Squiz acquires Funnelback search

July’s big news was Squiz’s acquisition of the Funnelback search company.

Read the press:

• Squiz acquires Funnelback (ZDNet)
  
• CSIRO sells Funnelback search company to Squiz (iTWire - Australia)
  
• CSIRO sells Funnelback search engine (Computerworld)

You can try a Funnelback search on the Australian government portal, http://www.australia.gov.au.

Funnelback's flagship product is Funnelback Enterprise. This is an integrated, industrial-strength search solution, that can be tuned to the specific information retrieval needs of clients. It searches content assets across internet, intranet, database and shared network drives, as well as electronic document management and portal systems.

Funnelback users include the Australian Government, Westpac Banking Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Securities Exchange, ninemsn, NRC Canada and the University of Staffordshire.

Announcing the acquisition, Squiz Global Managing Director John-Paul Syriatowicz said that Funnelback will remain trading as a separate company, and there would be no changes to company structure, staffing or strategy aside from an increased focus on close integration with MySource Matrix.

In you are interested in integrating Funnelback’s awesome search capabilities with your MySource Matrix CMS, make sure you register for:

• The Funnelback Search Seminar (Wellington, November 18)

• The MySource Matrix NZ User Workshop (Wellington, November 19)

MySource Matrix NZ User Workshop

Put a ring round November 19 – the date of the MySource Matrix NZ User Workshop.

We’re planning a fast-paced day, full of case studies, with streams for technical and organisational / communications practitioners.

In addition to New Zealand case studies, sessions will include:

• an overview of CMS technology trends from Squiz Global MD John-Paul Syriatowicz

• highlights from the MySource Matrix International User Conference at Hobart on October 26 and 27

• an insight into enterprise search, with world-leading Search technology company Funnelback.

The User Workshop programme will be announced in early September. To propose a case study, or let us know an area of special interest, check out our Call for case studies.

MySource Matrix NZ User Conference / Registrations / Call for case studies

Open source CMS and Search seminars

If your organisation is part of the inevitable trend towards browser-centric information management, a powerful, integrated search will play an increasingly important role in content management.

Squiz and Funnelback are running back-to-back seminars in Wellington on November 18.

• Open Source CMS seminar (morning)

• Funnelback Search seminar (afternoon).

These seminars are a great opportunity to see world-leading technology in enterprise web content management and enterprise search, and learn integration opportunities.

Fast forward on the youtube channel

For a quick preview of some key technology trends in enterprise web content management, check out Squiz’s new youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/OpenSourceCMS

Professional web content management training

Upcoming Courses - August

• MATR 210 MySource Matrix Packages – CMS (10 – 11 / Aug / 09)

• MATR 212 MySource Matrix Packages – Search (12 / Aug / 09)
  

• MATR 101 MySource Matrix Fundamentals (18 / Aug / 09)
  

• MATR 201 MySource Matrix System Administrator Concepts (24 - 25 / Aug / 09)
  

Upcoming training courses –  September

• STATS 103 - Website Statistics (07 / Sept / 09)

• MATR 210 MySource Matrix Packages – CMS (14 – 15 / Sept / 09).

• MATR 330 - MySource Matrix Designs (23 / Sept / 09)
  

• MATR 101 MySource Matrix Fundamentals (28 / Sept / 09)

• MATR 102 MySource Matrix Advanced WYSIWYG (29 / Sept / 09)

View Training Courses / Training Schedule / Training Registration Form

Enquiries, email training@squiz.co.nz, or contact: Kathy Olsen, phone (04) 801 0098 extension 861.

Learn how to make your web content accessible

Accessibility specialist Bruce Aylward of W 3 A will run a series of training courses at Squiz’s training lab in Wellington. Each course is a practical, hands-on guide to complying with one of the three WCAG 2.0 priority levels.

Course dates:

• 6 August – WCAG v2.0 Level A
• 13 August – WCAG v2.0 Level AA
• 20 August – WCAG v2.0 Level AAA
• 3 September – WCAG v2.0 Level A

• 10 September – WCAG v2.0 Level AA

• 17 September – WCAG v2.0 Level AAA

To enquire about these courses, email training@squiz.co.nz