Data Unification with Xngage
Data is today’s currency, but what good is a currency if it is foreign to the country in which you are living? Or differently put, what good is data without…
unstructured data
IDC Report: Unified Search & Text Analytics are Proven Drivers of KM Success
In 2001, market intelligence firm IDC issued a landmark study on the impacts of information access in the workplace, commenting that: “Timely access to critical information separates the winners from…
The Long Tail of Collective Knowledge and Big Data
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming APQC conference on Knowledge Management, about how KM programs can and should leverage the Long Tail of Collective Knowledge. Often, traditional knowledge management programs…
Understanding the Building Blocks of Insight
Our latest eBook, “2012 Guide to an Insightfull Customer-Centric Organization,” helps organizations understand how to leverage the Insight inside their enterprise and social data and move towards a more customer-centric…
The Nature of Data
Like all persons, places and things, data has certain characteristics. A child may be mercurial, for example, but data is far more so – it is everywhere at once. Perhaps…
Uncovering Actionable Intelligence to Eliminate the Insight Deficit
It’s no secret that data is growing in size and complexity; even more importantly, the vast majority of this data is unstructured, making it difficult to categorize, understand and manipulate.…
Enterprise Search – Thoughts on Organizational Impediments to a Full Implementation
I just read an excellent article by Michael Healey at InformationWeek titled, “Go Rogue with Enterprise Search.” In this article, Michael makes the point that a relatively small percentage of…