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		<title>Massive Performance Gains and Cost Savings using Hadoop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Jewitt, our VP of Big Data, challenged me to impress him with an example of the power of emerging technology in solving real world Big Data problems.  I needed a large dataset with a complicated processing requirement to do that and decided to extract witness information from Senate and House hearings for the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content Management &#8212; There&#8217;s an app for that!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been working in Content Management for over 10 years and been involved in over 30 content management projects.  Sadly, I have never found a customer that was truly happy with their Content Management System (CMS).  Most customers figure out how to work with the system they have and adjust their processes accordingly.  Content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is MarkLogic a Search Engine?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am frequently asked if MarkLogic is really a search engine.  It is easy to debate whether MarkLogic fits the classic definition of a search engine.  In my opinion, this is the wrong question.  The question you should be asking is &#8220;Does MarkLogic enable great search experiences?&#8221;  The answer is undeniably Yes. MarkLogic comes with all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Semantics of Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been taken by the term Information Management. As with so many phrases in the computer lexicon, this is one that has become both very specialized &#8211; focusing primarily upon the various and sundry database applications that a given organization uses &#8211; and rather vague. Vendors seize upon this vagueness by claiming that their [...]]]></description>
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