Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines 2019
Attivio was recognized for our completeness in vision and ability to execute.
April 19, 2017
Natural Language Processing
Remember the frustrations of key word search? If you need a refresher, just check out If Google Was a Guy. It’s funny—in a way that makes you kind of squirm in your seat. Of course, in the early days of search engines, power searchers used Boolean query operators. We have George Boole, 18th-century English mathematician, to thank for that.In fact, there ..
April 14, 2017
What Are *Cognitive* Recommendations in Search?
When you think search, you usually think of asking a question and getting an answer. This is usually correct, but sometimes you need more than that.Consider search in a more specific context:Finding the expert in a large company with many locations and remote workers,Gathering information on a prospective customer from across multiple sources,For a pharmaceu..
April 7, 2017
Two Benefits of Machine Learning in the Attivio Platform
Some days, it seems that new machine learning applications are popping up everywhere you look in the news. In this author’s opinion, the search market seems to have anointed machine learning as the new hotness. This is a fascinating realization, because anyone who has spent more than a couple years deploying search in the enterprise knows that machine lear..
April 5, 2017
A Case for Sherlock | Getting to Artificial Intelligence
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1886 fictional “consulting detective,” Sherlock Holmes, was a great mind renowned for his highly advanced powers of observation and reasoning. He was often assisted by Dr Watson, who was unfailingly loyal, if noticeably less bright. At the end of each thrilling tale starring the duo, the anxious reader would always be delighted..
March 31, 2017
Cognitive Search Platform vs. Point Solutions: The Gartner MQ
Attivio, a cognitive search platform provider, is pleased to have been recognized recently by Gartner as a “Visionary” in their inaugural report on “Insight Engines.” The report offers this definition for what an Insight Engine actually does:"Insight engines apply relevancy methods to describe, discover, organize and analyze data. This allows existin..
March 31, 2017
The Patented Composite Join in the Attivio Platform
One of the foundational technology differentiators of the Attivio Platform is the ability to perform Query Time Joins of data across both structured and unstructured data. Last year we received our latest patent on an extension of that technology called a “Composite Join” and it has enabled us to deliver some awesome solutions for our customers. The..
March 24, 2017
Policy Management for Regulatory Compliance: How Effective Is Yours?
Policies are rarely something that get people excited, but when it comes to the enterprise, they are the foundation for every risk and compliance solution. More importantly, regulators around the world and in every industry, rely on, and in many cases, require corporations to maintain and enforce policies. Policies are what keep your data private, ..
March 15, 2017
Security: Crucial Component of Cognitive Search
Attivio has been at the forefront of secure search-based applications for the last 8 years. Using our patented query-time join capabilities we are able to store security information in the index separate from the content and use it to apply security filters automatically to ensure that end users only see the most relevant content they are allowed to see. Thi..
March 8, 2017
IBM, Salesforce, AI. Wait, what?
USA Today’s Marco della Cava ran an article earlier this week, “IBM, Salesforce join AI forces with Watson, Einstein.” The artificial intelligence-based partnership aims to, “boost the range of predictive analytics it can provide clients.” Salesforce’s AI Platform, Salesforce Einstein, which mines data to help salespeople close leads,..