Content Management
A different spin on analyzing content – Infosphere Content Assessment
IBM made a number of announcements last week at IOD regarding new products/offerings to help companies analyze content. One was Cognos Content Analytics, which enables organizations to analyze unstructured data alongside structured data. It also looks like IBM may be releasing a “voice of the customer” type service to help companies understand what is being [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Threats to the American Justice System – Can Enterprise Content Management Help?
I was at the EMC writer’s conference this past Friday, speaking on Text Analytics and ECM. The idea behind the conference is very cool. EMC brings together writers and bloggers, from all over the world, to discuss topics relevant to content management. All of the sessions were great. We discussed Cloud, Web 2.0, Sharepoint, Text [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Text Analytics Summit 2009
I just got back from the Text Analytics Summit and it was a very good conference. I’ve been attending the Summit for the last three years and it has gotten better every year. This year, it seemed like there were a lot more end users and the conference had more of a business oriented approach [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )2009 Text Analytics Survey
Several weeks ago, in preparation for the Text Analytics Summit, I deployed a short survey about the state of text analytics. I supplemented the end-user survey with vendor interviews. Here are some of the end-user findings.
First, a few words about the survey itself and who responded to the survey.
I wanted to make the survey short [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Three C’s – conceptual search, clustering, and categorization
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Richard Turner, VP of Marketing, at Content Analyst. Content Analyst was originally part of SAIC and spun out about 5 years ago. The company provides content management, eDiscovery, and content workflow solutions to its clients – primarily as an OEM solutions.
The tool set is called CAAT (Content [...]
Text Analytics meets Enterprise Content Management ‘Round 2– IBM Content Analyzer
Why? How? These are key questions that business people ask a lot. Questions such as, “Why did our customer retention rate plummet?” or “How come our product quality has declined?” or even “How did we end up in this mess?” often cannot be answered using structured data alone. However, there is a lot of unstructured [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A different way to search?
I recently had an interesting conversation about classification and search with James Zubok, CFO of Brainware, Inc. Brainware is a Virginia based company that was once part of SER Systems AG, a former German ECM company. Brainware provides products that help companies extract information from unstructured and semi-structured documents, such as invoices, order forms, contracts, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Text Analytics Meets Enterprise Content Management
Late last summer, Hurwitz & Associates published a report on Text Analytics. As part of the report we surveyed companies that had deployed the technology, were planning to deploy the technology, or had no plans to deploy text analytics. We asked companies planning to deploy text analytics solutions whether they planned to integrate it with [...]
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