Biographical Information
            
                
                    
                        
                            Jeff Fried
                    
                    
                        Chief Technology Officer, BA Insight
                    
                    
                 
                
                    jeff Fried, CTO of BA Insight is a longstanding nerd focused on applications of search, text analytics and cognitive computing. @jeffried
                 
             
            
        
            Articles by Jeff Fried
    
        
            Footprints on the Microsoft desktop
        
        
            
                
                    31 Mar 2016
        
        
            You don't hear Microsoft talking much about cognitive computing. But in fact, Microsoft has been quietly working some significantly deep technology into shallow applications ... These advanced ?capabilities lurk in pretty prosaic applications such as my desktop.
    
        
            Using a Search-First Migration Strategy to SharePoint 2013
        
        
            
                
                    02 Jun 2015
        
        
            SharePoint 2013 includes many major improvements over previous versions, and upgrading to it can provide significant business value. There are end user-oriented improvements that lead to increased productivity and adoption, architectural and platform enhancements that improve operations and governance, and significant new workload capabilities across BI, Web content management, publishing and more. Better search has consistently been a top request of SharePoint 2010 users and has been a major focus for Microsoft . . . .