Over the last few years there has been a very significant increase in the awareness of the value of search. It may not yet have translated into an equally significant increase in sales of search ...

Refine the Request for Information process to make sure vendors give you the information you need The procurement process for an enterprise search application often involves an imbalance in ...

Readying for battle in the emerging areas of local and desktop search, enterprise search vendors are rolling out software to counter moves by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. FAST Search & Transfer ASA on ...

Nearly all search vendors have some sort of agreement, and the larger the client, the more complex the terms of service will be with procurement as well. Most of ...

Search vendors sometimes give away feature-constrained or capacity-clipped versions of their enterprise solutions. An example of the latter is IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition – a very good pick for ...