One platform for mining structured and unstructured data: dream or reality?

Although enterprises commonly utilize sophisticated data integration technology and business intelligence tools for analysis of structured data, analysis of unstructured data is a separate process and is often limited to capabilities supported by a search engine. Users have separate and vastly different interfaces for structured and unstructured data: Business Intelligence for structured data and Search for unstructured. This panel will discuss these fundamental and controversial issues: 2.1 Information Integration: how do we “integrate” structured and unstructured data? Data warehousing versus federation; relational, multi-dimensional or other views? 2.2 Content mining: can we source, transform and analyze unstructured data alongside with structured data? 2.3 Can we retain the simplicity of the Search interface and yet provide some of the sophistication of structured data analysis tools?

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