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Angel Maldonado

Had a chance to enjoy Gartner after three years of absence, it stroked me that every company has adopted the role of the CIO as well as the increase on the participants awareness of the information retrieval challenges.

In my view, Gartner affects the market with regards to Gartner’s strength first, supplier’s competition second, IT budgets of major companies third and ultimately, the compelling sharing of ideas of the IT departments while being entertained.

There is nothing new on this view, this chain of benefits has been and will be standard on any tradeshow where many fascinating conversations are finally ruined as the prospect requests a gift (anything) while the supplier rips the participant’s details pointing the scan and the red light towards the batch while beeping to update the database of prospects for further actions.

Who manages IT budgets? Is it the new CIO role that everyone has adopted so suddenly, sharing nothing else but a remarkable phonetic likeness with the other CXOs roles?

Evidently budgets are and will be managed by the head of finance or CFO who is loyal to the CEO strategy and the reality of numbers at the same time. Rapidly, generally and evidently speaking, the CIOs report to the CEO of the value and risk of key innovations so these are taken to consideration.

As said above, the increase of awareness of the participants on the information access was more than noticeable,. I have chatted with over 50 different people (-and scanned-) on the matter throughout 2 days only, mostly everyone was aware of the basics and many, many had already some initiatives to tackle the issue which lead them to even a greater level of awareness with regards to the complexities and constant changes.

I would just have changed one single thing; there was too much talk on technology and fewer of methodology, too much on what you do that others don’t. Is not about your tools which can always be more and better, is about your problem, its shape and form, its specific demands and how these map to technology features, but first comes the understanding of the problem, second the available technologies.

Borja Ramirez

El pasado dia 30 de Septiembre se publicó el Magic Quadrant del 2008 para Information Access Technology.  Creo que es un informe bastante fiel a la realidad, lo cual ya es en si, todo un “statement” considerando lo oscuro que es el mercado de los analistas independientes y su relación con los fabricantes. Si os parece, sin ningun orden de prioridad, os resalto mis observaciones:

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Angel Maldonado

¿A quién se le han ocurrido estos nombres?

Personalmente Enterprise Search me suena fatal, no digamos Búsqueda Empresarial (y esto dicho desde un blog en busquedaempresarial.com!).

Nombres simples a problemas complejos

Compliance (cumplimiento?), Records Management (tal cual; sin traducción) Inteligencia de Negocio (este es total), etc. Son solo etiquetas, pretenden ser simples pero detrás se cada una de ellas se esconden universos desconocidos, aventuras y desventuras de las que hablar es para muchos anti-comercial.

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