Denis’ Blog

Forrester released today their new report on Enterprise Search. They are ranking Autonomy, Endeca, FAST and Vivisimo as the leaders in this space. That’s pretty consistent with what we’ve seen in the last months . And congrats to Vivisimo to enter the leader quadrant. Where I am more surprised is that Forrester did not evaluated Exalead. Exalead is demonstrating exceptional performance on huge volume, a neat architecture and a great value for the price. Don’t see it as a “we push the frenchies” post. Customers serious about search must also evaluate Exalead.

I will hold two presentations in Paris next Wednesday. One will be on Enterprise 2.0 and the other on Enterprise Search. Feel free to join, the access is free if registered. I will present our return on experience on Enterprise 2.0 especially with social tagging and bottom-up self organizing communities of practices. For entreprise search, I will present the state of the art of the new holy grail: finding the information you are looking for.

Endeca announced today that Intel and SAP have invested in Endeca. So with these new information, I modify my bet:

• SAP will buy Endeca by the end of 2008. Endeca will not go IPO.
• Autonomy will be acquired by IBM.
• Oracle will not acquire anyone.
• Exalead and Vivisimo will go IPO.

Your bets?