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Maximizing Relevancy of Search and Product Listing Pages for Your Website Customers. The live event’s recording is now available for replay. What’s discussed? Optimize your connection with your...
View ArticleWhy is OmniFind a Python Application?
by David Wilkerson, CTO This month I am writing as Peter Wilkerson’s amanuensis. I have, however, taken great poetic license and won’t presume to put words into Peter’s mouth. Instead, I am taking a...
View ArticleTop 10 Mistakes to Avoid While Implementing Site Search for Internet Retail...
by Peter Wilkerson, OmniFind Practice Area Manager Site Search is a black box mystery for many people and that makes it very difficult to know if you are falling into a huge pit or missing a golden...
View ArticleSearch: Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later
by Peter Wilkerson, OmniFind Practice Area Manager It’s a simple, straight-forward question. Ignore it during the design phase and your costs will be greater, much greater. Ignore it until after you...
View ArticleEnterprise Search: Making the Case
by Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager If you are looking for some ideas on making a case for Enterprise Search, below are some points that can help you get started. The...
View ArticleSearch and WorkForce Integration Initiatives: Two Paths
by Peter Wilkerson, Practice Area Manager, Search & Discovery Increasingly I see more projects focusing on “Search and WorkForce Integration”. Search plays a key part in WorkForce Integration....
View ArticleManaging Search Complexity through Simplicity
by Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Manager At the heart of any search solution is a good understanding of the business problem to be solved as well as knowledge of the available...
View ArticleCurrent Project: OmniFind as Preferred Choice
From Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager The Search & Discovery practice is working with clients on several different kinds of search-driven projects. Currently, the most...
View ArticlePragmatic First Steps for Implementing Search
From Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager Starting a new search project can by a trying experience. There are many pieces to consider, see my blog for an in-depth analysis on...
View ArticleComing Next Month – Facets and Navigation
From Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager You know what it’s like to be frustrated by search and navigation. You go to your intranet site and know what you want to find but...
View ArticleThinking About Search: Using Custom Facets to Improve the Intranet Search...
From Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager In May, IBM announced the next version of OmniFind Enterprise Edition. When you read through the announcement you will see a number of...
View ArticleDigital Disaster Zone: Are Your Employees Working in the Digital Equivalent...
by Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager A number of years ago a tornado struck near a university library. The storm came close enough to break windows and as the wind began to...
View ArticlePain Point: Lack of Timely Information
by Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager. Davalen has helped many clients reduce the cost of doing business by creating software solutions that automate workflow. Now these...
View ArticleIs Your Dashboard Retrieving the Right Information?
Peter Wilkerson by Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager Dashboards can display data fed through direct database queries or from the results of advanced search. Since decisions...
View ArticleConsuming RESTful Web Services…Why Worry?
by Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager The recent release of OmniFind Enterprise Edition (OEE v9.1) makes it clear that if you want to create your own user interface for the...
View ArticleMaking a Business Case for Effective Search
by Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager In any information-sharing system, one of the hardest pieces to effectively complete is the way users navigate and discover the...
View ArticleCreating an Exceptional Web Experience: Designing for Findability
Peter Wilkerson by Peter Wilkerson , Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager If a user can’t locate what they need on a website, then the site is not providing an Exceptional Web Experience....
View ArticleMobile Devices and Site Design
by Peter Wilkerson , Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager Companies are capitalizing on the dramatic upswing of the use of iPhones(r), iPads(r), Andriod(r) phones, smart phones and other mobile...
View ArticleA Series on Building a Successful Mobile Search Interface
by Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice Area Manager Part 1. Understanding the Coming Problem The primary goal of a mobile site or app is to deliver the right content in bite-sized chunks...
View ArticleBuilding a Successful Mobile Search Interface: Part II
The New Mobile Search Metaphor: Simpler Interfaces/Smarter Apps by Peter Wilkerson, Search and Discovery Practice Area Manager The direction I was heading towards in the earlier article in the series,...
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