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Boring AI, Exciting IT

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MC+A Insight Guest Article. Original Article can be found here. 66 million years ago, an asteroid 10 KM in diameter struck earth near what is now the town of Chicxulub in the Yucatan. In its wake, a mass extinction event killed off 75% of all life on earth. Fast forward to present time, scientists are actively debating whether we are now in the Anthropocene Epoch, where the predominant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems are due to human activity. Some even pin the date the epoch began as the year 1950. If the volume […]

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Large Language Models Disrupting the Enterprise

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MC+A Insight Guest Article. Original Article can be found here. Not since Alexander Graham Bell asked his butler, Mr. Watson, to “come here. I want to see you,” has human communication gone through so radical a change in so short a time as ChatGPT has caused in a few short weeks. It has truly captured the public consciousness.Edison misheard “hullo” as “hello.” While no match to Bell’s exuberant “ahoy!” it is frequently the way we open conversations.Perhaps Prompt Engineering is the new hello.In the few short weeks since Kevin Roose

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Semantic Search & Discovery for eCommerce

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Why is the keyword search that powers so much of the web outside of Google and Amazon so awful? If the natural human language that instructs Alexa to turn on lights, or Siri to schedule a wake-up call could be used for guiding product discovery, our cumbersome and irritating process for finding and buying products could be improved immeasurably.

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Signals in the Noise – Insight Engines Magic Quadrant 2021

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Every quadrant report generates questions related to how vendors plot to the quadrants. Typically, all vendors who spent significant time with Gartner place well. There is considerable pride for the vendors that do well and questions on ranking criteria for those that did not as the quadrant ranking reflects their management and vision. Additionally, customers will often use this report alone to shortlist any search-specific ‘search’ projects. So, there are immediate benefits to a strong placement on the Quadrant. The Quadrant coming out later than usual did not reduce questions, even with our lower expectations for the report due to its short absence.

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Microsoft Search is not worth the wait.

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Building Intelligent Experiences – Insight Engines vs Microsoft Search Part 1 – Breaking Down Microsoft Cognitive Services Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in business have become as synonymous as salt and pepper on any primetime cooking program you might watch on the Food Network. Regardless of what solution you are ‘cooking up,’ it will likely benefit from applying it. Gartner collectively referrers to the technology section as Insights Engines, stating, “Insight engines augment search technology with artificial intelligence to deliver insights — in context and using various modalities — derived

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Web Crawling for Elastic App Search

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Elastic App Search is an excellent solution… Once you get your content into it. App Search’s New (7.9) Release still has complexity getting content in. A few weeks ago, Elastic announced its latest release to its Enterprise Search product line.  The new 7.9 release features a tighter integration between Kibana and Enterprise search.  This 7.9 release enabled some powerful features for App Search.  For example, App Search can now inherit the index lifecycle management (LM) policies to manage logs and analytics automatically.  LM helps you simplify managing retention policies so that you keep what you are interested in and nothing extra.  Elastic Cloud includes App Search.  Most companies today are using Elasticsearch in some fashion at some level in their organization.

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Parts catalog e-commerce search sucks and customers don’t care why

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PartzInsight is an AI Platform for your Part Catalog providing Amazon’s features, at Prime Subscription pricing The pandemic has transformed the parts catalog business from the counter to e-commerce.  No longer are consumers and mechanics heading to the nearest outlet store to hang around the counter to shop for parts.  Within a few months, the industry instantly transformed as a result of the pandemic and shutdowns ordered.  As a result, Online sales of auto parts has already grown by 30% this year. Rapid growth in reaction to customer demand for

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An Attivio Migration. What’s Next for the Attivio Community?

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Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine AIE was a technology platform built for search experts by search experts.  Over the past few years, it gained top spots in analyst grading (Gartner and Forrester).  This came from the experiences of a team that worked for Fast Search and Transfer who was the premier search company in the 2000s.  This unique perspective led to a fantastically vibrant and technologically deep solution platform with a bright future for partners and clients.  That future became unclear as Attivio announced their acquisition by ServiceNow with clients let

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