by Matt Manning We started IEI in 2007 with a simple premise: To help the folks running online information services make sure their data were never out of date so their clients always had a great user experience. After almost ... Read more
posted by Shyamali Ghosh on July 24, 2015
by Matt Manning It’s been 20 years since Internet search was “born,” and searching the Web is still pretty much the same as it was in 1995. Dubious sources of information are not weighted to be “worse” than accurate sources. ... Read more
posted by Shyamali Ghosh on July 6, 2015
by Matt Manning What happens when you have more metadata for a database record than there are fields of data in the original record itself? If you’re like almost every other company in the world you don’t have to imagine ... Read more
posted by Shyamali Ghosh on May 14, 2015
by Matt Manning Every information service wants their content to be discovered on the Internet and billions have been made serving that need. Lately there’s been a lot of talk about the “data discovery” technology that powers services like Outbrain, ... Read more
posted by Shyamali Ghosh on February 17, 2015
by Kevin Dodds We manage a lot of data at IEI and, more often than not, I find that the key to cleaning up and improving the data we get lies in where the data came from in the first ... Read more
posted by Shyamali Ghosh on June 30, 2014
IEI runs monitoring campaigns against data feeds to identify personnel updates, product launches, and other events that are “triggers” for updates to one of our customer’s databases using Enlyton, a new enterprise search tool that uses mathematical indexing to match ... Read more
posted by Shyamali Ghosh on May 14, 2014
On April 15th IEI’s Matt Manning spoke at the CASE District 4 Conference in Houston where he addressed an audience of alumni relations professionals. He discussed IEI’s recent experience updating an alumni database with the same tools IEI uses on ... Read more
posted by Shyamali Ghosh on April 17, 2014
by Shyamali Ghosh Here are a few of my favorite moments from the DataContent 2013 conference, which was, as always, a unique opportunity to learn more about what’s going on in our industry. Marketing Subscription Data Services bootcamp—Russell Perkins and ... Read more
posted by Shyamali Ghosh on October 17, 2013
At the DataContent 2013 conference, I will be a member of a panel discussing the tools being used in the information business to make our products richer, drive our costs lower, and keep our products updated in real time. When ... Read more
posted by Shyamali Ghosh on September 20, 2013
The idea of harnessing work as a utility (i.e, like flicking a switch to turn on labor “power”) is gaining traction. Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins recently included it in her list of technology trends to watch (one of the ... Read more
posted by Shyamali Ghosh on December 12, 2012
