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.

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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