Successful
First Year for Enterprise Search Summit
June
2, 2004, Medford, New
Jersey—On
May 11–12,
2004, IT professionals,
information managers,
and leaders of
the enterprise
search industry
met at Enterprise
Search Summit
2004 for an intense
two days of briefings
about how to
select and implement
site search solutions,
and to share
ideas with colleagues.
Organized by
Information Today,
Inc., Enterprise
Search Summit
saw a successful
first year with
more than 300
in attendance.
Over the course
of two days of
conference sessions,
industry experts
covered the building
blocks of “search," including
selection and
deployment strategies,
taxonomy, metadata,
and information
architecture.
The following
are just a few
of the instructors
at the show:
Joseph Busch
of Taxonomy Strategies,
Avi Rappoport
of Search Tools
Consulting, and
Martin White
of Intranet Focus,
Ltd. Industry
analysts Sue
Feldman from
IDC and Eric
Woods from Ovum
also shared their
perspectives
of the industry.
The Enterprise
Search Showcase
offered attendees
a unique chance
to check out
how enterprise
search solutions
work by showing
demos of leading
search solutions,
while the Enterprise
Search Clinics,
lead by technical
experts from
major search
software companies,
provided in-depth
tutorials and
product demos
for the conference
audience.
Enterprise Search
Summit had a
number of prestigious
sponsors that
helped to make
the conference
a success. Premium
sponsors were
Convera, Endeca,
Fast Search,
Google, Inxight,
Northern Light,
Open Text, and
Verity. Associate
sponsors were
Atomz, ClearForest,
ConceptSearching,
Copernic, EasyAsk,
Entopia, Entrieva,
Factiva, iPhrase,
ISYS, Mondosoft,
Muse Global,
SER, and Triplehop.
The Association
sponsor was Asilomar
Insitute for
Information Architecture.
To find out
more about events
at this year’s
conference, visit
the Enterprise
Search Summit
Web site at http://www.enterprisesearchsummit.com.
For information
on next year’s
Enterprise Search
Summit, please
contact Information
Today, Inc. at
(800) 300-9868
[outside the
U.S. call (609)
654-6266], e-mail
custserv@infotoday.com,
or visit us on
the Web at www.infotoday.com.
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