Attivio Software Tracks Down Data

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - CRN.com

"The Lowdown: The total amount of digital data in the world is approaching 500 billion gigabytes and is doubling about every 18 months, according to an IDC estimate. Trouble is, making valuable use of all that information isn't easy.

Businesses today are awash in two types of data: structured and unstructured. The former is largely transactional data, the kind you find in corporate data warehouses and analyzed using traditional reporting and analysis tools. But those tools don't work well when it comes to unstructured information, everything from documents and e-mails to digitized audio and video " the kind of stuff we rely on search tools like Google to help us find.

Attivio Active Intelligence Engine
Enter Attivio and its Active Intelligence Engine that combines search and business intelligence capabilities in one "unified information access" product, giving users the ability to search for both kinds of data."

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