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WHEN: Thursday, December 15th, 2016. 6:30PM – 8:30PM CDT WHERE: Grant Park We Work. 332 S. Michigan Ave, 9th Floor Join us for an upcoming Enterprise Search Meetup in  Chicago, “Introducing 5.0: Elastic Stack, X-Pack & Elastic Cloud”. In this session, Nick Drost, Solutions Architect from Elastic, will be leading a discussion about Elastic 5.0. Nick has over 15 years of industry experience working as an employee, consultant, and pre-sales architect with numerous open systems and distributed technologies in the cloud and on-premise. Engage in an interesting conversation, followed by a […]

Michael Cizmar + Associates, LTD. (PRWEB), a charter Google for Work Partner (now Google Cloud) and 2014 Google Partner Innovation Award winner today announced managed service support for the Google Search Appliance (GSA). To help promote this service MC+A is excited to announce that from today through the end of the year it will include the Bronze Managed Service tier with any Google Search Appliance renewals for no additional cost. This new GSA managed service extends MC+A’s expertise, tools, and best practice methodologies to existing Google Search Appliance customers to

Don’t Panic. But it’s time to plan your Google Search Appliance Migration. Avoid the quickly approaching cliff. We suggestion starting your Google Search Appliance migration sooner rather than later. So Long Google Search Appliance (GSA) Google announced the winding down of the Google Search Appliance (GSA) earlier in February this year. The Google introduced the GSA in 2002, and it was the first product for enterprises created by Google. For more than a decade, it has been simplifying enterprise search.  If you’re interested in this technology, this 2016 will be your

An additional tool for Gmail users to save to Salesforce for free We are happy to announce our open source project to help integrate your Gmail and Salesforce accounts. This Google Chrome extension will be available via the Chrome store starting in June 2016. This new Chrome extension’s technical roots are based in our previous Gmail to Pika project which was designed to allow the legal aid community to work more efficiently by streamlining how they save case notes and attachments into their case management system. This experience along with

Integration projects require companies and professionals able to perform in complex environments, where the application of technological and management best practices are a must in order to minimize the risks, optimize resources (time, budget and people) and address any project issues early and proactively.

Last Thursday, Google announced the winding down of sales of the current Google Search Appliance (GSA) to customers and partners.  Support for the  current hardware platform continues through 2019.

Company Selects Chile as Development Center of Excellence for Google for Work Solutions. Chicago, IL – June 23, 2015 – Michael Cizmar + Associates, LTD (MC+A), a charter Google for Work Partner, today announced the opening of its Santiago, Chile operations.  Michael Cizmar + Associates Chile SpA will serve as a Development Center of Excellence, dedicated solely to the development of solutions for the Google For Work platform including the Google Search Appliance, Google Compute, and Google Apps. The Republic of Chile was chosen as the home for MC+A’s Latin American

MC+A is pleased to announce that Google Search for Work has named us as their 2014 Innovation Partner of the Year – Americas.  We are excited because we feel this award highlights our commitment to the Google Search Appliance technology platform.  We focus on delivering technology solutions and methodologies that transform business and our connectors for the GSA platform are a large part of that.  This award highlights our long history of success as a Google Search for Work partner.    “We are excited to be recognized for innovation by

5 insights into why your search initiatives fail.  Every modern application utilizes search to some extent.  Given this, it is initially surprising many users report information retrieval issues within their organizations.

Michael Cizmar (@michaelcizmar) started MC+A ten years ago — before Big Data was used in daily conversation, and  before knowledge management became part of the business lexicon.  We sat down with him to reflect on the past 10 years. Why did you start MC+A? “ I wanted to “flatten” the company structure so that the organizational distance between employee and management was less.” I had worked in consulting most of my career.  While finishing up my degree at Bradley University, I started working for some consulting companies.  Between my first