s often a lot of information that could be pulled in as meta data – how do you evaluate it and decide what to keep? This post might help.
8 Benefits of having a Meta Data Dictionary for your Search Engine
When you’re deploying a search engine – big or small, for intranets or web sites, creating a meta data dictionary (or meta data registry) and making sure you stick to it. This is important for many reasons, and is most important when content is being indexed into the search engine from more than one source [...]
TwitterSheep
Another great Twitter meta data visualization tool. This one creates a word cloud out of all of the profiles of the people who follow you – well, anyone you enter, in fact.
TweetStats – Fantastic Visualizations
I just fell in love with this website, and it was love at first click (well, second or third). It's an interesting a service and a great idea, but the fact that it shows the frequency of tweets from any twitter account is not what's so great about it. It's the way it presents those stats that makes it so great. The graphs and visualizations of the data (which is really just a frequency chart) are just beautiful. It's amazingly well done – and I recommend you try it. If you don't have a Twitter account, try mine: johntobin.
Top 5 Mistakes in Search Tool Design
Lots of organizations deploy search to help their clients or staff members discover and navigate their content. By understanding the common mistakes outlined here, and follow these suggestions to fix them, hopefully you will be able to make improvements to the search tools your company deploys.
Enterprise search companies distracted by content management?
Is the enterprise search industry distracted by their moves to integrate content management platforms into their product offerings? This post discusses some perspectives.