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The Search & Information Access Report looks at... Google Appliance

"Even Google's marketing won't go so far as to call their implementation "enterprise-class security," instead favoring to highlight single sign-on (which the Appliance supports quite well). Document-level security is handled late-binding - the result sets are filtered for hits a searcher is allowed to see, which requires the system to fire off separate requests for each hit to see if it may be displayed. This has only one advantage - the authorization will be up-to-date to the second - but, certainly in Google's implementation, several drawbacks. "

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Whole Lotta Shaking Going On at Visual Sciences

13-Jul-2007   --  

If you're a Visual Sciences customer (i.e., HBX and Visual Site analytics, Publish CMS, or the former Atomz Search), you'd have to be a bit concerned by yesterday's report that the company is actively considering "unsolicited inquiries" to be acquired.

Yesterday's press release indicated the company had hired Goldman Sachs as a financial adviser to assess potential deals, followed by the assurance from CEO Jim MacIntyre, "Meanwhile, we will continue to focus on building our business." This came attached to a Q2 financial report in which the company's earnings failed to meet its earlier guidance, despite top-line revenue growth. The company's recent emphasis on analytics and lingering WebSideStory branding on some older products leaves open the possibility that it may sell off only some of its products (but here I'm just speculating).

Thinking about purchasing a Visual Sciences product or renewing a contract? If it was me, I'd be asking hard questions. How about you? Shoot me an email at philkemelor@cmswatch.com.

- Submitted by: Phil Kemelor, Contributing Analyst

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