2012 – Norconex Inc

Norconex will be back at this years CIBC Run for the Cure event, on September 30, in Ottawa. The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure is Canada’s largest single day, volunteer-led fundraising event dedicated to raising funds for breast cancer research, education and awareness programs. It was founded by a small group of volunteers who wanted to raise awareness and funds for the breast cancer cause. Last year, Canadians united to raise over $30 million in the 2011 Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure. Please help make this year another success and come run with us or make a donation here.

No drastic changes to the industry were observed at this year’s Enterprise Search Summit (#ESS12) in New York. Despite the fact that there wasn’t anything ground breaking there are still some industry trends that continue to prevail.

Open Source Search

Open source search technology continues to evolve and must be considered as a legitimate option for many organizations. The open source search community is now standardizing and continuing to develop more sound solutions. In addition, there are more third party open source experts that can assist with ongoing support and maintenance of your open source search applications (Norconex, being one of them). The open source search player’s presence was felt this year. (more…)

Over the past few years we’ve seen a drastic improvement in search interfaces. The development of ugly search boxes and incomprehensible search result screens should now (hopefully) be a thing of the past. New search UI’s are designed and developed daily, that are crisp, clean, well thought out, and really help guide users to the information they’re looking for. Search based concepts and technologies are finally starting to be properly recognized as being as important as the content they’re put in place to help discover. A clean, well thought out search user interface not only makes a large difference in helping users navigate site information, but also goes a long ways towards bringing users back for more. (more…)

Norconex is celebrating its fifth anniversary. We are taking this opportunity to thank you for your contribution in making us a successful company. Many thanks go to Norconex customers, partners and other enterprise search enthusiasts. Your continuing support keep us going strong. (more…)

Enterprise Search Costs Can Quickly Grow I’ll say it: enterprise search is expensive and takes time to do properly. The bigger the number of different repository types, the more complex your architecture is, the more you have in-house solutions or archaic systems in place, the more it will cost you time and money. Seems obvious doesn’t it? Then why do so many enterprise search projects go over budget? Possibly due to the fact that enterprise search is often treated as an “add-on” to an existing infrastructure, or even as a necessary evil in some cases. Many will treat search implementations like any other “simple” project. To them the requirements gathering, vendor evaluation, and procurement process are the most daunting tasks. Actual implementation and ongoing maintenance is too often neglected. (more…)