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 …

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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 …

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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 talk to that are consistent across industry verticals and business units: The desired to delay …

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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 Stack. We often the first step and deciding where to go to look at where …

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