The MC+A team, like many of you, is following the ongoing situation with COVID-19. First, we would like to say that our thoughts are with everyone affected by this disease and its ancillary impact on the global community. Second, I want to state that MC+A remains committed to our customers’ success and are continuing to …
Michael Cizmar, CEO of MC+A, describes identifying the key value drivers in solutions ideal for implementing Coveo. Coveo Partner Insights from Coveo Impact Thinking Out-of-the-Box with MC+A Transcript: MC+A is focused primarily on inside engine implementation. We take the platform and we enable it to do things that aren’t necessarily out of the box, whether …
Chicago based technology firm’s investment in the Elastic technology ecosystem expands solution offerings to customers seeking strategic consulting and implementation services focused around the Elastic Stack. CHICAGO, IL – [March 12, 2020] – Michael Cizmar + Associates, LTD (MC+A), a technology consulting firm and provider of advanced search, analytics and big data solutions, today announced …
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Amazon-like experiences for your auto parts e-commerce site give you an edge. According to CNBC, while other areas of the economy add payroll, retail “is one of just two industries that have lost jobs over the last few years.” This reduction in jobs is the resulting outcome of consumers shifts focusing on online convivence and a focus on lower prices. The …
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What’s in-between your users and a great experience is a search box. – Michael Cizmar Cognitive Search – The Forrester Wave update Last week, Forrester released “The Forrester Wave™: Cognitive Search, Q2 2019.” Released initially in 2017; this report validates technology vendors across a variety of categories including market presence, strategy, and their current offerings …
The Aftermarket is e-Commerce Recently, Hedges and Company reported that auto parts sales directly influenced by digital and e-commerce will increase to $152 billion by 2021. Modern e-commerce is more than just having a storefront is all about search. Industry research is suggesting that there are at least 70 million aftermarket products searches every month …
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Insight Engines are emergent leading you to the next best action. Moving on from Enterprise Search to Insight Engines Enterprise search is a term used to describe a mature technology sector that focuses on indexing content from many business knowledge repositories (File Shares, Salesforce, ServiceNow) and making it securely retrievable within an organization. There have …
A quick update: Insight Engines propel MC+A’s > 100% YOY Services Growth. Starting in 2016, MC+A began the transition from the Google Search Appliance to the next generation of search-related technologies. Gartner classified this combination of search ingestion and machine learning technologies as “Insight Engines” in their Magic Quadrant report as a search platform that …
Reflecting & Looking forward – Insight Engines adoption drives growth Read More
Why Field Mapping? The Google Search Appliance was effectively schemaless and required no mapping of content source fields and metadata to an internal schema. The schema-less design is in complete contrast to every other search index. Through the many migrations that we’ve performed in the past year, we’ve noticed an emergent pattern where our customers …
GSA Replacement Pro Tip: You Should be Mapping Fields Read More
Use an innovation playbook to improve business outcomes. Many CIOs and IT leaders are feeling the pressure to build the innovative projects and ideas using emerging technology like chatbots, virtual assistants, AI and more, but they’re at a loss on how to get started and how to use search as a secret weapon to build …
How to Innovate with Search. Habits of Successful Teams Read More