Attivio Upgrades Its Active Intelligence Engine

Monday, June 7, 2010 - Information Today, Paula Hane

Since its launch two and a half years ago, Attivio, Inc. has been singularly focused on enabling unified access to structured and unstructured information. With Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine (AIE), users retrieve and analyze all types of content and data with simple, search-style queries. New features in AIE version 2.1 include SQL support (via a JDBC driver), key phrase detection, content spotlighting, entity-level sentiment analysis, and integrated connector support for active security. With the release of AIE 2.1, Attivio also provides a platform for building applications, such as dashboards, which provide a comprehensive view across documents, websites, emails, and more, as well as data that has traditionally been limited to database applications.

Last year, Attivio announced a beta program to test its new AIE SQL module that would let customers write and execute SQL queries against AIE directly or from existing enterprise BI tools and applications. The company has since completed the beta with two customers and AIE 2.1 now includes this full SQL support.

"With the latest version of AIE, we have accomplished some significant milestones. Support for AI-SQL via JDBC delivers the precision of SQL with the fuzziness of search, using a language that is entirely familiar to virtually all developers. At the same time, key phrasing helps to disambiguate an entity based on statistical improbabilities, while our sentiment analysis capabilities can see beyond seemingly positive content to get to the underlying cause of negativity," said Sid Probstein, chief technology officer, Attivio. "These features are not available in legacy enterprise search, data management, or business intelligence technologies. AIE brings the best of these solutions into a single UIA platform."

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