Comments on: Not Marching to Google’s Vision http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/09/29/not-marching-to-googles-vision/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel Tunkelang http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/09/29/not-marching-to-googles-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Daniel Tunkelang Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:44:37 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=464#comment-400 It's been suggested to me that the post was simply intended as a compliment to the simplicity of Endeca's administrative tools. If so, I apologize to the folks at New Idea Engineering for overreacting. It’s been suggested to me that the post was simply intended as a compliment to the simplicity of Endeca’s administrative tools. If so, I apologize to the folks at New Idea Engineering for overreacting.

]]> By: Daniel Tunkelang http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/09/29/not-marching-to-googles-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Daniel Tunkelang Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:56:12 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=464#comment-398 Endeca sells an information access platform that enterprises use to power enterprise search, business intelligence, and other business applications that defy easy categorization. You can learn about customers at http://www.endeca.com/customers/ I agree (and am delighted) that the days of selling expensive shelf-ware are numbered. I am also proud that, while Endeca might not be making as much revenue as some of the more established enterprise software players, our customers are using our software--sometimes in very cool ways! And we're not doing too badly: http://www.endeca.com/corporate-info/press-room/pr/pr_2008-7-30.html Anyway, I don''t mean to rent this space out to Endeca's marketing department, which in any case has not approved this message! Rather, I wanted to express my objection to shoddy analysis that not only mischaracterized my employer, but contradicted the vision I've been advocating personally. Endeca sells an information access platform that enterprises use to power enterprise search, business intelligence, and other business applications that defy easy categorization. You can learn about customers at http://www.endeca.com/customers/

I agree (and am delighted) that the days of selling expensive shelf-ware are numbered. I am also proud that, while Endeca might not be making as much revenue as some of the more established enterprise software players, our customers are using our software–sometimes in very cool ways! And we’re not doing too badly: http://www.endeca.com/corporate-info/press-room/pr/pr_2008-7-30.html

Anyway, I don”t mean to rent this space out to Endeca’s marketing department, which in any case has not approved this message! Rather, I wanted to express my objection to shoddy analysis that not only mischaracterized my employer, but contradicted the vision I’ve been advocating personally.

]]> By: Daniel Lemire http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/09/29/not-marching-to-googles-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-397 Daniel Lemire Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:11:39 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=464#comment-397 Certainly, in Business Intelligence (BI) in general, we have to move away from expert-driven "intelligence" and let the crowd (me, you and my neighbor) make the tool into what they need to be. The days when you went to the golf course with the CEO, sold him expensive software that nobody would ever use, then come back the year after and ask for even more money... these days are gone. Oh! Oracle and others still pull it out... but for how long? Disclaimer: I have no idea what Endeca sells exactly. Certainly, in Business Intelligence (BI) in general, we have to move away from expert-driven “intelligence” and let the crowd (me, you and my neighbor) make the tool into what they need to be.

The days when you went to the golf course with the CEO, sold him expensive software that nobody would ever use, then come back the year after and ask for even more money… these days are gone. Oh! Oracle and others still pull it out… but for how long?

Disclaimer: I have no idea what Endeca sells exactly.

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