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Posted by: Bil Khan October 25, 2011  Defining Collaboration and Compliance in the Context of the Processes—a Mandate!!!
The discussion between structured data and unstructured content is an old one and is becoming more and more irrelevant as the lines between the two keep getting blurred. There’s a growing realization that simply managing the exponential growth in unstructured content (i.e. emails, Word, PPT, PDF, video, and audio files, etc.) doesn’t produce an observable impact in the absence of business relevance. It’s like telling your employees to work for the next year on a huge project that …
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Posted by: Kristin McMahon August 16, 2011  Twitter feeds and Facebook status updates—some of us see and interact with them every day. If you’re in business, do you ever find yourself wanting to take those thousands of free-form, unstructured little nuggets of sentiment and opinions about your event, competition, or product launch (think about the tweet storm that goes on when Apple releases a product) and aggregate, analyze, and use them to influence your next move? Would harnessing all that information make your business better?
Lassoing Unstructured Data: The Cool Factor
I don’t …
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