Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines 2019
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February 23, 2017
Machine Learning-based Relevancy
Search engines index millions of pieces of information, structured and unstructured. But simply indexing information isn’t enough to give a user the results they need when they perform a search.The Need for RelevancyThe goal of relevancy tuning is to help a user get the best results for a given query they are trying to run. Relevance is telling the search ..
February 16, 2017
All About Machine Learning in Cognitive Search
Recent research shows that over 66% of employees are dependent on search in their daily work. But there’s a problem. Forty-one percent are frustrated with their existing search application.Many enterprise search platforms offer task-based search, providing a simple search, analyze, decide and start over approach that provides no context between searches by..
February 14, 2017
3 Questions for Matt Maccaux of Dell EMC
Matt Maccaux leads Dell EMC’s global Big Data Practice and he’s one of the featured speakers in our upcoming 2/22 webinar, Building a Modern Data Architecture.We recently caught up with Matt and asked him 3 questions about his work in Big Data Services.Attivio: You work with customers on their Big Data environments. What are the biggest challenges they f..
February 10, 2017
What’s Next After Self-Service Analytics?
Over at least the last decade, we’ve seen a steady rise in the demand for self-service BI and analytical tools. More and more organizations realize the business value of their data for growing revenue, acquiring and retaining customers, streamlining operations, and lowering costs.This realization has caused a shift in the power dynamic between IT and the b..
January 30, 2017
3 Questions for Mike Moreno of Cloudera
Mike Moreno is the Sr. Partner Marketing Manager at Cloudera, and he’s one of the featured speakers in our upcoming 1/31 webinar with Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst, Brian Hopkins.We recently had a chance to catch up with him and get his take on the latest trends & happenings in Big Data & Hadoop.Attivio: What challenges are you see..
January 24, 2017
From Storage to Insights: Mining Business Value from Information Archives
In the mid twentieth century, author (and librarian) Jorge Luis Borge published a short story called The Library of Babel. The story describes a huge library of many hexagonal rooms, each of which is filled with books. The problem was the books seemed to be nothing but pages of random characters. Readers could make no sense of it.Many large organizations fin..
January 17, 2017
What is the Point of a Modern Data Architecture?
Good question. What is the point? The point is to create measurable business value from enterprise data. Of course, before measurable business value comes insight. The Modern Data Architecture (MDA) recognizes that insight can lie hidden in data of all types—structured or unstructured, messy or modeled, historical or realtime. An MDA combined with a s..
January 10, 2017
Have You Thanked Your Data Steward Today?
The other day I Googled, “the problem with a modern data architecture.” Of course, at Attivio we’re big evangelists for an MDA, but it’s always interesting to see what the contrarians have to say. There were over three million returns, but none on the first two pages said a word about problems. Lots of articles about how to develop an MDA or how to o..
January 4, 2017
Attivio Adds Financial Services Certification from Hortonworks
As I’ve mentioned in prior blogs, the biggest use cases we see in Hadoop these days come from the risk and compliance functions of large banks. Initially, many banks and other financial services institutions (FSIs) adopted Hadoop out of sheer necessity despite its early immaturity on the governance front. With primary analytic use cases such as Know Y..