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August 23, 2006
Structured and unstructured information
One of the trends in business intelligence that people talk about is how structured (numbers) and unstructured (text) data is coming together in business intelligence - and make a big deal out of this.
It's funny how this is such a big deal, because it shouldn't be. It really just is a function of the legacy BI systems out there today relying on legacy OLAP structures that doesn't handle anything but pre-configured dimensional
structures very well (hmmm that sounded technical - just think "complicated structures that lock you in").
We've had a lot of fun attacking problems dealing with both text and numbers - for example in Intelligence applications. We're proud of our relationship
with In-Q-Tel (http://www.in-q-tel.org) - you should check out the presentation done at our user conference which paints a great picture of how visualization, text, and numbers come together. Without really thinking about text vs. data - you just browse.
Visit this page and click the Troy Pearsall presentation among the keynotes.
http://www.spotfire.com/events/userconference2004/
Posted by Christopher Ahlberg at August 23, 2006 9:45 PM
