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Elasticsearch is a powerful search engine bringing to Enterprises the kind of search power we have grown accustomed to as users on the internet. However, the issue of what information should be seen by individuals in the enterprise requires careful thought and some implementation experience. This tutorial addresses the issue and provides a concrete example along with the code used to implement the use case.

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This my friend's daughter, Addy. She's a MAKE A WISH kid who had this wish... to be a pop star in her own video... and here... that wish comes true!

Many executives that I encounter think that UX work is just designing screens. It’s not. And, in fact, as we move more toward a connected “Internet of Things” world, user experience design is going to be less about screens and more about how different systems and processes interact with one another. Burgeoning UX specialties like service design and content strategy that are more about process and content design than UI creation are leading the way.

RMS Exceedance Conference 2014 in Washington, D.C. RMS booth showcasing the CRIS Portal powered by OpenCrowd! Smashing success!

What's Trending Now in Enterprise Search? Learn about the beginning of a new era as OpenCrowd's very own Dave Feng presents on how incorporating Smart Search, based on ElasticSearch, can be used to dramatically boost the performance of complex, workflow-driven enterprise applications or dashboard analytics that would otherwise be hindered from performance limitations of relational databases. Feng digs into two case studies. The first is a company which uses Smart Search to provide analytics and drill-down capabilities on terabytes of government data and the second is an investment bank which uses Smart Search to drive risk management applications on a global scale.  

Interesting blog for anyone getting into the search debate. OpenCrowd was one of the first adopters of Elasticsearch and has extensive experience with Apache Solr as well. There is a reason it's being used as behind so many large Internet sites like GitHub, StumbleUpon and Stack Overflow not to mention large media companies like AP, NY TIMES and Bloomberg. "Certainly a big part of Elastic Search’s popularity is how easy it is to deploy, scale out, monitor and maintain. Certainly much easier than deploying something based on Hadoop." Good read... 

Search can be used to dramatically boost the performance of complex, workflow-driven enterprise applications or dashboard analytics that would otherwise be hindered from performance limitations of relational databases. Feng describes a company which uses search to provide analytics and drill-down capabilities on terabytes of government data and an investment bank which uses search to drive risk management applications on a global scale. White examines the impact of Facebook-style knowledge graph search, which is a game changer within the enterprise, calling it the beginning of a new era.

Logstash stands out in log management, due to its speed, ease of use, and integration with complementary search and reporting tools

It is important to note that UX Design for the Enterprise user is also key. Enterprise users need their applications to be faster, more integrated and simpler to use. UX Design for the Enterprise user should be crafted and designed with the same level of passion and focus as the consumer facing applications. 

At the end of the day, we were happy to have a fully baked solution that would automatically prompt customers to check-in to a local business on Foursquare using their Pebble Smartwatch or smartphone when their Capital One card transaction occurred.  We had a lot of fun interacting with the team over at Capital One Labs, all the while demonstrating OpenCrowd’s technical chops over the course of one hack day.

Web, design, and web design

"The biggest challenges of responsive design (which, let’s face it, now means web design) are not technology problems. Sure, we’ve got some wicked problems when dealing with non-flexible media like bitmap images, which fight against the flexible nature of the web, but thanks to the work of some very smart and talented people, even those kinds of issues are manageable. No, the biggest challenges, in my experience, are to do with people. Specifically, the way that people work together."