Attivio Introduces AIE 3.0

Monday, October 31, 2011 - Company Release

Unified information access platform with full SQL and ODBC connectivity seamlessly adds context from unstructured content to big data, business intelligence and analytics

Responding to increasing demand for an advanced unified information access platform that complements and extends existing BI and big data technologies, providing access to diverse information, Attivio announced its Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE) 3.0. AIE is the industry's most powerful UIA platform for rethinking business challenges, reframing approaches and solving problems previously thought to be impossible.

Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine seamlessly unifies disparate content and data, so companies across a wide range of industries can address their most daunting "imagine-if" business challenges.

Examples of Attivio's organizational impact across multiple vertical industries include:

• Helping a leading global bank mitigate risk and reduce exposure to fines and penalties, reducing cash reserve requirements by $50 million
• Working with a government agency and predictive analytics partner to identify individuals who might be inclined toward high-risk behavior
• Providing an institutional investment firm with a multi-channel/multi-device application for accessing proprietary research anytime, anywhere
• Enabling analysts at a leading investment firm to quickly access the company's entire research and time-series data library, identifying new market correlations and lucrative investment opportunities
• Powering a nationally recognized charity's donor dashboard, integrating donation data, demographics, emails, and charity profile documents, to identify level of engagement and specific charitable interests for highly personalized donor communications with significantly increased response
• Cutting a life sciences research firm's time to market from 12 months to just 3
• Providing a full UIA platform for a global manufacturer with hundreds of millions of documents, terabytes of data and more than 400,000 staff and partners

Despite BI's advances, companies continue to struggle with responding quickly to a continuously evolving information landscape and the need for ease of information access business users require. Big data technologies address sheer volume, but not the variety, velocity and complexity now referred to as extreme information. Attivio AIE 3.0 gets to the heart of these problems by supporting the right information access method for every user in the enterprise — search queries and role-based dashboards for mainstream business users, existing BI investments for power users, and new applications that blur the lines between these worlds. AIE 3.0 delivers insight and access into the business activity that is most important to each user's particular function and corporate directive.

"Attivio AIE 3.0 takes unified information access to a more personalized level by supporting the right access method for every enterprise user. We are thrilled when we see our customers achieve results that improve financial performance, reduce overhead, drive new product innovations, and reduce time to market," said Sid Probstein, Attivio Chief Technology Officer. "AIE gives forward-thinking business managers the personalized and hands-on access they need to make quicker decisions and deliver meaningful value."

AIE 3.0 now offers the most accessible and standards-based approach to analytics of any UIA platform. Through its JDBC and newly announced ODBC drivers and full SQL support, AIE seamlessly integrates with virtually any BI tool. Customers can now leverage the powerful capabilities of tools like Tableau, MicroStrategy, QlikView, Jaspersoft, Cognos, Business Objects and many more - bringing the rich context of unstructured content to users of the most cutting-edge BI, visualization and analysis tools.

Attivio AIE 3.0 provides:

• SQL via ODBC and JDBC to seamlessly add unstructured content and text analytics to any existing BI infrastructure
• Active Dashboard Tookit for rapid creation of unified discovery-enabled analytic dashboards
• Dynamic integration of sources like SharePoint, Documentum, Exchange, etc.
• Google-like searchability, as well as SQL-powered dashboards
• Schema-less design that dramatically reduces the time to onboard new sources

For a full list of Attivio AIE 3.0 features, please click here. To view a video demo of AIE 3.0, please click here.

"The challenges emerging from the growth of 'big data,' as well as business demand for more flexible, timely and well governed information in support of new use cases, is causing existing approaches to information infrastructure to break," according to Mark Beyer, Gartner Research VP. "Organizations that establish a road map toward a cohesive, application-independent and information source-independent set of information management technology capabilities are best positioned to support long-term enterprise information management (EIM) goals. Look for common ways to normalize and extract meaning from all types of content so that it can be exchanged across the organization."

"Achieving relevant and timely insight from disparate enterprise information can be a challenge using traditional stand-alone approaches such as BI, search tools and data analytics," said Fahim Siddiqui, Chief Product Officer, IntraLinks. "Attivio removes the obstacles to achieving this, allowing customers like IntraLinks to evolve our thinking on how to address information challenges. AIE 3.0 will help IntraLinks continue to deliver on our promise of providing fast, flexible and direct access to the right types of results that business users need."

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