Search Expert Weighs In on Future of the Industry

Aarhus, Denmark (PRWEB) November 15, 2008

Stephen E. Arnold, an expert in search, content processing, and text analytics, recently delivered a lecture to a standing-room only crowd in Aarhus, Denmark, at the JBoye 08 (http://www.jboye08.dk/) conference Nov. 4 to 6.

Arnold’s analysis of enterprise search in 2009 identified major trends in the enterprise search and context processing industry; reviewed companies that will drive search success going forward; selected hot market sectors; and explained the rising challenges vendors and licensees will face.

Determining deals for bundled or “just there” search will put sales pressure on many small and specialty vendors, and competition from Google will increase that pressure as smaller companies try to avoid being swallowed by the search giant. Ballooning expenses will cause the purchasing companies to squeeze all they can out of budgets, which means fiercer competition amongst the vendors. Understanding and handling that may be beyond many small company salesmen. And SharePoint will continue to grow in scope and usage, a challenge to all search system developers.

“I fear that we will lose some number of search and content processing firms in the next six to 12 months. Innovation will continue to replenish the pool but some relatively well known firms will run aground,” Arnold said.

Arnold invites usage of his information and documents with proper attribution. The full text of the lecture and a pdf are available on the ArnoldIT.com Web site at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/11/11/search-2009-the-arnold-boye08-lecture/. The speech has been crafted into a more definitive statement of Arnold’s views and will be published.

As the managing partner of Arnold Information Technology (http://www.arnoldit.com), Arnold has more than two decades of experience in computer-based information retrieval, practical work gained through client assignments around the world and a deep understanding of the technology and business of enterprise search.

“Successful Enterprise Search Management” will be available as a download in late November and in hard copy mid-December through Galatea at http://www.galatea.co.uk/.

About Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go “beyond search”. Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. For more information about Arnold IT, contact Stuart Schram, chief technology officer, at (502) 228-1966. The company’s Web site is http://arnoldit.com, and the Beyond Search blog is at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/.

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