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    Episode 3 - Massood Zarrabian - Advancements in Enterprise Search

    Bringing a Google-like Search Experience to the Enterprise

    Guest: Massood Zarrabian, CEO, BA Insight

     

     

    In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Massood Zarrabian, CEO at BA Insight about how enterprise search is evolving - getting better (bringing greater value) and costing less.

    Congratulations to BA Insight on receiving the KMWorld 2021 Readers' Choice Award - Best Enterprise Search!

    Highlights:
    1:15 Massood's road from a Civil Engineering degree from MIT to BA Insight.
    5:00 Massood's philosophy on growing teams and companies - and how theater has influenced him
    8:25 Can enterprise search be like Google?
    13:30 Unstructured vs structured data
    17:45 The maturing of enterprise search
    26:00 The last mile in enterprise search
    32:00 Building, maintaining, training your Index
    39:00 Bots and users don't care where the content lives
    42:30 Role of an information reference architecture
    49:00 Role of automation for tagging
    52:30 The future of enterprise search

    Contact Massood:
    mzarrabian@bainsight.com

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/massoodzarrabian/


    Links:
    BA Insight website
    The AI Powered Enterprise

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