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I am in Tel Aviv enjoying a beautiful summer afternoon with a new customer when my mood is altered by a credit card snafu. Back in the states, a wary bank has decided to turn off my credit card due to unfamiliar charges. I quickly explain who I am and provide the security information necessary to activate my card...and pay for the meal.

My colleagues at the dinner begin to laugh as it is often the case that international visitors, particularly Americans, have this issue in Israel. Israel has a very large percentage of foreign travellers, some of whom are not law abiding and have a habit of stealing credit card information and using it to pay for their holidays.

Of course to me, this just represents another opportunity for Attivio to assist the world. What if the bank fraud department was using Attivio?

The suspicious charge would be received and flagged. Using the workflow capabilities in AIE, the bank could create a set of rules that are triggered when a transaction is flagged by the system. This could include a set of auto-run queries that are executed against the data pulled from their systems so that a credit administrator would receive an alert on their dashboard, with all the related charges and could quickly surmise that the charge was not fraudulent. These workflows would return results that show the credit card had been used to purchase my airline ticket to Israel, confirm the ATM withdrawal at Newark prior to departing for Tel Aviv and show that I checked into the hotel successfully.

With Attivio, the bank not only has the ability to detect fraud and avoid annoying a customer, it also has the opportunity to invoke a revenue generating campaign by offering potential travel or purchase suggestions to me. Perhaps a rental car special, travel insurance, accident coverage, special dinner promotion at a great restaurant or maybe a night in Jerusalem. Attivio enables savings, new revenues and most importantly...brand loyalty, as a card as smart as one powered by Attivio will be used forever.

Shalom


Last week I had the pleasure of presenting on the topic of UIA and how it drives a 'return on information' - the new ROI - during a webinar with Matt Brown from Forrester Research. You can view the webinar on the KMWorld website.

We didn't have time to get to questions so I thought I would tackle them online.

Screenshot of AIE   being used for Social CRMQ: When we were more of a manufacturing marketplace, measuring results and performance was relatively straightforward. It is much more difficult nowadays as service and information providers to measure and grade those same things - not enough info/too much?

A: I think understanding the customer and how they view your products and services has always been important; it has simply been hard to analyze until the internet enabled the incredibly rapid creation of digital content. Social networks, blogs, wikis, etc, all offer a non-stop stream of feedback and competitive insight. No company can afford to ignore it. Technology like sentiment analysis can be used to comb through the data and understand important trends.


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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