Text Analytics

Text Analytics Meets Publishing

Posted on November 30, 2009. Filed under: BI innovation, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Text Analytics, text mining | Tags: , , , |

I’ve been writing about text analytics for a number of years, now. Many of my blogs have included survey findings and vendor offerings in the space.  I’ve also provided a number of use cases for text analytics; many of which have revolved around voice of the customer, market intelligence, e-discovery, and fraud.  While these are [...]

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A different spin on analyzing content – Infosphere Content Assessment

Posted on November 6, 2009. Filed under: BI innovation, Business Analytics, Content Management, Text Analytics, text mining | Tags: , , , , |

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 [...]

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Four reasons why the time is right for IBM to tackle Advanced Analytics

Posted on October 7, 2009. Filed under: BI innovation, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Operational BI, Text Analytics, data analysis, innovation, smarter planet | Tags: , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

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Threats to the American Justice System – Can Enterprise Content Management Help?

Posted on June 8, 2009. Filed under: Business Analytics, Content Management, Text Analytics, text mining | Tags: , , , , , , |

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 [...]

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Text Analytics Summit 2009

Posted on June 3, 2009. Filed under: Business Analytics, Content Management, Text Analytics, text mining | Tags: , , , |

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 [...]

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2009 Text Analytics Survey

Posted on May 11, 2009. Filed under: BI innovation, Business Intelligence, Content Management, Text Analytics, text mining | Tags: , , , , , |

 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 [...]

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The Three C’s – conceptual search, clustering, and categorization

Posted on May 6, 2009. Filed under: Business Intelligence, Content Management, Text Analytics, classification, search | Tags: , , , , , |

 
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 [...]

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The Brave New World of Text Analytics Applications

Posted on April 20, 2009. Filed under: BI innovation, Business Intelligence, Text Analytics, text mining | Tags: , , , |

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 [...]

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IBM Business Analytics and Optimization – The Dawn of New Era

Posted on April 15, 2009. Filed under: BI innovation, Business Intelligence, Information Management, Text Analytics, data analysis, innovation, smarter planet | Tags: , , , , |

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 [...]

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Redefining Innovation?

Posted on April 1, 2009. Filed under: Text Analytics, innovation, semantics | Tags: , , |

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 [...]

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