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Attivio Bolsters Services Partners Ranks to Unlock All That Unstructured Data
Attivio is determined to help organizations make use of their unstructured data. After all, there’s a lot of it lying around enterprises and throughout the web.
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Choosing The Right Analytics Technology Starts From Understanding Your Data
With minute structural elements, unstructured data emerges as one of the focal points for many enterprises, and has since been identified as a big challenge to current technologies that are in the process of cloud computing. adoption.
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Attivio: Optimizing Information Assets
AIE is built with Active Security—a next-gen solution that has the power to secure access of compounded information across manifold silos and supports the bases of Unified Information Access. AIE was also utilized by Verdasys to create award-winning content inspection and data discovery—through full integration of AIE and Data Guardian.
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The Oscon Data Conference, Devops And The Intersection Of Search And Business Intelligence
Attivio has added new connectors to its technology through integration of its active intelligence engine with data sources such as Hadoop, as well as data warehouses from vendors including HP Vertica, EMC Greenplum, IBM Netezza and Oracle.
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It’s Time To Bring Unstructured Content In From The Cold
Unstructured content makes up around 80% of all corporate data. “This stuff is incredibly valuable and has deep information in it,” said Sid Probstein, chief technology officer at Attivio, a Newton, Mass.-based BI vendor. “It really is the essential missing element of analytics today.”
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Fix Big Data Issues With Big Data Insight: The Promise Of Revolution
R supports SaaS to scale, in part inspired by the NoSQL movement. In its base state, R is an in-memory product, but Revolution’s improved it for use in existing environments, like Attivio.
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There’s More To Hadoop Implementation Than Volume, Says Attivio CTO
Coming off the recent release of version 3.0 of their Unified Information Access Platform, Attivio CTO Sid Probstein drops by theCube at Hadoop World 2011 to discuss how this technology is enabling new products across the board.
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Strive For Tight Integration Between Hadoop, Complimentary Big Data Approaches
There was a ton of great content at Hadoop World 2011 this week, but one point that struck me was the number of vendors present that were not, strictly speaking, part of the core Hadoop ecosystem. They included Teradata Aster Data, Informatica, HP Vertica, Attivio and, inexplicably, Oracle.
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Wikibon Blog and Research
Attivio Shows its Big Data SavvyThe company promises customers “unified information access,” and in order to achieve that Big Data must be included. Attivio is in an advantageous position to execute compared to traditional business intelligence vendors, however, as it has vast experience helping customers build applications that bring together all types of data from all types of sources. Big Data, in a way, is just another data source for Attivio to easily plug into its model.
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Understanding the Nuances Between Unstructured Data and Unstructured Content
Analyzing unstructured data allows users to find patterns hidden deep inside large data sets. Though on a much bigger scale than traditional structured data analysis — hence the requirement for Big Data processing and analytic technologies like Hadoop and MapReduce — unstructured data analysis does not differ that much in terms of the end goal (i.e. finding hidden patterns.)
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A Big Data Manifesto from the Wikibon Community
Make no mistake: Big Data is the new definitive source of competitive advantage across all industries. Enterprises and technology vendors that dismiss Big Data as a passing fad do so at their peril and, in our opinion, will soon find themselves struggling to keep up with more foreword-thinking rivals. For those organizations that understand and embrace the new reality of Big Data, the possibilities for new innovation, improved agility, and increased profitability are nearly endless.
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Attivio briefing to Wikibon analysts
Attivio’s goal is to help customers derive insight from all data available to them, be it structured or unstructured. AIE is a platform – not an application or end-user tool – to build applications that incorporate unstructured and structured data.
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The Future of Enterprise Search and Information
By 2012, unified search platforms that combine both Enterprise and Internet search capabilities along with offering some traditional BI and analytics functionality will be widely adopted by knowledge workers seeking flexibility to tune information access solutions for diverse workloads across a variety of content sources and data types.
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Big Data: Hadoop, Business Analytics and Beyond
the volume and type of data now available to enterprises — and the need to analyze it in near-real time for maximum business value — is growing rapidly thanks to social media/networking, sensored and networked devices, both machine- and human-generated online transactions, and other sources of unstructured and semi-structured data. We call this Big Data.
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Not Your Father’s Data Analytics
The advent of the Web, mobile devices and other technologies has caused a fundamental change to the nature of data. Big Data has important, distinct qualities that differentiate it from “traditional” corporate data. No longer centralized, highly structured and easily manageable, now more than ever data is highly distributed, loosely structured (if structured at all), and increasingly large in volume.
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Navigating the Big Data Vendor Landscape
The Big Data vendor landscape is developing rapidly. A number of vendors have developed their own Hadoop distributions, most based on the Apache open source distribution but with various levels of proprietary customization.
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My 5 Key Lessons Learned at Hadoop World 2011
The ranks of vendors – including exciting start-ups like Digital Reasoning, innovative independent players like Attivio, and time-tested stalwarts like Informatica and Teradata – building Hadoop-related tools and apps is large and diverse, and their numbers will only grow thanks to the availability of yet more seed money via the Big Data Fund and increasing VC interest in all things Big Data.
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Autonomy/Vertica Platform Validates Unified Information Access Strategy
n addition to answering these questions, HP also has to contend with competitors whose platforms were built from the ground-up to process and analyze both unstructured and structured data and, thus, don’t have to tackle integration challenges. The most mature of these is Newton, Mass.-based Attivio.
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SiliconANGLE.tv
Attivio Bridging the Gap Between Content and Data
Dave Vellante of Wikibon sits down at Attivio HQ in Newton, MA with CTO, Sid Probstein to discuss data trends and how Attivio is helping to extract data from the mountain of content.
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Attivio: Users Want Data Delivered In The Right Way
Hadoop allows for the processing of large amounts of varied, complex data, but “users still want the data delivered to them in the right way,” said Sid Probstein, CTO at Attivio, speaking live inside theCUBE at Hadoop World 2011. Probstein discusses the development of the application layer of the Hadoop stack.
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Financial Firm Improves IT Efficiency Via Unified Information Access
Sid Probstein, Attivio CTO, goes live inside theCUBE from Hadoop World 2011 to detail how unified information access allowed one financial services firm to reduce the resolution time on IT tickets from 27 minutes to three minutes.
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