Attivio AIE

Are you getting all you can out of your corporate data? What does it cost you? How about your corporate content (email, documents, media, etc.)? Good business is conducted when you get the right information to the right person at the right time. It starts with having access to all your information and it succeeds when you can use the information to drive business processes when they happen. If you embrace only one of these ideas, you have less than half the solution.

Attivio AIE (Active Intelligence Engine) is the only system that does both. It "mashes up" Enterprise Search and Business Intelligence technologies in such a way that it allows for a deeper and more meaningful integration of information assets to promote good business. It integrates data and content into one universal repository - "intelligence" - and then because it is a real time engine, it lets you tie your assets directly to your corporate processes (applications, polices, decision flow, etc.) - "active intelligence".

Intelligent
Even the most aggressive and disciplined enterprises have at least two silos of information: one for structured data (e.g. mainframe data, databases, corporate applications), commonly referred to as the BIDW stack (business intelligence and data warehousing), and the other for unstructured content (e.g. documents, web pages, email, media), which includes enterprise search, CMS, DMS, and RMS (content/document/records management systems). We have lived with the challenge of having to choose between the precision of databases and the richness of search for a long time, but no longer.

Attivio AIE integrates both structured data and unstructured content into a single universal repository, without compromising the richness of either, so you have intelligent access to all your company's information. It then brings together the analysis, visualization, reporting, and other services on top of the repository that make it useful. With analysis, you have both data mining and text mining working together. With visualization and reporting, you have the precision of SQL and business intelligence and the fuzziness of search working together.

Active
Information by itself is not an asset; you have to do something with it to make it useful. AIE lets you trigger an event or action based on the results of a query or anywhere in the workflow logic you use to ingest data and content. This event or action could be a call through any one of over forty communication transport protocols (e.g. HTTP, FTP, SMTP, email) as a notification to another person or active dashboard, or as a trigger to do something in an application. Or it could simply be a response to someone's question online.

This is what makes the information active, but to truly make it useful it must create its action within the context of the relevant corporate process, not after the fact when it is too late to respond other than for historical analysis. This is a singular problem for business intelligence because it is architected for a batch environment. AIE, however, is a real-time system with real-time processing, so the latency is minimal, and you get the answer in time to react or respond immediately.

Easy and Powerful
The best solution in the world won't work if you can’t use it. Attivio has gone to great lengths to ensure an accessible, efficient, easy to use, secure system. In fact, soon you will be able to download it from this site. But many software products are easy to use. The difference is they usually sacrifice functionality and flexibility to get there. AIE does not.