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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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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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Friday, 30 October 2009 |
In this whiteboard video, Attivio CTO Sid Probstein provides an overview of Unified Information Access and how it applies to the enterprise.
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Written by Mark Albala (Guest Blogger)
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 |
There is a major change going on in the marketplace. Because news circumnavigates the globe so quickly, and innovative ideas commoditize rather quickly thanks to our over-communicative global economy, your business requires a keen ability to meet the demands of an accelerated rate of change just to sustain your current market positioning. Unfortunately, many of your information resources, required to chart the course for this accelerated rate of change, haven’t kept pace. This is largely due to the time-consuming processes used to ingest new information and the high degree of complexity in the information models and transformation processes used to ingest current information.
The old practice of ensuring all information is represented in the information model and assuring organizational stakeholders that “it’s like Prego, it’s in there” just doesn’t surface welcome reactions any longer. A better means of providing focused, relevant, actionable information is mandatory. This new method, which can be thought of as Post-Discovery in contrast to the inflexible nature of pre-discovery, shifts the focus of information delivery to agility.
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Written by Rik Tamm-Daniels
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
I'm pleased to announce that Attivio has taken a huge step forward in further extending our Unified Information Access capabilities to the traditional business intelligence/data warehousing world. In addition to our simple query language and advanced query language with industry-leading enterprise search and UIA JOIN capabilities, Attivio now offers customers the ability to issue SQL queries against Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine (AIE).
This new module means that if you want to query your email and CRM records by keyword or report on them using SQL statements, you can do so with a single information access system. By extending our query support to SQL, we are now more fully addressing the spectrum of information access from keyword search queries to SQL reports and opening up AIE to a whole new audience.
Unified Information Access is not just the indexing of structured and unstructured content; it's also providing the full range of structured and unstructured query capabilities, from keyword search to reporting. AIE previously enabled traditional "structured" data reporting via its advanced query language, but with the addition of SQL, a whole ecosystem of customers, users and tools can easily begin realizing the benefits of a single UIA repository.
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