Patent Issued to Attivio for Unique Method of Unifying Multiple Content and Data Sources

Monday, December 19, 2011 - Company Release

Inverted Index Establishes Standard for Scalable Approach to Connect Information Across Multiple Silos

Attivio, creator of Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE), the leading platform for unified information access (UIA), has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 8073840 for "Querying Joined Data Within A Search Engine Index." Attivio's technology retains the structures and relationships found in all types of information, and allows users and applications to exploit these links at query time. Customers can develop new analysis methods that span information silos, and gain insight that would be missed by legacy systems.

"The industry recognizes Attivio's unique and innovative approach to UIA," said Sid Probstein, CTO, Attivio. "Because AIE was built from the ground-up to process and analyze both unstructured and structured data, we provide the true bridge between qualitative and quantitative information. This patent is testament to the accomplished and dedicated team that has made the continuously evolving Active Intelligence Engine a critical asset."

The essence of UIA is the ability to connect current information across silos, seamlessly integrating with existing IT infrastructures, so customers can freely explore, discover and monitor relationships and trends. Attivio AIE's join capability, in combination with its recently announced SQL support and ODBC connectivity fulfills this vision. Without these powerful technology advantages, which are unmatched by any other information management software company, the full potential of UIA cannot be realized.

AIE also makes use of JOIN to deliver the following next-generation capabilities:

• AIE Active Security, which aggregates security information from multiple authorities and provides early-bound resolution of queries without security compromises that result from re-processing documents with embedded ACLs, as is typical with legacy technologies.
• Support for big data analysis that is more "real-time" than other solutions, and where the analysis may need to consider all of the data at once, not just a slice of it.
• Support for goal-oriented graph queries, often used in semantic querying. See details here.
• The ability to find information linked to multiple entities and sources. Names of people, products, locations, and even things like telephone numbers can be linked effortlessly to structured and unstructured data using a single query

"Enterprises need an information platform that unites access to all data sources — structured and unstructured," according to Sue Feldman, Research VP, IDC. "It must enable easy, natural interaction and be accessible to business users across the organization. It must normalize across all sources and formats to uncover the relationships that surface. Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine is one of a new breed of information access platforms that is designed to do exactly this."

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