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By Roger Gillette on Jun. 23, 2009

I don't think there is a real need ONLY for enterprise bookmarking. This will just be a small component of any enterprise's overall collaborative strategy which is currently being addressed by companies like Mindtouch, Social Cast, and others. You could also just look at other FOSS CMSs like Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, etc. and all of them have a bookmarking module/feature.

By Kumar Patel on Jun. 24, 2009

We have looked at several of these solutions and the challenge we have is that we couldn't find a centralized search platform for all data.

The data exists in multiple formats. Clinical reports, medical images of various types, structured records, etc. located in different divisions (some acquired through acquisition) and at partner sites.

Joomla, Mambo, Drupal and so many others are for documents and web pages only (we have documentum) and did not provide a holistic solution for all the data types we have to deal with.

All in one collaborative platforms like Jive and Connectbeam allow bookmarking of webpages only and not the broad range of information that we needed (Mindtouch is basically just a wiki). And all of these tools had limited tag fields for users to define and describe the remote data so we don't have to click through everything to find out what it is.

We use data hub and data link for federated search, we have numerous warehouses mostly with Informatica for ETL (and we have looked at Jitterbit). The simple reality is that we have enough silo search solutions and were trying to avoid that. And none of these database solutions were at all collaborative. Getting partners involved in a structured metadata search effort was going to be a big bloated project.

Enterprise bookmarking with platforms like Jumper seems to offer a great solution to universal search. I was wondering if any had similar challenges??

By Rashid Abbasher on Jun. 29, 2009

this looks interesting...

where do i find Jumper?

By Kumar Patel on Jul. 29, 2009

you can find it on Sourceforge

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jumper

or on the web

http://www.jumpernetworks.com

it is open source and free to download. the install was pretty easy. we used the xampp module for apache/php/mysql