Laurent Simoneau

President and CTO,

Coveo

Laurent Simoneau is President and CTO of Coveo, and is considered one of industry’s top enterprise search experts. Prior to Coveo, Mr. Simoneau was CTO of Copernic, an early leader in desktop search, where he oversaw the company’s product strategy and directed the research and development of core technologies. Mr. Simoneau also served as Chief Operating Officer at Copernic during which he successfully orchestrated the spin-off of the company’s enterprise search division in 2004 into what is now Coveo.

Mr. Simoneau is a graduate of Université du Quebec, where he holds an MBA degree. He resides in Quebec City with his wife and children, with whom he enjoys playing hockey on the weekends.

Author Archives: Laurent Simoneau

The History of Knowledge Sharing: A Coveo Infographic

Sharing and connecting sources of knowledge is behind everything we do. While we like to talk about the present and future of knowledge exchange, we can also look to the past for sources of inspiration and education. To capture this history, we created an infographic that showcases a few key milestones of knowledge access and [...]

Engineering Teams: Who’s in your Tribe?

Many organizations have invested significantly to create a “network effect,” where teams dispersed internationally are encouraged to use technologies to share, explore and innovate faster. As we’ve seen, additional tools don’t necessarily lead to additional collaboration and knowledge sharing. Often, the tools themselves become new silos of information, from which it is difficult if not [...]

Uncovering Actionable Intelligence to Eliminate the Insight Deficit

It’s no secret that data is growing in size and complexity; even more importantly, the vast majority of this data is unstructured, making it difficult to categorize, understand and manipulate. It cannot be housed in traditional databases and it cannot be understood as a whole. This information is siloed, by systems, departments, geographies, and type. [...]

I’ll Take My Customer 360 Info “To Go” Please

According to Gartner Research, the field service market encompasses 20 million mobile field service workers worldwide. Field service workers are a company’s “feet on the street”, represent the company’s brand, and are an extension of the customer service organization. They’re ultimately expected to provide great service and have an accurate, holistic view of the customer [...]

Enterprise Search Grows Up

Do you remember the advent of enterprise search solutions over a decade ago? When first introduced, they held a great deal of promise. Yet, as with many new technologies, there were challenges to their implementation and use.  Although a good percentage of companies adopted early enterprise search solutions, they were not well accepted by knowledge [...]