Dennis Chaney, Director of Global Product Management, LexisNexis. Presentation from ACTIVATE 2019, the Search and AI Conference hosted by Lucidworks. http://www.activate-conf.com
Marc Desormeau, Product Owner for Site Search and Product Data Optimization, & Harish Kulkarni, E-commerce Search Program Manager, Lenovo. Presentation from ACTIVATE 2019, the Search and AI Conference hosted by Lucidworks.
Lucidworks Fusion 5.0 is here! Fusion’s cloud-native architecture is optimized for deployment on Docker and Kubernetes and enables dynamic scaling of AI-powered search applications. Fusion 5.0 also introduces native Python support and integrates with the most popular machine learning frameworks, so you can seamlessly deliver powerful experiences to your customers and employees.
Join Lucidworks Chief Architect, Tim Potter and Director of Product Marketing, Alea Abed for a tour of what’s new and improved in the latest release of Fusion.
Presented by: Tim Potter, Chief Architect, Lucidworks and Alea Abed, Director of Product Marketing, Lucidworks
Google plans to sunset the Google Search Appliance (GSA) at the end of 2018, leaving organizations that depend on the GSA for enterprise search and for search functionality on their public-facing websites to find a new solution.
Combined with the increasing demand for cloud-based deployment models, this presents a unique challenge for those looking to replace GSA with like-for-like search functionality deployed in the cloud.
If you’re unsure about the future, our informative discussion covered life after GSA, including:
-Strategies for transitioning search solutions
-Best practices for search platform replacement
- Key components necessary for a successful cloud, hybrid, or on-premises solution
-Demonstration of Perficient's cloud-ready, search solution built combining Elasticsearch and the GSA framework
Netflix - Enabling a Culture of AnalyticsBlake Irvine
These are slides from a conference where I presented how we are enabling a culture of analytics at Netflix. I highlight aspects of our culture, our Data Science team organization, our BI tool evolution, and how we are making data accessible.
Building a Knowledge Graph at Zalando
Katariina Kari, Ontologist, Research Engineer, Zalando
When Katariina Kari's team set out to build a knowledge graph at Zalando, most people did not know how to make one or considered machine learning the better solution. Now Zalando uses ontologies to improve the customer's search and browsing experience.
Marc Desormeau, Product Owner for Site Search and Product Data Optimization, & Harish Kulkarni, E-commerce Search Program Manager, Lenovo. Presentation from ACTIVATE 2019, the Search and AI Conference hosted by Lucidworks.
Lucidworks Fusion 5.0 is here! Fusion’s cloud-native architecture is optimized for deployment on Docker and Kubernetes and enables dynamic scaling of AI-powered search applications. Fusion 5.0 also introduces native Python support and integrates with the most popular machine learning frameworks, so you can seamlessly deliver powerful experiences to your customers and employees.
Join Lucidworks Chief Architect, Tim Potter and Director of Product Marketing, Alea Abed for a tour of what’s new and improved in the latest release of Fusion.
Presented by: Tim Potter, Chief Architect, Lucidworks and Alea Abed, Director of Product Marketing, Lucidworks
Google plans to sunset the Google Search Appliance (GSA) at the end of 2018, leaving organizations that depend on the GSA for enterprise search and for search functionality on their public-facing websites to find a new solution.
Combined with the increasing demand for cloud-based deployment models, this presents a unique challenge for those looking to replace GSA with like-for-like search functionality deployed in the cloud.
If you’re unsure about the future, our informative discussion covered life after GSA, including:
-Strategies for transitioning search solutions
-Best practices for search platform replacement
- Key components necessary for a successful cloud, hybrid, or on-premises solution
-Demonstration of Perficient's cloud-ready, search solution built combining Elasticsearch and the GSA framework
Netflix - Enabling a Culture of AnalyticsBlake Irvine
These are slides from a conference where I presented how we are enabling a culture of analytics at Netflix. I highlight aspects of our culture, our Data Science team organization, our BI tool evolution, and how we are making data accessible.
Building a Knowledge Graph at Zalando
Katariina Kari, Ontologist, Research Engineer, Zalando
When Katariina Kari's team set out to build a knowledge graph at Zalando, most people did not know how to make one or considered machine learning the better solution. Now Zalando uses ontologies to improve the customer's search and browsing experience.
Digitalisation from the back office to the factory floorStephanie Locke
AI is a huge set of tools for making computers behave intelligently - Andrew Ng
70% of implementations fail to meet their stated aims. Following the holistic triple transformation approach taken by ‘lighthouses’ seems like a sensible approach to take. Industry 4.0: Reimagining manufacturing operations after COVID-19 McKinsey
Get started with AI:
- Start small with pilot projects to gain momentum
- Strong business case
- Build a team around this
- Provide broad training
- Longer-term develop an AI strategy that aligns with your business objectives
Using Apache Spark for Intelligent Services: Keynote at Spark Summit East by ...Spark Summit
Salesforce is developing Einstein which is an artificial intelligence (AI) capability built into the core of the Salesforce Platform. Einstein helps power the world’s smartest CRM to deliver advanced AI capabilities to sales, services, and marketing teams – helping them discover new insights, predict likely outcomes to power smarter decision making, recommend next steps, and automate workflows so users can focus on building meaningful relationships with every customer.
Salesforce is using Apache Spark (batch, streaming, GraphX and ML) to power the Einstein platform and services. In this keynote and demo, Alexis will highlight how Salesforce is building intelligent Services for Einstein using activity data by leveraging Spark and Databricks to scale data science and engineering.
Here we outlines Meltwater enterprise solutions for businesses. Learn how you can map your strategy using competitive intelligence, manage the flow of outside information, improve collaboration with external insights.
Location Analytics and Data Enrichment in Spectrum SpatialPrecisely
Location analytics and data enrichment help leaders make smarter decisions about everything from site selection, targeted marketing, and risk management to routing, resource allocation, and network optimization. Enriching data with contextual information and then analyzing that data from a location perspective reveals patterns and relationships not seen in charts and graphs.
Precisely’s rich portfolio of location, business, and consumer datasets provides endless possibilities for enriching existing data for deeper insights. When combined with Spectrum Spatial’s analytics tools, this enriched data can uncover geographic relationships, trends, and patterns while solving complex geospatial problems.
View this on-demand webinar to learn how to:
• Enrich locations with contextual data in Spectrum Spatial
• Analyze enriched data with Spectrum Spatial tools
• Solve common business problems with location analytics
DataScienceConnect Atlanta 2019 - Building Data & Analytics TeamsJuan Gorricho
Creating an Effective and Diverse Data and Analytics Team
Building data and analytics teams is a competitive endeavor yet one executive has found success in rounding out his data team by developing a conglomerate of data specialists. Once core functions are identified, learn how to equip your team for deeper skills and greater growth.
Dhruv Bansal, Infochimps CSO and Co-founder, discusses how Big Data tools are helping agencies build out repeatable revenue platforms, and what factors are important when setting down the path of Big Data.
Data comes from Twitter, Facebook, Omniture, Google, CRM systems, data warehouses, and much more. Tap into that data to enhance your analytics products and services.
Using data relationships to make connections between individual data records transforms the data you already have into something much more powerful. This webinar will explain how both young and established companies have adopted graph thinking - and how they’ve risen to dominate their fields.
Building data pipelines: from simple to more advanced - hands-on experience /...Sergii Khomenko
Data is becoming one of the main decision-makers in an organisation. The more data we have the more challenges we face every day. Every decision we make will have long-term implications. In the talk we will go through different approaches to the data pipelines: from a simple in-house built, with comparison to open source solutions based on Apache stack(Apache Kafka, Apache Samza, Spark) and finally hosted auto-scaling solutions based Amazon(S3, Kinesis, Lambda, EMR) or Google(Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery). The talk covers the main aspects of data collecting processes altogether with further implications for data processing, highlighting appropriate solutions and architectures for the particular use-cases.
Metrics All The Way: Data Driven DevOps (devconf.cz 2022).pdfHemaVeeradhi1
In this talk, we will investigate the opportunities of data driven DevOps, show what opportunities lie ahead of us when we engage in mining, analyzing and visualizing software engineering process data, but also highlight important factors that influence the success and adaptability of data-based improvement approaches.
Many firms have incorporated analytic solutions, but are struggling to apply reporting for advanced analysis. Pierre DeBois will review the various options in Google Analytics that will highlight influences on digital customer experience, such as identifying site or app traffic that reflect an intended consumer segment. The mini-workshop will also reveal how combining Google Analytics with an advanced tool, R programming, can highlight data trends—and thus customer experiences—that are potentially sustainable long term.
How Sapient Razorfish Cuts Its Campaign Deployment Times from Days to Minutes...Amazon Web Services
SapientRazorfish, a leader in creating digital experiences for companies and brands, needed a solution to deploy campaigns rapidly – often within a day – to meet the needs of demanding marketers and consumers. Rackspace created an automated ‘Single Campaign per Solution’ process on AWS, with a standard protocol around Elastic Beanstalk for the Web/Application tier. Today SapientRazorfish launches campaigns within 5 minutes, compared with 3 days previously. That improvement has led to SapientRazorfish having happier customers, delivering more timely, effective campaigns, and reducing costs, all with minimal change for developers.
Nuno Job - what's next for software - ANDdigital tech summitGreta Strolyte
Nuno Job will be giving a fast paced, passionate and thought-provoking talk around the future of software. He will expand on the theme of connection, showing why team values such as: integrity, persistence and respect are essential for modern software teams.
Nuno Job (YLD, MCS) is the CEO of YLD, a top tier technology consultancy that helps London's top CIOs to respond to the Innovator's Dilemma. Previously he was Chief Commercial at Nodejitsu where he was responsible for the world's largest Node.js cloud and provided extensive contributions to the success of Node.js as an enterprise-ready technology. Nuno's formative work years were spent in the U.S. at IBM Research and MarkLogic. He is a proud Sequoia alumni and a big advocate and enabler of open-source software. Currently, he lives in London were he leads the YLD team and helps great FTSE100 transform into the best technology enterprises.
Tweet: @dscape
Digitalisation from the back office to the factory floorStephanie Locke
AI is a huge set of tools for making computers behave intelligently - Andrew Ng
70% of implementations fail to meet their stated aims. Following the holistic triple transformation approach taken by ‘lighthouses’ seems like a sensible approach to take. Industry 4.0: Reimagining manufacturing operations after COVID-19 McKinsey
Get started with AI:
- Start small with pilot projects to gain momentum
- Strong business case
- Build a team around this
- Provide broad training
- Longer-term develop an AI strategy that aligns with your business objectives
Using Apache Spark for Intelligent Services: Keynote at Spark Summit East by ...Spark Summit
Salesforce is developing Einstein which is an artificial intelligence (AI) capability built into the core of the Salesforce Platform. Einstein helps power the world’s smartest CRM to deliver advanced AI capabilities to sales, services, and marketing teams – helping them discover new insights, predict likely outcomes to power smarter decision making, recommend next steps, and automate workflows so users can focus on building meaningful relationships with every customer.
Salesforce is using Apache Spark (batch, streaming, GraphX and ML) to power the Einstein platform and services. In this keynote and demo, Alexis will highlight how Salesforce is building intelligent Services for Einstein using activity data by leveraging Spark and Databricks to scale data science and engineering.
Here we outlines Meltwater enterprise solutions for businesses. Learn how you can map your strategy using competitive intelligence, manage the flow of outside information, improve collaboration with external insights.
Location Analytics and Data Enrichment in Spectrum SpatialPrecisely
Location analytics and data enrichment help leaders make smarter decisions about everything from site selection, targeted marketing, and risk management to routing, resource allocation, and network optimization. Enriching data with contextual information and then analyzing that data from a location perspective reveals patterns and relationships not seen in charts and graphs.
Precisely’s rich portfolio of location, business, and consumer datasets provides endless possibilities for enriching existing data for deeper insights. When combined with Spectrum Spatial’s analytics tools, this enriched data can uncover geographic relationships, trends, and patterns while solving complex geospatial problems.
View this on-demand webinar to learn how to:
• Enrich locations with contextual data in Spectrum Spatial
• Analyze enriched data with Spectrum Spatial tools
• Solve common business problems with location analytics
DataScienceConnect Atlanta 2019 - Building Data & Analytics TeamsJuan Gorricho
Creating an Effective and Diverse Data and Analytics Team
Building data and analytics teams is a competitive endeavor yet one executive has found success in rounding out his data team by developing a conglomerate of data specialists. Once core functions are identified, learn how to equip your team for deeper skills and greater growth.
Dhruv Bansal, Infochimps CSO and Co-founder, discusses how Big Data tools are helping agencies build out repeatable revenue platforms, and what factors are important when setting down the path of Big Data.
Data comes from Twitter, Facebook, Omniture, Google, CRM systems, data warehouses, and much more. Tap into that data to enhance your analytics products and services.
Using data relationships to make connections between individual data records transforms the data you already have into something much more powerful. This webinar will explain how both young and established companies have adopted graph thinking - and how they’ve risen to dominate their fields.
Building data pipelines: from simple to more advanced - hands-on experience /...Sergii Khomenko
Data is becoming one of the main decision-makers in an organisation. The more data we have the more challenges we face every day. Every decision we make will have long-term implications. In the talk we will go through different approaches to the data pipelines: from a simple in-house built, with comparison to open source solutions based on Apache stack(Apache Kafka, Apache Samza, Spark) and finally hosted auto-scaling solutions based Amazon(S3, Kinesis, Lambda, EMR) or Google(Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery). The talk covers the main aspects of data collecting processes altogether with further implications for data processing, highlighting appropriate solutions and architectures for the particular use-cases.
Metrics All The Way: Data Driven DevOps (devconf.cz 2022).pdfHemaVeeradhi1
In this talk, we will investigate the opportunities of data driven DevOps, show what opportunities lie ahead of us when we engage in mining, analyzing and visualizing software engineering process data, but also highlight important factors that influence the success and adaptability of data-based improvement approaches.
Many firms have incorporated analytic solutions, but are struggling to apply reporting for advanced analysis. Pierre DeBois will review the various options in Google Analytics that will highlight influences on digital customer experience, such as identifying site or app traffic that reflect an intended consumer segment. The mini-workshop will also reveal how combining Google Analytics with an advanced tool, R programming, can highlight data trends—and thus customer experiences—that are potentially sustainable long term.
How Sapient Razorfish Cuts Its Campaign Deployment Times from Days to Minutes...Amazon Web Services
SapientRazorfish, a leader in creating digital experiences for companies and brands, needed a solution to deploy campaigns rapidly – often within a day – to meet the needs of demanding marketers and consumers. Rackspace created an automated ‘Single Campaign per Solution’ process on AWS, with a standard protocol around Elastic Beanstalk for the Web/Application tier. Today SapientRazorfish launches campaigns within 5 minutes, compared with 3 days previously. That improvement has led to SapientRazorfish having happier customers, delivering more timely, effective campaigns, and reducing costs, all with minimal change for developers.
Nuno Job - what's next for software - ANDdigital tech summitGreta Strolyte
Nuno Job will be giving a fast paced, passionate and thought-provoking talk around the future of software. He will expand on the theme of connection, showing why team values such as: integrity, persistence and respect are essential for modern software teams.
Nuno Job (YLD, MCS) is the CEO of YLD, a top tier technology consultancy that helps London's top CIOs to respond to the Innovator's Dilemma. Previously he was Chief Commercial at Nodejitsu where he was responsible for the world's largest Node.js cloud and provided extensive contributions to the success of Node.js as an enterprise-ready technology. Nuno's formative work years were spent in the U.S. at IBM Research and MarkLogic. He is a proud Sequoia alumni and a big advocate and enabler of open-source software. Currently, he lives in London were he leads the YLD team and helps great FTSE100 transform into the best technology enterprises.
Tweet: @dscape
Geekcamp Indonesia 2017 : Agile Product ManagementMichael Ong
Agile Product Management
About This Talk (25 min)
Great products rarely happen by luck — they involve careful planning, consideration, and management. In this talk, you'll learn how to put together a product or project roadmap that inspires by studying and applying an objective and collaborative prioritization method that balances both value and effort, helping stakeholders focus on what's important and come to consensus.
Outline/structure for the Session
Product Ownership
Product Vision to Roadmap
Case study
Takeaways
Set product or project goals based on company strategic goals
Learn the art of shuttle diplomacy as a way to get buy-in on your priorities
Target Audience
Product Heads, Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, Designers, Team Leads
About the Speaker
Michael ONG is Coach and Founder Mentor @ The Collab Folks, an Agile, Product Management & User Experience coaching company started in Singapore. A relatively young partnership with Ruth HO and Lena QUEK, it brings together Michael’s 16 years consulting in the tech space, delivering a spectrum of projects for Mobile Payments, Logistics Tracking & Surveying, Cleaning Inspection, Merchant Monitoring, Online E-Commerce and Real Estate Portals.
Michael has worked with startups to MNCs in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Australia. He is passionate about helping founders chart a path towards growth and currently provides startup mentoring and team coaching in the topics of Agility, User Experience and Product Management.
Michael also speaks on the topic of Agility, User Experience and Product Management. He is involved with local community Agile Singapore and is also a co-organiser with UX Singapore and Product Works, the latter of which aims to bridge product teams in Asia.
http://thecollabfolks.com/partner-profiles/michael-ong/
NYAI #13: "AI and Business Transformation" - Josh SuttonMaryam Farooq
"AI & Business Transformation" - Josh Sutton (Global Head of Data & AI, Publicis.Sapient)
Presented at NYAI #13 - AI & Enterprise on Tues, 6/20/17 at Rise New York.
Presented by New York Artificial Intelligence (NYAI).
Vibes Communications is a fusion of technology and marketing working in the space of web design and development, digital marketing, mobile app design and development, graphic designing and consulting.
Team of young professional having experience of working on crucial government projects and other challenging assignments. Designing product POC's, drafting RFP documents for tenders are some of the extra skill sets of Vibes.
Vibes believes in crystal clear relationship with clients and stands with client every time to support them. RELATIONSHIP and BONDING IS OUR STRENGTH.
Best Practices For Getting The Most Out Of Your Intranet & Digital Workplace ...Richard Harbridge
What’s the best way to improve a successful Intranet or Digital Workplace? With intelligence, analytics and targeted insight!
Modernizing your Intranets and Digital Workplaces with the latest version of SharePoint or Office 365 is necessary but not sufficient. The question for many organizations is how we get even more value out of the Intranet after it has been upgraded, migrated and modernized. To achieve greater levels of success you need greater insight and to understand the importance of engagement, analytics and how these can improve employee experiences and content within the organization.
Join Richard Harbridge, Office 365 MVP & Intranet expert, as he shares engagement & analytics real world examples and best practices. These practices have helped successful customers get more from Office 365, SharePoint, their Intranets and their Digital Workplaces.
Cities and companies around the world try to emulate the quality and pace of innovation that happens within Silicon Valley. Our vision is to bring the culture of innovation that Silicon Valley fosters to Bangalore, India. Silicon Valley embraces failure, so that’s a value we promote at CognitiveClouds. We teach our developers to fail quickly, learn from their mistakes and try a better approach. We also learn from other leading organizations within Silicon Vally. Through our partnership with Google, we’ve learned how to conduct design sprints, and we now use design sprints as part of our standard development process. We think all our engineers should work smarter instead of harder, so we invest in tools and processes that leading innovators use and follow. We believe an average developer with great tools and processes is more efficient and effective than a rockstar developer with no tools.
Getting UX Buy-in in an Enterprise Landscaperyngrn
Large organizations often have a heavy focus on delivering features and meeting deadlines and often UX teams don't have a 'seat at the table'. This talk will review the benefits of UX for large organizations, review different strategies for getting buy-in from those in your org, and share ideas for effectively pitching the concept of UX being involved throughout the planning / research / design / build / release lifecycle.
Talk given at UX+Dev Summit 2018
Strategy & Success: Practical Tools & Techniques For The Strategist, Architec...Richard Harbridge
People are complex. Office 365 is complex. Add the two together and you get some of the most challenging, difficult, and stressful situations, especially if you are responsible for facilitating shared understanding between them.
Join Richard Harbridge to learn about actionable techniques to improve, simplify and amplify your leadership, business analysis and information architecture efforts with Office 365. Walk away with improved confidence when dealing with business and non-technical related challenges of Office 365, and be familiarized with effective tools and techniques that make Office 365 implementations more successful.
How Big Data can drive innovative technologies and new approaches in large or...Nick Brown
Presentation by Nick Brown at Big Data in Paris on 8th March 2016. Overview about how we have developed a big data engine around search and unstructured content (with Sinequa) and how this has lead to innovating with mobility, user experience and digital health initiatives. Also provides access to our PitchIT open innovation site.
Similar to Solr Migration at Scale: A LexisNexis Journey (20)
Search is the Tip of the Spear for Your B2B eCommerce StrategyLucidworks
With ecommerce experiencing explosive growth, it seems intuitive that the B2B segment of that ecosystem is mirroring the same trajectory. That said, B2B has very different needs when it comes to transacting with the same style of experiences that we see in B2C. For instance, B2B ecommerce is about precision findability, whereas B2C customers can convert at higher rates when they’re just browsing online. In order for the B2B buying experience to be successful, search needs to be tuned to meet the unique needs of the segment.
In this webinar with Forrester senior analyst Joe Cicman, you’ll learn:
-Which verticals in B2B will drive the most growth, and how machine-learning powered personalization tactics can be deployed to support those specific verticals
-Why an omnichannel selling approach must be deployed in order to see success in B2B
-How deploying content search capabilities will support a longer sales cycle at scale
-What the next steps are to support a robust B2B commerce strategy supported by new technology
Speakers
Joe Cicman, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Jenny Gomez, VP of Marketing, Lucidworks
Customer loyalty starts with quickly responding to your customer’s needs. When it comes to resolving open support cases, time is of the essence. Time spent searching for answers adds up and creates inefficiencies in resolving cases at scale. Relevant answers need to be a few clicks away and easily accessible for agents directly from their service console.
We will explore how Lucidworks’ Agent Insights application automatically connects agents with the correct answers and resources. You’ll learn how to:
-Configure a proactive widget in an agent’s case view page to access resources across third-party systems (such as Sharepoint, Confluence, JIRA, Zendesk, and ServiceNow).
-Easily set up query pipelines to autonomously route assets and resources that are relevant to the case-at-hand—directly to the right agent.
-Identify subject matter experts within your support data and access tribal knowledge with lightning-fast speed.
How Crate & Barrel Connects Shoppers with Relevant ProductsLucidworks
Lunch and Learn during Retail TouchPoints #RIC21 virtual event.
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Crate & Barrel’s previous search solution couldn’t provide its shoppers with an online search and browse experience consistent with the customer-centric Crate & Barrel brand. Meanwhile, Crate & Barrel merchandisers spent the bulk of their time manually creating and maintaining search rules. The search experience impacted customer retention, loyalty, and revenue growth.
Join this lunch & learn for an interactive chat on how Crate & Barrel partnered with Lucidworks to:
-Improve search and browse by modernizing the technology stack with ML-based personalization and merchandising solutions
-Enhance the experience for both shoppers and merchandisers
-Explore signals to transform the omnichannel shopping experience
Questions? Visit https://lucidworks.com/contact/
Learn how to guide customers to relevant products using eCommerce search, hyper-personalisation, and recommendations in our ‘Best-In-Class Retail Product Discovery’ webinar.
Nowadays, shoppers want their online experience to be engaging, inspirational and fulfilling. They want to find what they’re looking for quickly and easily. If the sought after item isn’t available, they want the next best product or content surfaced to them. They want a website to understand their goals as though they were talking to a sales assistant in person, in-store.
In this webinar, we explore IMRG industry data insights and a best-in-class example of retail product discovery. You’ll learn:
- How AI can drive increased revenue through hyper-personalised experiences
- How user intent can be easily understood and results displayed immediately
- How merchandisers can be empowered to curate results and product placement – all without having to rely on IT.
Presented by:
Dave Hawkins, Principal Sales Engineer - Lucidworks
Matthew Walsh, Director of Data & Retail - IMRG
Connected Experiences Are Personalized ExperiencesLucidworks
Many companies claim personalization and omnichannel capabilities are top priorities. Few are able to deliver on those experiences.
For a recent Lucidworks-commissioned study, Forrester Consulting surveyed 350+ global business decision-makers to see what gets in the way of achieving these goals. They discovered that inefficient technology, lack of behavioral insights, and failure to tie initiatives to enterprise-wide goals are some of the most frequent blockers to personalization success.
Join guest speaker, Forrester VP and Principal Analyst, Brendan Witcher, and Lucidworks CEO, Will Hayes, to hear the results of the Forrester Consulting study, how to avoid “digital blindness,” and how to apply VoC data in real-time to delight customers with personalized experiences connected across every touchpoint.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- Why companies who utilize real-time customer signals report more effective personalization
- How to connect employees and customers in a shared experience through search and browse
- How Lucidworks clients Lenovo, Morgan Stanley and Red Hat fast-tracked improvements in conversion, engagement and customer satisfaction
Featuring
- Will Hayes, CEO, Lucidworks
- Brendan Witcher, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Intelligent Insight Driven Policing with MC+A, Toronto Police Service and Luc...Lucidworks
Intelligent Policing. Leveraging Data to more effectively Serve Communities.
Policing in the next decade is anticipated to be very different from historical methods. More data driven, more focused on the intricacies of communities they serve and more open and collaborative to make informed recommendations a reality. Whether its social populations, NIBRS or organization improvement that’s the driver, the IT requirement is largely the same. Provide 360 access to large volumes of siloed data to gain a full 360 understanding of existing connections and patterns for improved insight and recommendation.
Join us for a round table discussion of how the Toronto Police Service is better serving their community through deploying a unified intelligent data platform.
Data innovation improves officers' engagement with existing data and streamlines investigation workflows by enhancing collaboration. This improved visibility into existing police data allows for a more intelligent and responsive police force.
In this webinar, we'll cover:
-The technology needs of an intelligent police force.
-How a Global Search improves an officer's interaction with existing data.
Featuring:
-Simon Taylor, VP, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Lucidworks
-Michael Cizmar, Managing Director, MC+A
-Ian Williams, Manager of Analytics & Innovation, Toronto Police Service
[Webinar] Intelligent Policing. Leveraging Data to more effectively Serve Com...Lucidworks
Policing in the next decade is anticipated to be very different from historical methods. More data driven, more focused on the intricacies of communities they serve and more open and collaborative to make informed recommendations a reality. Whether its social populations, NIBRS or organization improvement that’s the driver, the IT requirement is largely the same. Provide 360 access to large volumes of siloed data to gain a full 360 understanding of existing connections and patterns for improved insight and recommendation.
Join us for a round table discussion of how the Toronto Police Service is better serving their community through deploying a unified intelligent data platform.
Data innovation improves officers' engagement with existing data and streamlines investigation workflows by enhancing collaboration. This improved visibility into existing police data allows for a more intelligent and responsive police force.
In this webinar, we'll cover:
The technology needs of an intelligent police force.
How a Global Search improves an officer's interaction with existing data.
Featuring
-Simon Taylor, VP, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Lucidworks
-Michael Cizmar, Managing Director, MC+A
-Ian Williams, Manager of Analytics & Innovation, Toronto Police Service
Accelerate The Path To Purchase With Product Discovery at Retail Innovation C...Lucidworks
Wish your conversion rates were higher? Can’t figure out how to efficiently and effectively serve all the visitors on your site? Embarrassed by the quality of your product discovery experience? The bar is high and the influx of online shopping over recent months has reminded us that the opportunities are real. We’re all deep in holiday prep, but let’s take a few minutes to think about January 2021 and beyond. How can we position ourselves for success with our customers and against our competition?
Grab your lunch and let’s dive into three strategies that need to be part of your 2021 roadmap. You don’t need an army to get there. But you do need to take action and capitalize on the shoppers abandoning the product discovery journey on your site.
In this session, attendees will find out how to:
-Take control of merchandising at scale;
-Implement hands-free search relevancy; and
-Address personalization challenges.
AI-Powered Linguistics and Search with Fusion and RosetteLucidworks
For a personalized search experience, search curation requires robust text interpretation, data enrichment, relevancy tuning and recommendations. In order to achieve this, language and entity identification are crucial.
For teams working on search applications, advanced language packages allow them to achieve greater recall without sacrificing precision.
Join us for a guided tour of our new Advanced Linguistics packages, available in Fusion, thanks to the technology partnership between Lucidworks and Basistech.
We’ll explore the application of language identification and entity extraction in the context of search, along with practical examples of personalizing search and enhancing entity extraction.
In this webinar, we’ll cover:
-How Fusion uses the Rosette Basic Linguistics and Entity Extraction packages
-Tips for improving language identification and treatment as well as data enrichment for personalization
-Speech2 demo modeling Active Recommendation
-Use Rosette’s packages with Fusion Pipelines to build custom entities for specific domain use cases
Featuring:
-Radu Miclaus, Director of Product, AI and Cloud, Lucidworks, Lucidworks
-Robert Lucarini, Senior Software Engineer, Lucidworks
-Nick Belanger, Solutions Engineer, Basis Technology
The Service Industry After COVID-19: The Soul of Service in a Virtual MomentLucidworks
Before COVID-19, almost 80% of the US workforce worked service in jobs that involve in-person interaction with strangers. Now, leaders of service organizations must reshape their offerings during the pandemic and prepare for whatever the new normal turns out to be. Our three panelists will share ideas for adapting their service businesses, now that closer-than-six-feet isn’t an option.
Join Lucidworks as we talk shop with 3 service business leaders, covering:
-Common impacts of the pandemic on service businesses (and what to do about them),
-How service teams can maintain a human touch across virtual channels, and
-Plans for the future, before and after the pandemic subsides.
Featuring
-Sara Nathan, President & CEO, AMIGOS
-Anthony Carruesco, Founder, AC Fly Fishing
-sara bradley, chef and proprietor, freight house
-Justin Sears, VP Product Marketing, Lucidworks
Webinar: Smart answers for employee and customer support after covid 19 - EuropeLucidworks
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies to support far more customers and employees through digital channels than ever before. Many are turning to chatbots to help meet increasing demand, but traditional rules-based approaches can’t keep up. Our new Smart Answers add-on to Lucidworks Fusion makes existing chatbots and virtual assistants more intelligent and more valuable to the people you serve.
Smart Answers for Employee and Customer Support After COVID-19Lucidworks
Watch our on-demand webinar showcasing Smart Answers on Lucidworks Fusion. This technology makes existing chatbots and virtual assistants more intelligent and more valuable to the people you serve.
In this webinar, we’ll cover off:
-How search and deep learning extend conversational frameworks for improved experiences
-How Smart Answers improves customer care, call deflection, and employee self-service
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Solr Migration at Scale: A LexisNexis Journey
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Solr Migration at Scale: A LexisNexis Journey
Dennis is the Director of Global Product Management at LexisNexis. He
is based in Raleigh North Carolina and is responsible for the migration of
Lexis Advance to a new search platform. Dennis has been modernizing
enterprise technology systems for over 25 years, with leadership
experience across architecture, design, engineering development. His
repeated success in delivering enterprise-wide systems using advanced
and emerging technology solutions will position LexisNexis for success
on their search migration journey.
4. Agenda
• Rule of Law
• Business Value of Search
• Scaling Search
• An Integrated Effort
• Innovation
5. A DVA NCING THE R ULE
OF LAW AROUND THE
WO R LD
6. ACCESS A VAST RANGE
O F CO NTE NT
60,000 trusted legal, news,
business and public records
sources.
81 Billion documents
7. R E V EA L THE MEA NING
A ND AC T O N IT
Smart content combined with
advanced technology helps
you dig deeper, spot hidden
connections and analyze
better so you make sound,
data-driven decisions.
8. COUNT ON DE E P LEGAL
E X PE RTIS E
Shepard’s® editors and
respected, practicing
attorneys enrich Lexis
Advance content with
analysis and in-depth
commentary to further
enhance your
understanding.
9. CO NDUC T R ES EA RCH
YO UR WAY
Enter keywords, use a
Boolean approach or
choose advanced, form-
based searching. Flexible,
cutting-edge technology
powers your online legal
research.
10. O N LIN E S EA RCH
A DVA N CES A R E K E Y TO
THE PR AC TICE O F LAW
Legal Research is now
synonymous with online
search.
12. Vision, Goals, and Approach
G OA L S
Build a best-in-class search experience by migrating
Lexis Advance search to an open source engine.
Deliver dramatically faster search performance for
Lexis Advance products.
Enable a much faster path to delivery of
search improvements.
A PPROACH
Move to a modern open source search engine that
enables faster innovation, is cloud-friendly, and has
lower operational cost.
Implement architecture that ensures search response
time under a second and is noticeably faster than
competition.
Continuous deployment with higher quality and
frequency, enable faster A/B testing experimentation
and automation.
Increase search performance and release frequency to quickly and continuously provide value to New
LexisNexis customers while providing development teams with an easily configurable search platform
meeting market and product needs.
15. Cost of Ingestion Content
Shift from Lambda to Spark
Lambda: Compute Service runs your code in
response to events and messages. Underlying
compute resources, scalability, and security managed
by AWS.
Estimated Avg Docs ingested Per Dollar ($)
Lambda : 150K docs / $1 >> Spark : 750K docks / $1
$$$$$$$ >> $
Spark: Fast and general processing engine
compatible with S3,Hadoop. Designed to
process both batch processing and streaming.
17. Consumers and Partners
Search
Platform
Partner Teams
RESULTS
GENERATION
QUERY
ENGINE
CONTENT
INGESTION
DELIVERY
INFRASTRUCTURE
NARS V3
(JSON
)
gNS RADIX
Data Lake
Platform
Engineering
HRT
STF
Consumers
18. SRP CI/CD
Pipeline
Search RE Platform
API
Content
Pipeline
Platform Setup
SOLR Cloud
API Pipeline
Content
Ingestion
Pipeline
E2E Functional Test
Open STFxPerformance
19. INNOVATION WITH
S EA RCH
New Relevance Algorithms
Machine Learning & AI
Data and Analytics
20. Measuring Relevance for News
Search Test Framework (GUI and API)
Jaccard Index + doc count
RBO + DCG
Rankin
g
Recall
Precision
22. BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER
A R O U N D T H E G L O B E , L E X I S N E X I S ® E M P L O Y E E S A R E C O N N E C T E D B Y T H E D E S I R E T O
S H A P E A B E T T E R W O R L D W H E R E T H E R U L E O F L AW I N C R E A S E S P E A C E , P R O S P E R I T Y
A N D J U S T I C E . L E X I S N E X I S TA K E S C O M M U N I T Y A C T I O N T O M A K E T H E L AW M O R E
A C C E S S I B L E . A N D L E X I S N E X I S S O L U T I O N S G I V E P R O F E S S I O N A L S M O R E I N S I G H T. W E
H E L P D O C T O R S S AV E L I V E S , I N V E S T I G AT O R S F I N D L O S T C H I L D R E N , L AW Y E R S F I N D
J U S T I C E F O R T H E I R C L I E N T S A N D S T U D E N T S G A I N D E E P E R K N O W L E D G E . A C A R E E R
W I T H L E X I S N E X I S C A N H E L P Y O U M A K E A D I F F E R E N C E — I N T H E C O M M U N I T Y A N D AT
W O R K .
https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/about-us/careers.page
I hope everyone is having a good time. A special thanks to Lucidworks for bringing us all together for Activate 2019.
Just incase you haven’t found all the ways to stay connected here is just a quick reminder.
If you’re interested I have a little about my background. But in general I have been working in technology, architecture, and product for over 25 years and still love every minute of it.
Today I will be explaining a little bit about LexisNexis and then jumping into the different aspects of search that we have to deal with.
The Rule of Law
Our people and core business operations are helping to advance the rule of law around the world. We accomplish this by operating in over 130 countries around the globe.
Search is at the core of almost every product offerings. The content that underpins those searches come from 60,000 trusted legal, news, business, and public records sources and equates to approximately 81 billion documents. As we progress our migration journey we started with our News sources which consists of approximately 2 billion articles and growing very rapidly every year.
As we migrate the underlying engine we have an opportunity to unwind years of development to determine what features are needed to aide our customers in the future. Observability and logging are fundamentals are at the core of every development activity.
Count on deep legal expertise
Shepard’s® editors and respected, practicing attorneys enrich Lexis Advance content with analysis and in-depth commentary to further enhance your understanding. Providing rapid access to this data is part of the key to providing relevant and on-point search results. Migrating to an Solr we expect to be able to leverage and expand upon our machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities that are continue to emerge.
Such a simple statement “Conduct research your way” as many in the room will attest means extreme complexity under the covers.
The team has successfully migrating the Boolean syntax and is now tackling the complex queries that our customers are using. To provide early problem detection these queries are tested with every build.
Enter keywords, use a Boolean approach or choose advanced, form-based searching. Flexible, cutting-edge technology powers your online legal research.
At the end of the day our customers are expecting, actually demanding, more from search. Their search experiences continue to expand in area outside of the legal space from areas such as online sales, simple browser searches(Google), and even social media. But their expectation are that we continue to provide results are relevant and on point for the work they are doing.
Even though the law may move slowly the legal industry is expecting faster performance, improved relevance, and demands to integrate their usage data to help them navigate the complex mazes that make up the legal systems around the world.
Scaling Search is more than just the ability to have a fast search engine. It requires the right placement of functionality in the architectural stack. To meet our overall objectives we focused on using data to determine what our customers behaviors were. Looking at the types of search, the complexity of those searches and performance metrics associated with there activities. One focal area is around the features and functionality that the LexisNexis customer base uses. In many areas we found that we could get close but as
As part of our effort to experiment and move forward from our learnings we established focal areas. Such as Infrastructure and Content Ingestion and Core Search Functionality.
To meet the needs of our customers and the competitive nature of content we set forth to provide a better search experience for our customs.
We established a vision and high level goals in which we were trying to achieve. To address these goals we established a set of overarching approaches to help guide us along the way.
Everyone who has participated in a migration effort knows of the Parity Challenge. LexisNexis is no different. What we have done is use data to drive decisions. By analyzing production data we were able to determine the query used by our customers and focus development appropriately.
The shear volume of data that is need to support our customers is challenging. Being able to index that data in a timely fashion has always been a challenge. As part of our efforts we experimented with a variety of technical options to determine their limitations and our implementation challenges. In the end we found that for bulk load we found that Spark would scaled to levels that we targeted which is approximately 2 billion documents a day.
The team continues to evolve the platform and develop new features for the consumers of the platform. Throughout the journey the team is focused not only on functional testing but performance, relevance, cost, and consumer experience. Because the re-platforming team cannot be experts in all of these areas we have integrated with partner teams to leverage their tools and expertise.
We are partnering with the platform consumers to ensure that they are able to meet the external customers needs. The team has partnered with the Search Test Framework team to integrate STF as part of the CI/CD pathway.
One of the major reason for migrating to Solr is to provide us with the ability to create new and innovative ways to help our customers but along the way we are looking at our own tools and practices to ensure that we have the best chance of meeting those innovation challenges of the future.
One such area is the use of the Search Test Framework that LexisNexis developed to help evaluate algorithms for improving relevancy. The replatforming team has pushed beyond its original intent and is now working with them to integrate this as part of the development process. This provides real time feedback and detects problems with functionality changes that inadvertently effected relevance.
Another innovative way that the team is approaching development and the use of data is through the managed stack. This allows a developer to standup a production like instance load the data and test sets required for their algorithm development and immediately see how their changes compare to the production system.
Thanks to all of our service and tool providers without you we would not be able to accomplish everything we set out to.