Legacy, One-Size-Fits-All Search Doesn't Work

In an information-driven economy, workers without access to information find their daily tasks difficult or impossible to accomplish. The conventional wisdom amongst enterprise search vendors was that "one-size-fits-all" search tools were "good enough" for what typical users needed.  However, several fundamental flaws were unmasked by the demands of enterprise customers.

First, these basic search solutions ignored users and focused solely on keyword search terms, such that two completely different users in drastically different circumstances would receive identical search results if they entered the same search terms. These basic solutions provided little to no context to their search results, which returned largely irrelevant and not useful results to most users.

Second, these solutions failed to take into account the fact that users don't just want documents - they want as much useful information as possible, including work product, people, projects, expertise and relationships.

Third, legacy solutions require long query terms, time-consuming thesauri, dictionaries or ontologies, or large training sets in order to understand topics contained in a document or collection.  This forces corporate IT departments to spend precious budget and time customizing the highly manual system to meet their needs, not just at the initial deployment but regularly thereafter.

Relevant, "Actionable" Results Out of the Box: Welcome to Enterprise Search 3.0

Seeing this shortcoming, Recommind took a dramatically different approach: we built the CORE™ (Context Optimized Relevance Engine) platform, which automatically customizes search results for each individual user's needs and circumstances, thereby providing maximum context and "actionability" of information.  CORE also works out of the box, by identifying the meaning of any piece of information and relating such information to other, similar pieces of information automatically .

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