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Web Crawling for Elastic App Search

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

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?

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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The Roadmap to Maturity Delivering Intelligent Experiences

Our Approach to Maturity? MC+A specializes in providing strategy, experience, implementation, and support services to organizations looking to deploy ML, AI, and other related technologies to deliver intelligent and personalized experiences.  We focused on simplifying complex technology through a prescriptive methodology, transforming how users interact with information through technology. The Need for Process to Deliver Better Digital Experiences Most digital experience projects that involve search start with intentions to provide ‘Google for our organization’ but fail to deliver on anything close to that promise. In delivering over 200 search and search derivative experiences for organizations across

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Adjusting to the New Normal: Tips for Working Remotely

In a matter of a few short weeks, a new normal was set upon us. Suddenly, a vast majority of people around the world have been asked for the health of everyone to work remotely, from home to the best of their ability. We are all trying to do our part to ‘flatten the curve’ of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is why social distancing with your laptop and mobile device are vital. Adjusting to being as productive and successful at home as in the office setting can be challenging. MC+A’s

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MC+A’s Response to Covid-19

The MC+A team, like many of you, is following the ongoing situation with COVID-19. First, we would like to say that our thoughts are with everyone affected by this disease and its ancillary impact on the global community. Second, I want to state that MC+A remains committed to our customers’ success and are continuing to support our customers, some of whom are providing the backbone for the fight against this pandemic, to ensure minimal disruptions during this time.   MC+A last week after reviewing the recommendations on responding to Covid-19 from

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Interview: Thinking Out-of-the-Box with MC+A

Michael Cizmar, CEO of MC+A, describes identifying the key value drivers in solutions ideal for implementing Coveo. Coveo Partner Insights from Coveo Impact Thinking Out-of-the-Box with MC+A Transcript: MC+A is focused primarily on inside engine implementation. We take the platform and we enable it to do things that aren’t necessarily out of the box, whether that be a custom connector or a UI that needs to be configured. We have the experience of building a solution end to end. The customers that we partner with are typically Fortune 1000 companies

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MC+A expands investment in Ecosystem as an Elastic Advanced Reseller

Chicago based technology firm’s investment in the Elastic technology ecosystem expands solution offerings to customers seeking strategic consulting and implementation services focused around the Elastic Stack. CHICAGO, IL – [March 12, 2020] – Michael Cizmar + Associates, LTD (MC+A), a technology consulting firm and provider of advanced search, analytics and big data solutions, today announced its continued collaboration with Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, as an Advanced Reseller in the Elastic Partner Program. We’re pleased to expand our partnership with Elastic for even greater alignment that

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How your automotive e-commerce site can compete with Amazon

Amazon-like experiences for your auto parts e-commerce site give you an edge. According to CNBC, while other areas of the economy add payroll, retail “is one of just two industries that have lost jobs over the last few years.”  This reduction in jobs is the resulting outcome of consumers shifts focusing on online convivence and a focus on lower prices.  The automotive retail industry is no different. Amazon is expected to sell nearly $6.3 billion worth of auto parts, accessories and car care products in 2019.  This number doesn’t include the projected $1.6 billion in replacement parts made by original equipment manufacturers

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Cognitive Search and User Intent

What’s in-between your users and a great experience is a search box. – Michael Cizmar Cognitive Search and The Forrester Wave update Last week, Forrester released “The Forrester Wave™: Cognitive Search, Q2 2019.”  Released initially in 2017; this report validates technology vendors across a variety of categories including market presence, strategy, and their current offerings with regards to Cognitive Search.  The report’s positioning is dependent on Forrester’s evaluation of the vendor’s market presence, strategy, and current offering in regards to Cognitive search. To be considered for inclusion in the report,

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