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Is better search the answers?

Publication: EContent
Publication Date: 01-JUL-04
Format: Online - approximately 839 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The answer is "yes" for users that can afford to read volumes of information, but "no" for organizations that increasingly rely on business intelligence systems.

Both search and business intelligence handle text information in a simple way--search forces the user to read it, and business...

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...intelligence applications largely ignore it. When text becomes too voluminous to systematically read, but too valuable to ignore, a text-processing strategy becomes necessary. This is where search breaks down and where business intelligence has yet to deliver. Neither has proven effective for processing text in order to trigger, or systematically support, organizational responses.

Text analytics is filling the void by structuring unstructured text and applying analytics in lieu of rote review and reading. More importantly, text analytics is a...

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