Add the "Why" to Your Business Intelligence & Analytics with all Enterprise Information - Structured & Unstructured

Information demand is booming. Leaders and line-of-business managers are clamoring for new combinations of information, drawn from new sources and data types (structured, semi-structured and unstructured), in higher volumes than ever before:

Corporate databases, structured data...simply can’t satisfy the appetite for information...The spectrum of information sources is almost unlimited, and opportunities for innovative integration are abundant. [Organizations] must provide access, integration, and presentation capabilities for an extensive range of real-time, easily integrated, highly relevant information sources — internal and external, structured and unstructured.

— The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI)

Unfortunately, the variety and depth of analysis that BI tools can deliver is limited by incomplete information provided by legacy back-end systems serving up only structured data (databases), merely providing answers to pre-defined questions.

Vital business insights buried within unstructured content (documents, SharePoint, email archives, web, etc.), that could help not only answer what is happening, but also why it is taking place, often remain undiscovered.

A new approach is required to enable highly agile BI, drawn from all relevant sources — structured and unstructured, internal and external. Thankfully, this new agile information approach already exists: unified information access (UIA) technology, led by Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine® (AIE®).

Attivio AIE freely integrates, correlates and presents all enterprise information, structured and unstructured, with no data modeling required in advance.

Unlike other systems such as XML databases or legacy search tools that try to retrofit data and content to accommodate their technical limitations, Attivio AIE was built from the ground up as an "Analyze Everything" agile BI platform, combining, linking and analyzing data and content in ways other solutions simply cannot match.

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Key features of Attivio AIE that enable complete agile business intelligence include:

• Schema-less, universal indexing; no data modeling. AIE ingests all data and content into its universal index. AIE does not require relationships between any data or content to be defined in advance. Additionally, AIE ingests structured data on a table-by-table basis, unlike legacy search solutions that must "flatten" or denormalize databases in order to ingest them, impairing their analytical value.
• Advanced text analytics. Prior to indexing, AIE enriches and adds structure to documents and other unstructured content to maximize findability and joinability with related data and content from other sources. This includes a wide variety of built-in multi-language natural language processing (NLP); text extraction; entity extraction and normalization; key phrase extraction; sentiment analysis, content classification, behavioral analytics and more.
• Ad hoc query-time JOIN of all related data and content. AIE performs ad hoc relational JOINs of all related data and content matching a given query, again with no advance data modeling required, with full security. This groundbreaking functionality was conceived, developed and patented by Attivio.
• And unlike other solutions that try to bring together structured and unstructured data, Attivio AIE natively supports SQL queries via ODBC and JDBC. Users explore and analyze all related data and content with popular business intelligence tools including TIBCO Spotfire, Tableau and QlikView — without complex, slow, behind-the-scenes efforts by other solutions to retrofit legacy technology to handle SQL.
  

Proven by top global organizations and bold start-ups alike, Attivio AIE truly is an "Analyze Everything" platform, rapidly integrating and correlating all structured and unstructured information silos for a complete informational picture. The result: truly complete agile business intelligence, providing new insights and enabling innovative business decisions that increase revenues, savings and competitiveness.