Blog - Enterprise Search
Fishbowl Solutions is Mindbreeze Integration Partner of the Year 2021
Fishbowl Solutions named Mindbreeze Integration Partner of the Year for the second year in a row.MINNEAPOLIS and CHICAGO – December 14, 2021 – Mindbreeze, a leading provider of appliances and cloud services in the field of information insight, today announced the...
Mindbreeze Snapshot Makes Migrations Simple
The migration process from one Mindbreeze appliance to another can be a daunting task especially if you have a lot of indices, data sources, and Talend Jobs to copy over. This usually means exporting the configuration of one object at a time and then importing it into...
Know When Mindbreeze Search is Down by Configuring Monitoring Alerts with app.telemetry
Client Services are the API endpoints that your Mindbreeze search apps use to run their queries, and interruptions to Client Services mean the search on your application or website might go down – causing untold problems. App.telemetry contains monitoring tools that...
Improving the Overall Mindbreeze Search Experience by Leveraging Advanced Query Reporting for your Custom Search App
A key piece of a successful search solution is being able to see how the users are interacting with the system and using relevant data to make improvements over time. This blog post will go through the steps of enabling Mindbreeze’s Advanced Query Reporting and how to...
When it comes to Insight Engines and Enterprise Search, Mindbreeze is the Clear Leader
For the third time, Mindbreeze has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines. In the 2021 report, Mindbreeze stands out as the company with the highest Ability to Execute – see below (The large circle was added by Fishbowl Solutions...
Integrating a Mindbreeze Search App, 360 Degree Search, and Chatbot with ServiceNow
Fishbowl Solutions is a Mindbreeze Certified Partner, meaning we’re among a small group of companies who have demonstrated a high level of Mindbreeze competency and performance. Our team is available to solve your specific search challenges efficiently. The demo below...
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Fishbowl’s Mindbreeze Experts Weigh In on What Makes Mindbreeze a Leading Enterprise Search Solution
In October, Fishbowl Solutions was named Mindbreeze’s Integration Partner of the Year. To learn more about our partnership with Mindbreeze, I sat down with two of our in-house experts: Associate Software Consultant Jeremy Hericks and Enterprise Support Engineer John...
Determining Licensed Document Counts Within a Mindbreeze Index
One of our most frequently asked questions from our Mindbreeze customers is, “How do I determine how many documents are in each index?” We typically hear this from customers who have either hit their current licensed document count or are becoming concerningly close...
Fishbowl Solutions is Mindbreeze Integration Partner of the Year 2020
MINNEAPOLIS and CHICAGO – October 7, 2020 – Mindbreeze, a leading provider of appliances and cloud services in the field of information insight, today announced the winner of its award program in the category “Integration”. Fishbowl Solutions is a partner from the...
How Mindbreeze Ingests Content with the Semantic Pipeline
In Mindbreeze, the Semantic Pipeline refers to the process after a document is picked up by a crawler and then ultimately indexed. During this process, content and metadata can be extracted and manipulated to drive more intelligence in the Enterprise Search Solution....
Fishbowl as your Single Point of Contact for Mindbreeze Support in North America
Search is key to running a successful business. Finding the right document when it’s needed keeps businesses running on time and on schedule. When a document is missing, or can’t be located, chaos can ensue. It’s important that companies’ search capabilities are...
Keeping a Mindbreeze Appliance Updated, Secure, and Running Smoothly
Mindbreeze releases approximately 6-10 updates of various magnitudes each year with one or two updates being a major release. At Fishbowl, we do our best to keep our development appliance on the latest build available, so we know what to expect when our clients update...
Migrating from an Expiring Production Appliance to a New Mindbreeze Appliance
Recently, our Mindbreeze production appliance was set to expire so we needed to migrate the search functionality of our systems to our new Mindbreeze appliance. Migrating to a new appliance is a great time to cleanup your current configuration, indices, and...
Create a Better Search Experience by Combining Metadata Fields into Hierarchical Filters
Oftentimes content is tagged with metadata fields that are dependent on one another. An example of this kind of metadata would be Country, State, and City. When indexing content tagged in this manor with Mindbreeze, each of those metadata fields are independent of one...
Using Mindbreeze’s Canonical URLs to Remove Duplicate Page Results
Most websites have multiple variations of URLs that lead to the same page. Look, for example, at the following URLs: https://www.mycompany.com https://mycompany.com http://mycompany.com https://www.mycompany.com/home All of these URLs are referring to the same...
Mindbreeze Memory Tuning Tips for Better Performance
The Mindbreeze appliance offers a lot of versatility with the setup options it offers: indices, filters, client services, etc. However, trying to do too much on a single appliance can start to affect its overall performance, especially the memory usage. This article...
Integrating Google Cloud Search with Oracle WebCenter Content
In today’s post, we’re reviewing how we’ve integrated Google Cloud Search with Oracle WebCenter. As a long-time Google and Oracle partner, these integrations are one of our specialties. What is Google Cloud Search? Cloud Search combines the search expertise of...
Mindbreeze recognized once again as a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines
As Mindbreeze Certified Partner we're excited to announce that Gartner has once again positioned Mindbreeze in the Leaders quadrant of the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines. The research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. evaluated providers from all over the...
Introducing Fishbowl’s XML Feed Connector for Google Cloud Search
Last November, Google released Cloud Search with third-party connectivity. While not a direct replacement for the Google Search Appliance (GSA), Google Cloud Search is Google’s next-generation search platform and is an excellent option for many existing GSA customers whose appliances are nearing (or past) their expiration. Fishbowl is aiming to make the transition for GSA customers even easier with our new XML Feed Connector for Google Cloud Search…
Four Types of Mindbreeze Relevancy Boostings and How to Use Them
Strong relevancy is critical to a well-adopted search solution. Mindbreeze provides several ways to fine tune relevancy which they refer to as boosting. This post will explore how boosting works and four ways to apply boosting rules within Mindbreeze…
Leveraging Google Cloud Search to Provide a 360 Degree View to Product Information Existing in PTC® Windchill® and other Data Systems
Most organizations have silos of content spread out amongst databases, file shares, and one or more document management systems. Without a unified search system to tap into this information, knowledge often remains hidden and the assets employees create cannot be used...
The wait is over! Google Cloud Search with third-party connectivity is now available. Here’s what you need to know.
This month, Google Cloud opened the general availability of Cloud Search with third-party connectivity. This is an evolution of the Cloud Search available across G Suite, the set of cloud-native intelligent productivity and collaboration apps including Gmail, Drive...
Using the Mindbreeze client.js File to Create Custom Search Interfaces
This post describes how to create custom Mindbreeze search interfaces using the built-in Mindbreeze client.js file. This post is a follow up to our post on Four Options for Creating Mindbreeze Search Interfaces where we mention Option 3 is creating custom Mindbreeze...
Four Options for Creating Mindbreeze Search Interfaces
A well-designed search interface is a critical component of an engaging search experience. Mindbreeze provides a nice combination of both pre-built search apps and tools for customization. This post explores the following approaches to building Mindbreeze search...
GSA Migration is Easier than Ever with the Mindbreeze Winter 2018 Release
Mindbreeze recently announced the Winter 2018 release of Mindbreeze InSpire which brings a number of new features and enhancements to Mindbreeze customers. One notable addition is the GSA Transformer Service which enables Mindbreeze to receive Google Search Appliance (GSA) queries and provide a GSA-formatted XML response…
How We Integrated this Website with the Mindbreeze InSpire Enterprise Search Appliance
As many of you know Fishbowl is a Mindbreeze Certified Partner and search appliance reseller. A core component of our company culture is using the same tools and technologies we implement for our customers. For that reason, and to give readers like you a chance to try...
Why We Chose Mindbreeze for Enterprise Search: Fishbowl’s Competitive Analysis Across Search Platforms
Comparing Mindbreeze to Google Cloud Search, Coveo, Lucidworks, Yippy, Elasticsearch, and Solr Mindbreeze vs. Google Cloud Search As a Google Premier Partner and GSA implementer, we naturally looked to Google for GSA replacement options. At the time of our evaluation,...
How to Configure the Top 4 GSA Features in Mindbreeze – Plus 6 New Favorites
In the past few weeks, we've looked at why fishbowl chose Mindbreeze as a GSA replacement and how one of our GSA customers transitioned to Mindbreeze. Today I'll share how to set up the most-used GSA features within the Mindbreeze InSpire enterprise search appliance....
Replacing the Google Search Appliance with Mindbreeze for Intranet and Website Search: From Racking to Go-Live in 37 Days
In today's post I'm excited to share the story of a recent Mindbreeze deployment. One of our long-time customers, a global leader in the field of industrial automation, needed a replacement for their expiring Google Search Appliances (GSAs). They had used the GSA to...
Replacing Google Search Appliance: 5 Reasons Fishbowl Chose Mindbreeze
Google Search Appliance (GSA) Replacement, Alternatives, and Migration When Google said so long to the Google Search Appliance, we went to the market to find a replacement. We chose Mindbreeze. Here's why. If you're reading this, you've likely heard the news that...
Upcoming Webinar, “WebCenter Search that Works!” highlights Oracle WebCenter integration with Mindbreeze InSpire
Earlier this month, Fishbowl announced the release of our Oracle WebCenter Content Connector for Mindbreeze InSpire. The Connector enables the Mindbreeze enterprise search appliance to securely index and serve content stored in WebCenter Content. The Connector also...
Unboxing the Future of Fishbowl’s On-premise Enterprise Search Offering: Mindbreeze InSpire
Back on April 3rd, Fishbowl announced that we had formed a partner relationship with Mindbreeze to bring their industry leading enterprise search solutions to Fishbowl customers. We will offer their Mindbreeze InSpire search appliance to customers looking for an...
Mindbreeze Partnership Brings GSA Migration Path for Customers
This morning Fishbowl announced a new partnership with Mindbreeze bringing additional enterprise search options to our customers. As a leading provider of enterprise search software, Mindbreeze serves thousands of customers around the globe spanning governments,...
Fishbowl Solutions is now a Google for Work Premier Partner
As of August 1, 2015, Google promoted Fishbowl Solutions to Premier Partner status! This elevation is a testament to our commitment to selling and servicing Google Search Solutions, and we are very excited to be counted among the select companies to attain this level...
Google Search Appliance (GSA) Version 7.4 Released
Wanted to drop a quick note here that Google released the latest version of the Google Search Appliance software last week. That brings the most current version up to 7.4.0.G.72 and officially end of life's the 7.0 version of the appliance software. New features from...
Fishbowl’s GSA Portal Search Suite introduces JSR-286 portlet integration that brings Google search to Oracle WebCenter and Liferay Portal
Integrated Google search has arrived for Oracle WebCenter and Liferay Portal. Last week, Fishbowl Solutions announced the GSA (Google Search Appliance) Portal Search Suite. This is Fishbowl’s fourth product for the Google Search Appliance, and introduces a productized...
Demo: Google Search Appliance Connector 3.0 for Oracle WebCenter
Fishbowl Solutions recently released the newest version of our Google Search Appliance Connector for Oracle WebCenter. The Google Search Appliance (GSA) provides Google's sophisticated search capabilities for your intranets, websites, portals, and other enterprise...
Exposing Enterprise Search Capabilities within Oracle WebCenter Content
I shudder at the thought of how much time I have wasted searching for information during my professional career. I would bet that the number of keywords and keyword combinations I have used to search network file shares, local drives, email, and enterprise content...
Content in the Enterprise – Still Searching? Start Finding.
Fishbowl Solutions recently conducted a webinar in which we discussed our Google Search Appliance (GSA) Connector for Oracle Universal Content Management (Oracle UCM). We had a great turnout for the event with over 100 registrants and 80 attendees. The high-level of...
Oracle Adds SES to ECM
It appears Oracle has finally gotten around to inserting their Secure Enterprise Search capabilities into their Enterprise Content Management stack. According to this Oracle blog post by Oracle Product Manager Stephen Schleifer, SES is now allowed to be installed...
