Jumper versus Enterprise Search

A customer recently asked us at a show what the difference was between cluster search with Vivisimo and Jumper search? We hear this and similar questions quite often. Our response is always the same...

They are different tools to solve different problems.

Universal Search
Whether cluster search, keyword search, full-text search, page rank search, or federated search they all represent specific point solutions. Jumper provides a more global or universal view of all your information assets.

Federated search for structured data, page rank search for web pages, cluster search and keyword search for content and media, they each search across a specific silo. Each can be very effective at finding information within the silo. But they do not search across silos (either different formats, schemas, locations or vendors). Jumper provides search across all your silos and it connects disparate information together across these silos.

20% Rule
Traditional enterprise search only allows you to search storage that you already know about. The assets in centralized storage represent on average only 20% of all your information assets. The other 80% of information assets are hidden from traditional enterprise search, but are visible with Jumper.

In a large organization there can be thousands of databases, hundreds of file servers, dozens of content systems that are often distributed by division, department, geography, project, etc. Searching across all of these is, to be polite, extremely difficult with traditional search. Jumper gives you high-level visibility of all these assets regardless of format or location. It allows users who know, use, or create the information to share it with the organization.

Smarter than People?
All of the search solutions we have discussed are coded algorithms. Automated software programs that represent a one-size fits all approach to search. They lack the dexterity and the intelligence that Jumper delivers to search results.

A cluster or keyword search algorithm pulls out and indexes words that appear to be significant. However, it cannot provide the context, meaning, and value that we crave in search results. Even the best algorithm is not as good as a human being at interpreting the content or data. You have to click through each search result and analyze it for relevance. Jumper delivers the who, what, when, where, how, and why details with the search results so you can quickly determine relevance and value without inquiring each source.

Final Analysis
Your organization most likely uses both cluster search as well as federated search because they each provide value in their own way. Jumper can be included in this equation.

We always tell our customers that its not one solution or the other.

Organizations should use Jumper along side these other tools for the value it provides delivering true enterprise wide (even global) visibility as well as for its next-gen knowledge management capabilities.

Issues with loading SQL tables on installation

The recent issues with loading the Jumper SQL tables on installation have been fixed.

They were the result of a bug with the auto-loading script. Thanks Dominic for helping us get this resolved!

To get the fix please download the latest Jumper 2.0.1.5 release available on Sourceforge.

Any additional issues please email support@jumpernetworks.com

Jumper 2.0.1.5 released

The Jumper 2.0.1.5 platform was released today with full compatibility with PHP 5.3

Jumper and XAMPP 1.7.1

Many customers have been asking us about the errors that occur when loading Jumper with XAMPP 1.7.2.

As Punit mentioned Jumper 2.0.1.4 is not compatible with PHP 5.3.

We are working to fix this problem.

Until we have published this fix please use the previous version of XAMPP 1.7.1.

You can still find it on Sourceforge at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/

Just scroll down to the folder that is titled XAMPP Windows.

Click on this folder and then click on the sub-folder titled 1.7.1 and select the appropriate version. We recommend xampp-win32-1.7.1.zip

Please keep an eye on this blog for the fix which will be published soon.

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Please note that Jumper 2.0.1.4 is not compatible with PHP 5.3

This new version of PHP appears to have some conflicts that do not exist in the PHP 5.2 version. Please use PHP 5.2 available in XAMPP 1.7.1.

We will have more information soon.

Great all-in-one package for Jumper

If you are looking to install Jumper on Windows it can be a challenge getting Apache, PHP and mySQL installed.

A great one stop shop solution for installing Apache, PHP, and MYSQL for Windows is to install XAMPP. You can get it here ApacheFriends.org

A good tutorial on setting up Apache and MySQL on Windows using the XAMPP package is available at Six Revisions .

Any questions, comments, bugs, or challenges please post them in the Jumper 2.0 Developers Group

Jumper 2.0 is open source and open development

The Jumper 2.0 software is open source and open development. We are a growing project that provides the source code under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) but the decisions about how the code got to that state were initially developed by Jumper Networks and a very close knit community.

With the current release of Jumper 2.0.1.1 we are opening the software development to a select community of developers who will have all the requisite rights to edit, modify and redistribute the code as well as participate in future decisions for how or why the code should be further developed and expanded.

With the tremendous growth of the software, approaching over 700 installations at the time of this blog, the team is simply unable to keep up with the growth.

We currently have many users of the software who offer feedback, bug reports and ideas. We are looking for those individuals with the talent to help evolve the software to the next stage. Those who have the necessary skill, can work with the existing community, and who can become true shareholders in the project. If you would like to get more involved in the development process we need your help. We are expanding the project on Sourceforge to take on a limited number of new developers.

If you are a registered Sourceforge user contact the Jumper project administrator.