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Search & Recommendations

• Side-by-Side Comparison of Six Recommendations Solutions

  Spreadsheet Lays Out Vendor Performance from Avail, Baynote, Certona, Loomia, Omniture, and RichRelevance against Our Detailed Requirements

  by Susan Aldrich

  Our side-by-side comparison spreadsheet analyzes six leading recommendations solutions.
  Nov. 11, 2010

  Technologies

  

• Certona Resonance Recommendations

  Automated Optimization Balanced with Granular Control

  by Susan Aldrich

  If you are in retail or B2B ecommerce, Certona Resonance Recommendations should be on your short list. Certona’s recommendations solution is among the most mature on the market, with a high degree of automation and merchant control.
  Sep. 30, 2010

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• Baynote Collective Intelligence Platform and Recommendation Applications

  Automated Recommendations, Search, and Navigation for Multiple Industries

  by Susan Aldrich

  If you are in retail or B2B ecommerce, publishing, telecommunications, travel, media, healthcare, high-tech, consumer packaged goods, or manufacturing, Baynote’s recommendation solutions should be on your short list.
  Jul. 8, 2010

  Technologies

  

• Avail Intelligence Behavioral Merchandising

  Platform Automates Merchandising, Recommendations, Social Search

  by Susan Aldrich

  If you are in retail or B2B ecommerce, Avail Behavioral Merchandising should be on your short list. Avail Intelligence’s solution, among the most mature on the market, with unique support for collaborative merchandising and strong client care.
  May. 13, 2010

  Technologies

  

• Omniture Recommendations

  Integration with Powerful Omniture Marketing Suite

  by Susan Aldrich

  If you are in ecommerce, publishing, or advertising, Omniture Recommendations should be on your short list. Omniture’s marketing suite is very strong, with a scalable hosting infrastructure, and Omniture’s client care support marketers cross channel.
  Apr. 1, 2010

  Technologies

  

• RichRelevance Recommendations

  Dynamic, Automated Optimization of 40 Recommendation Strategies

  by Susan Aldrich

  If you are in retail ecommerce, RichRelevance’s RichRecs should be on your short list. RichRecs automatically selects the best of its 40 recommendation strategies to meet the merchant’s stated goals.
  Feb. 4, 2010

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• Recommendation Evaluation Framework, Version 1

  Evaluating Recommendation Engines, Platforms or Services

  by Susan Aldrich

  Recommendations are hot, solving problems from order size to search to personalization. We identify the key criteria for selecting a recommendation solution.
  Jan. 7, 2010

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• Search Product and Company Update 2H2008

  Surprisingly Successful Second Half Caps Economic Challenge of 2008

  by Susan Aldrich

  Despite the U.S. recession, the search vendors on my watch list performed quite well during the first half.
  Apr. 16, 2009

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• Ecommerce Search Evaluation: Omniture Merchandising

  Ecommerce Search, Merchandising, and Marketing

  by Susan Aldrich

  Omniture Merchandising provides a very strong search, navigation, marketing, and merchandising platform for retailers, that should be on your short list.
  Mar. 5, 2009

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• Search Product and Company Update 1H 2008

  Impressive First Half Begins a Potentially Painful 2008

  by Susan Aldrich

  Despite the U.S. recession, the search vendors on my watch list performed quite well during the first half.
  Dec. 4, 2008

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• Ecommerce Search Evaluation: Mercado Ignition

  User Interface, Ecommerce Search, Merchandising, and Marketing

  by Susan Aldrich

  With Ignition, Mercado creates an environment that streamlines the efforts of shoppers and merchandisers. Retailers must consider Ignition at the top of their choices for search and merchandising.
  Sep. 18, 2008

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• Ecommerce Search Planning and Evaluation Framework, Version 1

  How to Plan and Select Search, Navigation, and Discovery Solutions for Ecommerce Web Sites

  by Susan Aldrich

  Here is everything you need to know in order to plan, select, and manage ecommerce search, navigation, and discovery.
  Aug. 28, 2008

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• PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Ecommerce Search Solutions

  Featuring Celebros, Endeca, Fredhopper, Mercado, and SLI Systems

  by Susan Aldrich

  We compare five leading ecommerce search offerings against our 230 evaluation criteria, to pick the leader.
  Jul. 24, 2008

  Strategies

  

• Search Product and Company Update - Part 2, 2007

  Part 2, Public Companies: Terrific 2007

  by Susan Aldrich

  Our recap of 2007 concludes that it was a pretty good year for the seven publicly-traded search technology companies on our watch list, with gains of more than 8,000 customers.
  Jun. 19, 2008

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• Search Product and Company Update - Part 1, 2H2007

  Part 1, Privately Held Companies: Strong Second Half Finishes a Strong 2007

  by Susan Aldrich

  Seventeen privately-held vendors on our search technology watch list mostly had another good half, although, with 772 new enterprise customers, growth was roughly flat compared to last half. Revenue growth was strong, reaching as high as 300 percent.
  Mar. 27, 2008

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• Enterprise Search Planning and Evaluation Matrix, Version 3

  A Blank Matrix to Facilitate Your Evaluation

  by Susan Aldrich

  To assist you in your enterprise search planning and evaluation efforts, we are presenting the criteria in matrix form with blank columns. You can use this matrix to notate the capabilities of the short list of products you are currently investigating.
  Jan. 17, 2008

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• Enterprise Search Planning and Evaluation Framework, Version 3

  How to Plan and Select Search, Navigation, and Discovery Solutions for Web Sites, Applications, Intranets, and as Enterprise Platforms

  by Susan Aldrich

  Here is everything you need to know in order to plan, select, and manage enterprise search and navigation.
  Jan. 3, 2008

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• Avoiding Search Pitfalls

  How to Sidestep and Recover from the Worst Problems

  by Susan Aldrich

  There are six big pitfalls that are peculiar to search projects. We have some advice on how to avoid them, or escape them if you’re already in the hole.
  Nov. 8, 2007

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• The First Big Mistake in Search and Knowledge Projects

  Establishing the Right Vision and Compelling Communications

  by Susan Aldrich

  The first pitfall your search project encounters is the most deadly—but we can steer you around it.
  Jul. 19, 2007

  Strategies

  

• High Technology Search and Navigation Test Drive

  Finding Specific Information about FAST ESP, Google Search Appliance, IBM OmniFind Edition and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

  by Susan Aldrich

  How well do search vendors do at delivering information to their customers? Check out our test drive of FAST, Google, IBM and Oracle.
  Apr. 19, 2007

  Strategies