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Written by Sarah Meyer
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
Early awareness enables quick action. Discovering issues before they become problems and being the first to know important information is always an advantage - especially when you can turn that insight into action. When the information you need is drawn from multiple sources and is derived from analytical processes, the speed and accuracy of the information depends on the technology that delivers it.
Many companies rely on Business Intelligence (BI) to provide a composite view of enterprise data and a framework for making well-informed business decisions. BI and other data-driven applications have helped businesses improve transactions and manage massive data volumes. Because of their central importance, data applications and the data structures that support them are a major focus of IT. But as global markets move faster, data volume explodes, and data buried in documents, emails, web sites, etc., becomes increasingly important, companies are bumping up against the limits of these applications.
Unified information access (UIA) is emerging as a core technology for dramatically improving the value of existing BI and data warehouse applications. UIA, which unites textual content with traditional data in a universal index, does more than incorporate documents into data applications. UIA also provides easy-to-use search user paradigms and faster information availability. Together, these capabilities deliver broader, deeper, and more-timely insight.
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 |
In this whiteboard video, Attivio CTO Sid Probstein walks us through the unique capabilities of the AIE Facet Finder.
Sid will provide an overview of how dynamic facet recommendation works in the Attivio Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) and how it frees up developers from worrying about the underlying data model, allowing them to focus on building feature-rich applications on top of the AIE platform.
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Written by Sid Probstein
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 |
It's a common enough question: can a search engine replace a relational database? The answer is "sometimes".
One challenge is transaction support and the ACID properties. If we focus on replacement for the purpose of querying only, we can leave that aside. This leaves some other interesting challenges. First and foremost is the need to translate the relational model to the search model.
Relational databases are so named because they organize data in various ways – typically by commonality, but this is dependent on the application - with relationships between sets of data expressed through foreign keys. Data stored in relational database is sometimes normalized, but this is not required. Using this model, it is a straightforward matter to represent one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships, and query them.
In contrast, search engines map words to documents; the documents may have structure - typically fields - but content/data is generally not normalized. Converting relational data to an index model requires running a query in the database to produce a single table - a "flattened" view that can be indexed such that each row is a document, and each column is a field within it.
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Written by Sarah Meyer
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
Unified information access allows people to retrieve all types of information using a free-form query, replacing legacy enterprise search, extending BI, and enabling advanced text analytics. We're sometimes asked for examples of projects and challenges that might benefit from a UIA solution, so we've put together a Q&A list on our Blog so you can see if it's the right fit for you.
Q: Do you need to replace or extend a data warehouse, data mart or other operational data store and want an approach that does not require a significant investment in up-front design?
A: AIE ingests all types of data into a universal index so you can analyze, access, and explore data within a schema-less data model. You can also integrate unstructured content and present the data in BI-style dashboards.
Q: Is your challenge finding a more automated way to "connect the dots" (for example people, places and things) across disparate pieces and sources of content and data, so you can more effectively discover insights and make decisions?
A: AIE's patent-pending JOIN operator connects data and content from diverse sources, and workflow enables automated discovery, analysis and delivery of information to people and processes.
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
In this whiteboard video, Attivio Co-Chief Architect Martin Serrano provides a whiteboard overview of how connectors and workflow play an integral role in the Active Intelligence Engine™.
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