The Semantic Puzzle

Thomas Thurner

Enterprise Search goes Open Source

management_lenz_webIn his recent interview Andreas BlumauerAndreas Blumauer studied Computer Sciences and Business Administration and started his career as a software developer for financial services. In 1998 he co-founded punkt.net Services, a specialised software company, which has developed several national and international knowledge platforms. He ... (SWC) asked Mario Lenz, from german-based knowledge management solution provider EMPOLIS, about their OS-Initative SMILA. As Lenz explained, SMILAExtensible framework for building search solutions to access unstructured information in the enterprise. (http://www.eclipse.org/smila/) acts within a domain of various approaches and already established solutions re. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. So, he sees SMILA’s USP in: “a standardized way of representing, accessing and managing those unstructured data which not exist today. Rather, each vendor ships his own, proprietary solution. SMILA’s goals are to define and implement such a standard infrastructure framework and to establish a community bringing it forward.”

Besides an insight in many aspects of the initiative, the interview provides thoughts on how connected business-models, in providing services, could look like.

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2 thoughts on “Enterprise Search goes Open Source

  1. Thank you for this blog.

    In my opinion Enterprise Search is the solution for every organisation.
    The organisations will see the benefits and the productivity will raise.

  2. Hi there …

    I think this sound really intersting – Would love to hear more, espacially I would like to hear if SMILAs ERP software has a CRM module to ir as well??

    Br.

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