The Challenges for Integrating SharePoint Content

Organizations struggle to provide immediate and secure access to comprehensive information, which is typically dispersed in multiple sources and formats — including databases, websites, email and, increasingly, across an exploding number of SharePoint instances. The difficulty of discovering and delivering timely insight derived from all these resources exposes gaps in the ability for organizations to:

• Integrate and rapidly update information from diverse repositories
• Provide a single method for users to find the information they need, regardless of its origins

Without these capabilities, organizations waste time and are at risk for missing opportunities, compromising decisions, and failing to detect and intervene early on issues.

AIE Increases Availability and Value

AIE for SharePoint, which is based on Attivio's award-winning Active Intelligence Engine® (AIE®), is a unified information access platform that ingests and indexes all types of data and content together, delivering complete information in response to a single query, which can be expressed either as search requests or SQL statements.

AIE provides important advantages over legacy methods for finding information:

• Delivers high-performance access to diverse information
• Retains data relationships and JOINs data extracted from text sources including SharePoint (e.g., names, products, policy topics)
• Offers text analytics, such as classification, key phrases and sentiment analysis, to derive deeper insight
• Presents results in a variety of customizable interfaces, from lists and reports to interactive dashboards – most importantly, in and across SharePoint using Attivio's SharePoint WebParts UI Library
• Automates information delivery and alerts to people, interfaces and designated applications

Platform Advantages

AIE is an enterprise-class environment that:

• Closes security gaps with active security, AIE's unique rapid-update permissioning that ensures each user sees only allowed information, but allows restricted material to be included in results for authorized staff – reducing risk and ensuring complete results
• Enables rapid deployment so you can be up and running in weeks rather than months
• Provides guaranteed indexing and high availability

Organizations that adopt AIE to integrate SharePoint content with other information sources not only improve the results of information queries, they also future-proof their investment by laying the groundwork for more sophisticated uses of unified information access, such as automated information delivery and active dashboards.

The Attivio Impact!

Attivio increases the return on your SharePoint investment:

• Integrates SharePoint across sites and with other enterprise information – increasing value of SharePoint investment
• Simplifies and unifies information availability – improving insight and productivity
• Closes security gaps and reduces user entitlement complexity with rapid-update permissioning – reducing risk while increasing information availability and performance
• Shortens implementation time compared to enterprise search – reducing costs and expediting time to value
• Lays groundwork for evolution to unified information access across the organization – future-proofing the investment

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