Category: Thought Leadership

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Great AI Isn’t About AI

I grew up in a hotel in Jamaica, so I learned (really) early how to make a great old-fashioned. Want the secret? It isn’t (just) the bourbon. It also isn’t the ice or the glass or the fancy story.  Instead,...

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BI Tools Are TiVo

DVRs should not have existed. We should’ve all recorded “Friends” with our PCs to watch at our leisure. Alas! Despite being conceptually similar, TVs and computers were technically incompatible. The only people with digital recording power were that dentist/veterinarian couple...

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How Africa Skipped Analog

In the 90s people said there were more phone lines in Manhattan than all of Africa.  As crazy as that sounds, it was probably true. What’s even crazier is that by 2010 the continent led the world in mobile web...

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Hey, Tech Decision-Makers: Customization Can Kill You

For a brief and glorious time, everyone’s social media profile could be different! My MySpace page could be pickle green with Papyrus text and auto-play “Lips of an Angel” if I wanted.  Anything was possible.  But the customizability that helped...

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Want to Buy the Best AI Tools? Study Victorian Bathrooms

Back when beetle wings on dresses was cool, indoor plumbing was brand new. And exciting.  As a result, those with the $$ to get it wanted to show it off. Instead of having the pipes hidden inside the flooring and...

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Introducing Caffeine!

Caffeine is a newsletter by me, Andrew McKay.  I think you’ll love it, and here’s why.  Each issue (after this one) will deliver:  1. Salesforce search tips that improve how your business runs or 2. Thought leadership that improves your...

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[VIDEO] The Best Way to Search Salesforce and Connected Systems

Want to dramatically improve your ability to search in Salesforce? You’ve come to the right place. This article will show you how to… It also features a video demonstrating these capabilities with search experts Sid Probstein and Andrew McKay.  Let’s...

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Webinar Salesforce Search: Building a Successful ISV Product on Salesforce

KonaSearch is a Salesforce search engine that actually understands how to curate data in an intelligent contextual way for the purpose of some particular flow. So parts of what our product is implemented for is what we would call a matching engine. We walk through an example in recruiting executive search and staffing. We're searching both the structured data and the unstructured data together that combined relevancy score provides better results.

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Developer Webinar: KonaSearch and Swirl Metasearch

Andrew McKay, KonaSearch CEO, Excerpt from Webinar Taking a deep dive into enterprise search in Salesforce The search industry has been very interesting in the last number of decades. The old Fairbanks Center for Research still has meaning and only...

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[Video] Salesforce Search Query Examples

Salesforce Search Query Examples   KonaSearch CEO Andrew McKay shows real examples of @salesforce search queries and how they benefit from deep search in the following ways: — Matching – finding search results by combining multiple data sources. — Automation...

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