On Friday, April 4, New Idea Engineering will host its first webinar: Microsoft and FAST after the merger. The 30 minute webinar will be presented live at 1:30PM Eastern time, 10:30AM Pacific time, and we expect to have the entire webinar available for viewing on-line after that time.
Register for the event at http://www.ideaeng.com/webinar.
The Washington Post reports that Google is quite unhappy about a recent Autonomy white paper. The paper reports two articles on the Google enterprise Blog objecting to Autonomy's representations of the Google Search Applicancr capabiities. In late January, Nitin Mangtani posted A brave new world (or, our answer to FUD) which detailes what Google believes to be inaccuracies in a recent Autonomy white paper. This is actually trhe second time Google has taken issue with Autonomy: in July of 2007, Google's Matt Glotzbach posted Don't believe everything you read, a reply to efforts on Autonomy's part to summarize Google's capabilities, presumably for its (Autonomy's) customers.
We had no luck finding the Autonomy white paper on the Autonomy web site, and we'd love to see what they had to say. Anyone have it?
Enterprise Search Summit - East: Information Today has announced the 2008 Enterprise Search Summit - East in New York May 20 and May 21. Long a leading conference in the enterprise search space, the conference will feature speakers like Steve Arnold of ArnoldIT and Sue Feldman of IDC. ESS-East will offer a Pre-conference on Monday, May 19. Mark Bennett and Miles Kehoe will both be speaking at the conference.
Enterprise 2.0 will hold its 2008 conference June 9 - 12 in Boston. Featured speakers include Ned Levine of Sony Entertainment, Simon Revell of Pfizer, and Mark Woollen of Oracle. Mark Bennett will be speaking at the event on the role of enterprise security in Enterprise Search 2.0 web design.
Gilbane holds its 4th annual conference June 18 - 19 in San Francisco. At this conference, as at the one in Boston last Fall, Gilbane is running an 'enterprise search' track which should be of interest to anyone who needs to index data in a content management system like SharePoint or Documentum. Mark Bennett will be speaking at the Gilbane show as well.