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Text analytics and text mining

• June 07, 2010 07 Jun'10

  Text analytics could help bridge data divide: But is IT ready?

  Text analytics tools can eliminate the barrier between structured data and unstructured content. But is IT ready for the text analytics revolution?

• June 03, 2010 03 Jun'10

  Text analytics tools require serious devotion to customers

  Text analytics tools are useless without the will to respond to customers’ needs, according to one text analytics software user.

• April 19, 2010 19 Apr'10

  Goodnight: SAS data analytics offers much more than BI from IBM, SAP

  In this exclusive interview, SAS Institute CEO Dr. Jim Goodnight says his company’s data analytics expertise separates it from BI competitors SAP and IBM.

• April 12, 2010 12 Apr'10

  SAS unveils social media analytics suite

  SAS has released an on-demand social media analytics suite that the vendor says will help companies track and understand consumer sentiment.

• June 03, 2009 03 Jun'09

  Text analytics market small but growing amid recession, according to IDC

  At this year's Text Analytics summit, companies like Biogen Idec showed why the text analytics market is growing and how it can help improve operations and save money.

• June 19, 2008 19 Jun'08

  Calculating text analytics ROI: Start small and focus on customer data

  Calculating the return on investment (ROI) and building a business case for text analytics to analyze unstructured content like emails, PDFs and blogs is challenging but worthwhile, as Intuit found.

• May 13, 2008 13 May'08

  Text Analytics Accuracy: Requirements and Reality

  Accuracy is a frequent concern when working with text; the accuracy question is similar to the data quality issue in business intelligence and data warehousing.

• May 08, 2008 08 May'08

  Text mining tools and prediction markets extract insight from unstructured data

  Organizations too often ignore unstructured data when making high-level, strategic decisions. Text-mining and prediction-market tools can help.

• February 22, 2008 22 Feb'08

  Unlocking and integrating unstructured data, with Bill Inmon

  Bill Inmon explains the importance of unstructured data and offers tips for accessing and integrating it.

• January 22, 2008 22 Jan'08

  Statistics, Experimentation, Machine Learning, Open Source, and Business Intelligence

  In this interview, author John Maindonald discusses the evolution of statistical analysis, the convergence of traditional statistics with data mining/machine learning, and the benefits of randomization and experimental techniques.

• February 13, 2007 13 Feb'07

  Enterprise search platforms: Seven evaluation tips

  Enterprise search platforms are a far cry from simple search engines. An IDC analyst and an experienced information expert share tips for evaluating enterprise search technology.

• December 18, 2006 18 Dec'06

  IBM's free OmniFind Yahoo edition: In search of "the catch"

  The new IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition enterprise search tool indexes up to 500,000 files and is easy enough for a reporter to install and use. And, it's free. So, what's the catch?

• June 15, 2006 15 Jun'06

  Business intelligence search: Five myths

  Business intelligence software vendors say search can get BI information to more users. As business intelligence and search converge, five myths have emerged.

• November 09, 2005 09 Nov'05

  IBM says that companies need to mine blogs, wikis for vital business data

  Companies will need search and data mining technologies to obtain business-critical information from the explosion of blogs, wikis and other Web-based collaborative schemes.

• November 03, 2005 03 Nov'05

  IBM finds match in search company

  With its purchase of iPhrase, IBM is rapidly rounding out its unstructured information technology portfolio.