Second, entities are identified in structured data and linked to the entities found in unstructured data.
Unstructured data will be analyzed and correlated to structured data using capabilities like Attivio or Autonomy.
It must also capture images and video in addition to handling more structured data such as forms.
The story started in reports from structured data about sales and ended in the analysis of unstructured documents.
Big Data is comprised of structured data as we traditionally think of it data from a database or spreadsheet.
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Big Data covers both structured data (e.g. that in ERP systems) and unstructured content (e.g. files stored in SharePoint).
The volume of structured data was relatively low, meaning that database archiving would not reduce the storage footprint by much.
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With it, users can acquire and analyze petabyte-sized volumes of multi-structured data in a single platform with a single SQL command.
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While BI has gained mainstream traction in the structured data world, content analytics have not yet in the unstructured content world.
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Of course, all of this works best when you have questions that arise from structured data that can be answered using unstructured data.
This means, for example, merging structured data such as customer demographic and purchase information with unstructured data that customers generate through social media.
The proliferation of smartphones and tablets that became very useful mobile recorders for images, audio and video has exponentially accelerated the structured data creation.
This allows the unstructured data to be presented as structured data.
Third, dashboards or reports are enhanced so that the unstructured information related to the information displayed from the structured data shows up in the user interface.
Standard data mining focuses on structured data and looks at traditional financial forms such as insurance claims and bank account applications to build a risk profile.
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Until the unnatural disaster hit, most digital information was in the form of structured data, such as databases that can be easily sorted and queried and analyzed.
Combining unstructured and structured data will deliver insights, intelligence and actionable guidance that are going to make the most challenging goals today more achievable in the future.
We aggregate and federate all the information both structured data and unstructured-and assemble it into a composite view so that companies can maximize the collective knowledge that exists within the organization.
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Equally important, and of perhaps greater urgency, is the need to derive value from structured data such as lab results, clinical findings and diagnosis that is already being captured in electronic health records.
While Attivio has an elegant system, just the idea of attempting to enhance reporting and dashboards with relevant unstructured content and with structured data seems very powerful and can be done in quick and dirty ways.
Automated Insights (ai), based in Durham, North Carolina, is on a mission to revolutionize the types of content that are powered by structured data, particularly in the world of sports, finance, and real estate.
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Our technology combines a large database of structured data, a real-time feed of stats, and a large database of phrases, and algorithms to tie it all together to produce articles from two to eight paragraphs in length.
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With advances in feature and pattern recognition and other forms of machine intelligence, these video streams will throw off a tremendous amount of structured data, the use of which we will have no knowledge of or control over.
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Our engineered systems help customers take unstructured data and structured data, and integrate it simply and easily into systems that can live either in the cloud or on premise or a combination of both whatever approach the customer prefers.
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In addition, by embedding security and privacy controls into structured data and metadata, data owners can focus more effort on ensuring the safe and secure delivery of data to the end customer and fewer resources on securing the device that will receive the data.
Pittman hopes to sell product licenses to companies and institutions that need help mapping their mountains of structured data, such as an Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) database, as well as unstructured data such as e-mail and instant messages.
Last year we did hit approximately 1 zettabyte (one trillion gigabyte) of data in the public web and the speed by which new data is created continues to accelerate, including unstructured data in the form of text, semi-structured data from M2M communication and structured data in transactional business applications.
The moral of this story is that information hoarding in order to leverage Big Data tools may work in the structured data world, but will not work in the broader information world that includes unstructured content (the Word file, PowerPoint presentations, CAD files, audio files, and other large data types that dominate corporate information stores).
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Unstructured data is interesting and contains information we want to report on and want to integrate with other (structured) data.
Beyond data volume, a key concern was data integration of structured and unstructured data.
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