Unstructured Content News & Articles

It’s no secret that companies have a lot of data coming in and going out. From email to documents to archived records, most companies have a general idea where it is stored and what it contains. And even though knowing is half the battle, being unable to successfully account for all of it, can leave companies unprepared and at risk.

Another attempt to track all that scary unstructured content lurking in the corners of every self-respecting enterprise content management system is the recently released, customizable Zoogma search engine.

If it actually does what it says it does, Zoogma targets buried market and document intelligence as well as integrates with other data sources to collect, analyze and produce the most relevant data in response to search queries.

It does this by finding clues in unstructured text and making those clues findable, its developers, Virginia-based Cormine Data Intelligence says.

eDiscovery and storage solutions provider Digital Reef (news, site) has announced its new president and CEO.

Bob Lentz, an established veteran of the technology industry will lend his experience with growing innovative startups in highly competitive market segments in an effort to oversee and market Digital Reef's success. Effective immediately, Mr. Lentz will assume the presidency and role of CEO allowing Digital Reef's founder Steve Akers the time to spend on product innovation, while assuming the role of CTO.

Lentz sees data management as a priority, saying that "unstructured content represents both the lion’s share of enterprise data and the most difficult data management challenge.” Digital Reef offers a data management platform, offering many eDiscovery solutions that can be used across a wide variety of platforms and environments. Additional solutions include data discovery for risk mitigation, compliance and automated data discovery and classification tools that enable storage reclamation.

Over the past few months, Digital Reef launched the Digital Reef Partner Program, which makes unstructured data management more accessible to companies that can complement their services with Digital Reef technology solutions. With FAST, Mimosa and EntropySoft among the featured partners, customers will be looking to Mr. Lentz to provide the leadership necessary to promote and support forthcoming partnerships.

Here at CMSWire, we look forward to seeing what Mr. Lentz will bring to Digital Reef's expansive data management solutions.

Just recently we commented on the partnership between Digital Reef and FAST, the search technology and Microsoft subsidiary. It seemed to go so well, that Digital Reef (news, site) has announced another partnership, this time with Mimosa.

Mimosa (news, site) works to implement extensive eDiscovery solutions within the enterprise. Additionally, their Nearpoint archiving solution just joined the ranks of visionary, according to Gartner.

Reefs by nature are a nutrient-sharing organism; relying on other habitats for an exchange of nitrogen and vegetation. Perhaps coral reefs were the inspiration for Digital Reef's new Partner Program.

The Digital Reef Partner Program makes unstructured data management more accessible to companies that can complement their services with Digital Reef technology solutions. This might seem like a win-win situation for Digital Reef (news, site), who after all, secure the customer base of companies while demonstrating their expertise with managing unstructured data.

But it can also benefit those in the enterprise who desperately seek the technology and scalability of a single platform. As well, they benefit from search, analytics, automatic data classification and data management functionalities, which can only make their workflows and document management processes run that much more efficiently.

The majority of data on the web and elsewhere is unstructured, meaning that you cannot make assumptions that easily break the data down into components for processing. So what do you do when you need to process such information?

OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (news, site), has approved Version 1.0 of the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA), which allows some level of structure to be assigned to the documents, email, speech, images and video produced during human communication.

So you have a ton of information residing in one or more content repositories and you are having a heck of a time finding what you need to get your work done. Guess that Document Management system you invested in just isn't cutting it for you. Here's a product that will help you classify and categorize all that information -- and it supports over 30 languages to boot -- SAS Content Categorization.