We will be on site discussing Google Apps and its benefits to your business.

For more information, including links to directions and registration check out our event page.

It’s been 3 years since the previous release of the Office.  Much has changed in the economy and the enterprise landscape.  We just download the versions and will begin to test them and report back.

The discussion was very invigorating.  It was good to see our friend Michael Lock, from Google Enterprise, as well as the other panel speakers: Willian Farrow, Surinder Kumar and Hardik Bhatt give there insights on how companies can innovate.

Stay tuned!  We will be following up with a series of executive topics in the coming months.  If you have any thoughts you would like to share, drop us a line via the contact us form on website.

MC+A President, Michael Cizmar welcomed the stores launch. “We are extremely excited about the store coming online. It should allow for a streamline purchasing experience for our clients and expand our reach in the marketplace.”

You can visit our store at: http://stop.mcplusa.com

Tuesday, Dieselpoint announced the release of a new pipeline architecture as open source software. MC+A’s president, Michael Cizmar, will be serving on the advisory board.

Thursday, May 08, 2008, (Worldwide Headquarters – Chicago, IL)

Today, MC+A announces that Michael Cizmar, president of MC+A, will be serving on the advisory board of Dieselpoint’s OpenPipeline. Currently, search, text analytics and connector vendors find themselves constantly reengineering their software to integrate with closed, proprietary systems. OpenPipeline works out-of-the-box with Dieselpoint Search, but can be used with any search engine.

“Since 2002, we have been working with our clients to implement search technologies. We see a tremendous potential for our clients because OpenPipeline simplifies many of the complexities of the UIMA.”, said Michael Cizmar, President of MC+A.

Both broader and simpler than IBM’s UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture), OpenPipeline provides a common architecture for connectors to data sources, file filters, text analyzers and modules to distribute documents across a network. It is fully functional out of the box and includes an installer, a job scheduler, file scanner and crawlers, doc filters, and point and click interface with drag and drop module installation. Document processing can be centralized or parallelized as needed. The transport mechanism is simple, web-services XML over HTTP. RSS/Atom feeds are also possible. The development philosophy behind OpenPipeline stresses simple, elegant design, and massive scalability. Minimal external dependencies and straightforward plug-in implementation ensure that the learning curve is low. OpenPipeline Beta is available for free download via the Apache License 2.0.

Current Advisory Board members include individuals from enterprise search, text analytics and connector firms and consultancies. More information can be found at www.openpipeline.org. MC+A is dedicated to solving business challenges by enabling organizations to derive maximum value from their business intelligence assets. With expertise in areas of portal development, management and architecture, and supporting technologies.

About MC+A

MC+A provide solutions around managing business intelligence. We focus on helping our clients build, find and share those assets securely. Additionally, MC+A provides managed services implementing enterprise 2.0 initiatives.

MC+A, A North America leader in technologies related to enterprise search, today is announcing the opening of its newest office in Santa Cruz, CA. The new office will provide technology products, service and support to MC+A’s expanding customer base in the San Fransico Bay area. This office expands MC+A’s global footprint and underscores the company’s standing as the leading figure implementing Google enterprise technologies.

San Francisco, CA
1213 Ocean Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060