Last Thursday, Google announced the winding down of sales of the current Google Search Appliance (GSA) to customers and partners. Support for the current hardware platform continues through 2019.
Company Selects Chile as Development Center of Excellence for Google for Work Solutions. Chicago, IL – June 23, 2015 – Michael Cizmar + Associates, LTD (MC+A), a charter Google for Work Partner, today announced the opening of its Santiago, Chile operations. Michael Cizmar + Associates Chile SpA will serve as a Development Center of Excellence, dedicated solely to the development …
MC+A is pleased to announce that Google Search for Work has named us as their 2014 Innovation Partner of the Year – Americas. We are excited because we feel this award highlights our commitment to the Google Search Appliance technology platform. We focus on delivering technology solutions and methodologies that transform business and our connectors for the GSA platform are …
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5 insights into why your search initiatives fail. Every modern application utilizes search to some extent. Given this, it is initially surprising many users report information retrieval issues within their organizations.
Michael Cizmar (@michaelcizmar) started MC+A ten years ago — before Big Data was used in daily conversation, and before knowledge management became part of the business lexicon. We sat down with him to reflect on the past 10 years. Why did you start MC+A? “ I wanted to “flatten” the company structure so that the organizational distance between employee and …
When the Sun-Times Media Group wanted to improve the search functionality on suntimes.com, they turned to locally renowned search experts MC+A for help. MC+A, a Google Enterprise Partner, accepted the challenge and developed a search platform roadmap for the project. CHICAGO, IL (PRWEB) JUNE 24, 2014 When the Sun-Times Media Group wanted to improve the search functionality on suntimes.com, they …
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SRCH2 in-memory database search provides compelling speed advantages when compared to Solr. SRCH2 recently announced the results of some in-house benchmark testing, and they are impressive. In comparing their in-memory search (SRCH2 4.3.2) solution to SOLR (Apache Solr 4.8.0), the results pointed to SRCH2 performance throughput increase. The details of the report can be found here on their website. Highlights …
When it comes to search, it can never be fast enough Read More »
Confluence is great, but no one buys it for its search capabilities. We make the case for improved search with Google Search Appliance.
MC+A & friends will run/walk 3.1 miles at “Move for the Kids” to support for patients & families at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
The daily interactions of search establish user behavior patterns setting expectations, criteria for success and expectations of how search should work.