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 …
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 …
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 …
Lift and Shift as a method for GSA replacement In the two years since the announcement of the Google Search Appliance end of life and sales wind down, we have seen three trends arise from prospects and customers that we …
The Elastic Stack provides insights on how your users are searching. Log analysis is the first step to planning your GSA replacement. Why use Elastic Stack (ELK) in GSA replacement planning? We have written previously on uses for the Elastic …
MC+A welcomes Daniel Cadoch from our partner Coveo for a guest blog post. By: Daniel Cadoch (@DanCadoch) Replacing your Google Search Appliance does not need to induce panic. Yes, we’re less than 18 months away from its sunsetting – but …
Taxonomies are great, but your users do not want to browse. A core feature of any digital experience is “search.” Users find the specific content they are looking for quickly. Elevating search to an insight engine yield significant benefits and …
The paradigm of keyword search is over 25 years old. Given the emergence of machine learning and advanced ranking models, it is not the primary source of relevance for insights. Keywords as a driver for information retrieval is outmoded and …
Last month, our partner Attivio had a chance to sync up with Michael Cizmar, Managing Director, of MC+A, and ask him a few questions and welcome MC+A on as a partner. JZ: Tell me about MC+A. MC: I founded MC+A …
Photo by Tom van Hoogstraten on Unsplash In almost ten years in search consulting, you can’t help but encounter a good amount of requests for proposal (RFPs). These documents that formally solicit proposals from technology vendors and systems integrators (SI) serve as an …