John Porter

John Porter is a Senior Solutions Consultant at Vivisimo with more than 20 years of experience developing, delivering and selling enterprise software solutions across a diverse range of industries. In this role, John is responsible for understanding customers' information challenges and architecting technical solutions to help them meet those challenges. John holds a Masters of Computer Science degree from Villanova University with Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Architecture from the University of Michigan.
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Evolving Beyond Traditional Search

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Effective search is a difficult problem to solve for most organizations. The challenge of tackling complex interdependencies between source systems and trying to satisfy stakeholders with different search needs can be daunting. Unfortunately, poor search isn’t just an inconvenience, it’s a liability. The inability to find critical information when it’s needed most diminishes trust in systems impedes employee learning and leads to less than optimal decisions.

The good news is, these problems can be solved.

Search-based applications enter the findability fray promising to shape enterprise search in a manner uniquely suited to tame the information explosion challenge. These applications have the inherent ability to aggregate information from multiple systems while applying contextually relevant domain knowledge, allowing them to answer questions not readily available from any single source system.

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