On December 13th, join MC+A’s founder and managing partner Michael Cizmar for a detailed debrief on the most recent update to the Google Search Appliance, version 6.8.
REGISTER TO ATTEND THIS FREE WEBINAR.
Monday, December 13, 2010
11:30PM PST | 2:30PM EST
THE GOOGLE SEARCH 6.8 WEBINAR WILL COVER:
Cloud Connect – integrated search with Google Apps, Site Search and Twitter
People Search – Search profile information about people in your organization
Dynamic Navigation – filter search results with specific metadata attributes
Active-Active – provide high availability by directing search traffic to multiple appliances
Sharepoint 2010 – Search all content within Sharepoint 2010 out of the box
About Michael
Michael Cizmar is the founder and President of MC+A, one of the very first Google Enterprise Professional partners and has advised organizations such as Volkswagen, New York Post, Los Angeles Metro, and Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco on findablity in the enterprise. Michael also serves on the Advisory Board to Open Pipeline.
For more information about this and any upcoming events, please contact us.
On September 23rd, join Smartlogic’s Toby Conrad and MC+A’s founder and managing partner Michael Cizmar for a detailed debrief on how combining Smartlogic’s Semaphore with a Google Search Appliance turns a good search engine into the platform for compelling, intuitive search applications.
Register to Attend this Free Webinar.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
12:00PM PST | 3:00PM EST
The Google Search / Semaphone webinar will cover:
GSA search foundations (including the 6.4 updates!)
The semantic extension for ontology and classification that is Smartlogic’s “Semaphore”
Understanding the GSA integration
Using metadata to drive faceted search and intuitive, dynamic content navigation
Providing intelligent links and recommendations between topics
Using topic pages to drive more traffic to your site and to keep people for longer
About the Presenters
About Michael
Michael Cizmar is the founder and President of MC+A, one of the very first Google Enterprise Professional partners and has advised organizations such as Volkswagen, New York Post, Los Angeles Metro, and Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco on findablity in the enterprise. Michael also serves on the Advisory Board to Open Pipeline.
About Toby
Toby Conrad has been a Senior Consultant with Smartlogic for seven years and has advised organizations such as NASA, Bank of America, RBS, and Schlumberger.
For more information about this and any upcoming events, please contact us.
A couple weeks ago Google unveiled what they are calling a “Go Google Cloud calculator” It can be founded at www.gonegoogle.com. The site will help you make a strong business case for switching to Google Apps. While you there you can create a custom URL to share, a presentation PDF, and even a poster to help foster discussion around the business impact of switching to Google Apps. It is worth checking out.
As someone who watches the Superbowl for the ads, seeing the Google “Parisian Love” was a real treat. With a dash of sugar Google really highlighted the broad features of the Google search engine. The Google Search Appliance provides many of the same functions, securely for the enterprise. It was get to point the the TV and tell friends and family “That is what we do for clients.” Which is pretty much true….well add a dash of Kerburos or a custom SAML interface
When Google originally announced the features for the most recent refresh of Google Analytics we were excited. But not that they have finished rolling most of them out, to everyone’s analytics accounts, it is pretty awesome. For a free product Google Analytics now is pretty feature rich.
Of all the new Google Analytics features we feel the there are 3 the really stand out.
1. Custom Variables
Finally! Custom variables in Google Analytics will now allow you to set up to five variables per page. This is a vast improvement over the old _setVar. You can set three types: visitor, session or page. The flexibility this will allow is amazing. This feature is even more compelling when you consider that you can now also use custom variables in advanced segments.
2. Annotations
This is very helpful. Add notes to data that will allow you to keep better track of external marketing’s effect on traffic.
3. Expanded Goals Functionality
Let’s me honest, four goals was never enough. Not a problem anymore! You now have 20 goal that are segmented into Goal groups for 5 each. This is great for grouping conversion actions. In addition to an expanded number of goals you can also track site engagement through goals.
Head over to Google Code to get all the documentation on these new features.
Yesterday, Google announced a new Asynchronous Tracking Code for Google Analytics. While initially in Beta, the code will allow for tracking of events before all the scripts on your page load. Should be a great improvement for rich media or large content site tracking.
The new tracking snippet offers the following benefits:
Faster tracking code load times for your web pages due to improved browser execution
Enhanced data collection and accuracy
Elimination of tracking errors from dependencies when the JavaScript hasn’t fully loaded
The MC+A team will be hosting a webinar to discuss the new features of the recently released Google Search Appliance version 6.2 software. We will be covering the business impact of these features and making recommendations for upgrading your appliance.
We believe in the benefits of effective search. At MC+A, search is more than an add-on or after thought. We strongly feel that search should be at the core of your IT efforts to help you work better. It today’s market, even with talk that the worst is behind us, reducing cost of technology investments is important. IT investments need to produce results and justify their cost.
Along these lines we’re proud to announce a new Search Hardware Renewal Program, design specifically to help our current Google Search Appliance users to renew their solution along with the services they need to maximize their return on investment. Effective November 1st we’re offering all renewing Google Search Appliance customer a discount on our renewal hardware packaged with our Search Best Practices service review. We are hoping to help our clients continue their enterprise search initiatives, maintaining a substantial ROI and competitive edge due to less wasted time and resources searching for documents.
What is the Search Hardware Incentive Program?
The program is straight forward. Current customers will have an opportunity to trade in their old end of license GSA for a discount credit toward their renewal.
Simply turn in your old GSA for a brand new yellow box (GB-7007 running version 6.0) and MC+A will provide a 10% discount on renewal hardware with our Search Best Practices package. We’ll even cover the shipping for your old GSA.
What is in it for you?
Keeping up with the latest Google search technology. There have been three major releases in the past 12 months and a new appliance platform the GB-7007.
MC+A implementation experience. Over 75 implementations in the past two years. We’ll help you maximize your ROI and leverage your search technology so that you’re effectively using it shortly after your purchase.
So, how does it work?
Inform your sales rep that you would like to take advantage of SHIP.
MC+A will process your hardware renewal and execute the SBP review.
Once your new hardware is up and running. MC+A will process your hardware trade in. We’ll even cover the shipping for your old GSA.
Truly see what the Google Search Appliance can do for you an your business. Renew today.
A few weeks back Google announced a “Welcome Package” for new customers who purchase a Google Search Appliance with a 1 Million document license. As a Google Enterprise Partner we are excited to be participating in this promotion.
Return on Information
We believe very strongly in enabling clients to manage their technology solutions, and because of this have always offered and strongly suggested our Jumpstart services to all our clients. What is exciting about this promotion is that new customers will be getting 2 days of consultation on getting your Google solution up and running, for FREE.
The Specifics
From Google:
“With this ROI JumpStart, new GSA users will accelerate their onboarding experience, from purchasing to deploying to getting relevant results to end users. Our partners will work with your team on site for two days, at no cost to you, sharing proven expertise and the GSA’s out-of-the-box results and getting your new GSA indexing repositories across your organization.”
Interested in more information about the ROI Jumpstart Offer? Contact MC+A and we’ll be happy to discuss the Jumpstart in detail.
