Funnelback at CIKM 2011 and on the BBC
The 20th ACM conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) took place in Glasgow last week and featured Funnelback's Chief Scientist, David Hawking, in a number of talks and sessions.
The BBC covered the event on their website and on BBC Radio Scotland. The BBC's online report, "Mining the Web for Big Data", includes David Hawking's comments on the huge value that effective search offers to organisations through leveraging internal and external data and increasing productivity of staff; "The failure to find a single document could cost millions of pounds, so there's the opportunity to add huge value if the information tools work better."
You can listen to the BBC Radio report of the CIKM conference, which also includes David Hawking (skip to 19:50 minutes for the report). David presents a common business case - preparing a tender for a business opportunity - and highlights how effective search can help to find internal expertise, locate relevant data and speed the process to ensure the resultant tender is accurate and delivered on time. David summarises, "Information tools can bring huge value to the organisation if they work effectively."
About CIKM 2011
Since 1992, the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings.
