One of the best supplier talks ever! Short, snappy & full of content. Just heard Lee Phillips, Fast Search Technology, give a 10 minute presentation, Search in the FAST Lane, at Information Today’s Enterprise Search Summit in NYC. He talked about their platform oriented program for enterprise search and the fact that enterprise search platform architectures need to have
* openness
* a pipeline for modularity (to allow mix & match for processing content)
* radical scalability
* feature extensibility (so future ideas can be incorporated)
* transparent administration (for IT, libraries, analysts, decision-makers)
I liked his comments about technology and market innovation as well as how intranet clients’ core application is workflow and there are so many hidden areas on the desktop. He reminded the audience that “all the technology in the world wouldn’t mean anything if you can’t walk in your customer’s shoes.”
He also challenged the audience to describe their organization in 10 words or less.
Can you?