Search – What’s in it for you?

By: ArnoldIT.com
The search and content processing sector is in transition, making for both an exciting and challenging time. Stephen E. Arnold from ArnoldIT.com, author of the first three editions of the Enterprise Search report, seeks answers from Kamran Khan (Search Technologies), Paul Doscher (Exalead), Marc Krellenstein (Lucid Imagination) and Jason Hunter (Mark Logic).

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