Attivio Kicks Information Discovery Up a Notch

July 31, 2008 Information Today

Perhaps the most important feature of AIE 1.2 is its "query-side JOIN" capability. The company has applied for a patent for this special technology. JOIN is a command in the SQL language for relational databases that correlates data from multiple tables. AIE now can extend the JOIN to unstructured content—and it can do this on-the-fly at query time. For example, it can link and correlate information from a product database with content from email, blogs, and documents. Attivio claims that "AIE is the first engine of its kind to realize the simplicity, speed, and fuzziness of search with the precision of SQL." Read full article...