Text Analytics
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 ( 1 so far )Four reasons why the time is right for IBM to tackle Advanced Analytics
IBM has dominated a good deal of the news in the business analytics world, recently. On Friday, it completed the purchase of SPSS and solidified its position in predictive analytics. This is certainly the biggest leg of a recent three-prong attack on the analytics market that also includes:
Purchasing Red Pill. Red Pill is a privately-held [...]
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 [...]
The Brave New World of Text Analytics Applications
Attensity Corporation announced today that it is joining forces with two other text analytics/information management companies, Living e and Empolis, to form a new company called Attensity Group focused on creating business user applications on top of sophisticated data and semantic analytics technology. According to Michelle de Haaff, CMO, the new combined company has software [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IBM Business Analytics and Optimization – The Dawn of New Era
I attended the IBM Business Analytics and Optimization (BAO) briefing yesterday at the IBM Research facility in Hawthorne, NY. At the meeting, IBM executives from Software, Global Business Services, and Research (yes, Research) announced its new consulting organization, which will be led by Fred Balboni. The initiative includes 4000 GBS consultants working together with the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Redefining Innovation?
Can people learn to innovate? It may depend on how you define innovation. When most people think of innovation, they think invention – like developing a post-it note. But, innovation can be something different. Innovation can be as simple as using something old in a new way or as complex as inventing something… well really [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Real Time Text Analytics
I’ve recently noticed a small buzz building about the notion of “real time” text analytics. In fact, I’ve come across several vendors talking about it in relation to customer experience and financial trading. The idea is that these companies analyze a lot of unstructured data quickly and provide real time information to the people who [...]
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