By Dr. Fern Halper

Sponsored by EMC

Content management systems are a treasure trove of information since there is a significant amount of insight that can be derived from this unstructured data. 

Information is the lifeblood of any company. While organizations have made significant progress in analyzing their structured data (such as sales figures and number of complaints), the reality is that most company information is unstructured. This unstructured information includes claims, contracts, patents, call center notes, clinical trial records, and survey responses, which are often stored in enterprise content management systems. Content management systems are a treasure trove of information since there is a significant amount of insight that can be derived from this unstructured data. The flip side of this is that there is so much enterprise information that a knowledge worker (e.g. a product manager, marketing manager) can quickly become overwhelmed and not make the best use of it.

Authors

Dr. Fern Halper, Partner

Robin Bloor, Partner

Sponsored by IBM

The road to increased business benefit      

Companies run on information. And in today’s dynamic and changing market, businesses
need trusted and actionable information more than ever. In order to be successful,
businesses must maximize their information assets to capture new opportunities and
remain competitive. What does a company need in order to do this?

By Robin Bloor, Partner

Sponsored by Greenplum

Why the era of parallel database is upon us 

It was over 40 years ago that Gordon Moore of Intel suggested that, as chip design
progressed, “the number of transistors that would fit onto an integrated circuit would double every year.” A few years later, in the 1970s, he adjusted his conjecture and got it exactly right, saying that the doubling would occur every 18 months. Moore neither suggested nor believed that this exponential growth in computer power would persist for 40 whole years, but it did. 

By Dr. Fern Halper, Partner

Sponsored by IBM

Content Analytics: Delivering Improved Business Insight and Performance

The technology needed to implement an information management strategy will provide access to and analysis of systems data and the vast amount of unstructured data or “content” sitting in content repositories.

Authors:  Dr. Fern Halper, Partner

Robin Bloor, Partner

Sponsored by IBM

Why there is a need, and how it works When is it important to ascertain a unique, dependable and conclusive identity? In many circumstances, when identity information is used, it isn’t important. If you sell goods or services to someone then the primary interest is that they pay. If payment is guaranteed then the actual identity of the buyer is not too important. You may gather a great deal of information about the buyer’s activities so you can analyze sales history and behavior, to better predict what they might buy in the future, but even then the buyer’s identity is important primarily to enable data gathering and manage the relationship.