Changing Search to Found

Content without access is relatively worthless. Enterprise search is how an organization helps people seek the information they need, in any format, from anywhere inside their company. Automated content tagging is one approach to solving the challenge of finding the right content. Tech Target brought this information to our attention in their article, “How automated…

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Business Intelligence & Digital Transformation

Business intelligence (BI) combines business analytics, data mining, data visualization, data tools and infrastructure, as well as best practices to help organizations to make more data-driven decisions. A recent survey shows more organizations are using more BI platforms. This interesting news came to us from all places – Texas News Today – in their article, “BI…

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Data, Data-Driven

Real world big data are largely dynamic, interconnected and unstructured text. To transform such massive unstructured data into structured knowledge is a common goal. Penn State News brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Talk to explore power of taxonomy and embedding in text mining.” Equipped with domain-independent and domain-dependent knowledge-bases, it…

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Managing Data Security in the Clouds

The importance of managing personal data is important to many nonprofits because of their funding approach. So what are their options? This information came to us from Illinois News Today in their article, “What nonprofits can get from a multi-cloud environment.” Multi-cloud environments place data in different locations in multiple cloud environments. These environments are…

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Digital Video Game Reality

I am going to reveal both my age and my geekdom in this post. Ready Player One was one of my favorite books and the movie wasn’t half bad either. It tickled all the right keys of growing up in the 80’s – both the pop culture references and the early days of video games.…

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Home with AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the home is not new. With an increasing amount of useful data, predictive algorithms, inference engines and deep learning networks will help smart home technology to contextualize its surroundings. Facial and voice recognition could immediately recognize various members of the household and provide informed responses to open-ended questions, as well as…

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Essence of Search

Search is changing. It is now more personal, more engaging, more interactive and more predictive. Search results no longer display just 10 blue links — they have become more useful and more visually appealing across all device types.  Semantic search is at the forefront of these changes. The word “semantic” refers to the meaning or…

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The Power of Findability

Search and findability focus on making enterprise information and expertise easier to locate and access. High findability and discoverability are the results of a well-defined information architecture and well-designed navigation system. This interesting topic came to us from CMS Wire in their article, “Can Enterprise Search Be Reduced to Two Dimensions?“ Findability can be a science. Much…

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Knowledge Graphs in Digital Transformation

Knowledge graphs represent a collection of interlinked descriptions of entities – objects, events or concepts. Knowledge graphs put data in context via linking and semantic metadata and this way provide a framework for data integration, unification, analytics and sharing. This interesting topic came to us from Business 2 Community in their article, “How Knowledge Graphs…

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Digital Comfort Zones

Diversity and digital are not two words you generally see in the same sentence. Tech Crunch brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Digital transformation depends on diversity.” Many companies are struggling to make meaningful progress to grow its diversity and digital footprints. An organization that truly reflects the population it serves…

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