New Gartner Magic Quadrant for Information Access

I just received the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Information Access 2007 courtesy of Fast, and you can download a copy of the report from their website. The quadrant includes several new players, but also a lot of changes.

Search is not just search anymore, and Gartner has in recent years been using the term “Information access technology” to include and expand on what they previously called "enterprise search technology”. They use the term information access to include a collection of technologies to help you organize and find information, such as;

• enterprise search;
• content classification, categorization and clustering;
• fact and entity extraction;
• taxonomy creation and management;
• information presentation (for example visualization).

AIIM prefer to use the term "Information Organization & Access" (IOA) instead of just Information Access since many of the above technologies help you organize information for better access. You can learn more about this in our new IOA training program.

By Atle Skjekkeland.